Michael Shelton

Michael Shelton is a British sportsman who competed at the Summer Paralympic Games five times between 1960 and 1976, in snooker and other sports. He won six Paralympic medals, four gold, one silver and one bronze, and also took gold at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games. He came from Newstead in Nottinghamshire and worked as a miner at Newstead Colliery until a roof fall in 1958 injured his back and left him paralysed from the waist down. In 1969 he married Iris Turner, a nursing sister from his hospital ward. He played for the Lodge Moor Hospital paraplegic snooker team, which in 1974 was refused entry to the Sheffield and District Works Sports Association league before being given a place in the Sheffield Social Snooker League.