Name: Josh Turek
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Classification: 3.5
Height: 5-11
DOB: 4/12/1979
Birthplace: Council Bluffs, Iowa
Hometown: Council Bluffs, Iowa
High School: Abraham Lincoln High School (Council Bluffs, Iowa) ‘97
College: Southwest Minnesota State University '02, Political Science
Paralympic Experience
- Four-time Paralympian (2004, 2012, 2016, 2020); Three-time Paralympic medalist (2 golds, 1 bronze)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, gold
- Paralympic Games Rio 2016 , gold
- Paralympic Games London 2012 , bronze
- Paralympic Games Athens 2004, 7th
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2014 – silver
- Years of competition: 2014
- Medals: 1 (silver)
- Silver – 2014
Personal:
Raised in a basketball family...Son of John and Luellen Turek...Married to Jaralon...Has four siblings, Ulette Bonner, Rachell, John and Elisha...Shoots basketball every day for an hour and lifts four times a week...Continued the tradition of playing the sport at the highest level at Southwest Minnesota State University as the program’s most prolific scorer in history...He, his brother John, and sister Elisha, all played collegiately across the United States and professionally in Europe...Was first introduced to the sport through a wheelchair sports camp in Omaha, Nebraska...Made his first national team in 2004 before his Paralympic Games debut in Athens later that year
