2022.02.27 英国残奥协会主席尼克-韦伯恩教授

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Professor Nick Webborn has chaired the British Paralympic Association since 2017. He is a world-leading expert on Paralympic sports medicine and the most widely-published author on the subject. He has attended 11 Paralympic and one Olympic Games.

He was born in Swansea in 1956, trained as a doctor in London and joined the RAF as a junior medical officer. In 1981 he was playing in an RAF rugby match when a mistimed opposition tackle left him with a severe spinal injury. After many months of treatment and rehabilitation, which he now describes as 'long and tortuous,' he wanted to return to work in medicine, but found that there was a reluctance to employ a doctor with a disability.

He worked as a GP and also pursued an interest in sports medicine, leading to research in this area and an academic role. When he saw the medical support available for Olympic athletes, he felt strongly that para-athletes deserved the same level of specialist help - especially as many also had to deal with underlying problems that their Olympic peers did not face. His pioneering research has made Paralympic sport safer for athletes, and has driven the development of sports medicine in areas such as rehabilitation. He also represented Great Britain in wheelchair tennis in 2005.

Nick is Professor of Sport and Exercise Medicine at the University of Brighton.


尼克-韦伯恩教授自2017年以来一直担任英国残奥会的主席。他是世界上领先的残奥会运动医学专家，也是在该领域发表文章最多的作者。他曾参加过11届残奥会和一届奥运会。

他于1956年出生于斯旺西，在伦敦接受过医生培训，并加入英国皇家空军，成为一名初级医务人员。1981年，他在参加皇家空军的橄榄球比赛时，对手一次错误的擒抱使他的脊柱严重受伤。经过许多个月的治疗和康复，他现在描述为 "漫长而曲折"，他想回到医学界工作，但发现人们不愿意雇用一名残疾医生。

他当过全科医生，也对运动医学感兴趣，从而在这一领域进行研究并担任学术职务。当他看到为奥运选手提供的医疗支持时，他强烈地感觉到，残疾人运动员应该得到同样水平的专家帮助--特别是许多人还必须处理他们的奥运同龄人没有面对的潜在问题。他的开创性研究使残奥会运动对运动员更加安全，并推动了运动医学在康复等领域的发展。他还在2005年代表英国参加了轮椅网球比赛。

尼克是布莱顿大学的体育和运动医学教授。