Name: Mark Mann

Sport: Snowboarding

Discipline(s): Snowboarding

Event(s): Snowboardcross, Banked Slalom

Classification: SB-LL1

Height: 6-4

Weight: 190

DOB: 7/9/1987

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minn.

Hometown: Eden Prairie, Minn.

College: Bethel University '10, Business/Entrepreneurship

Paralympic Experience

• One-time Paralympian (2018)
• PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, 5th (snowboardcross), 8th (banked slalom)

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2017 – bronze (snowboardcross), 4th (banked slalom)
• Years of Participation: 2017
• Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
• Bronze: 2017 (snowboardcross)

Personal: Mann has always been an advocate for action sports growing up having participated in wakeboarding, and wake surfing. In 2013, he was involved in a boating accident that resulted in the amputation of both of his legs below the knee, but that didn't slow him down. As an avid snowboarder growing up, he immediately took up the sport once again. Since making his Para snowboarding debut, Mann has made his mark on the national and international stage...Hobbies include playing basketball, wake surfing, and road and mountain biking...Son of Mark and Nance Mann...Has three siblings: Anna, Joe and Olivia...Married to Rachael Mann...Serves as a board member for Wiggle Your Toes, a non-profit organization in Bloomington, Minnesota, that offers support to people who have limb deficiencies or have suffered limb loss.