Stephen Arsenault (born September 6, 1988) is a Canadian

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player. Arsenault was born in

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to Joe and Jill Arsenault. He has

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of the

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. He began his sledge hockey career in 2004 in Edmonton with the Paralympic Sports Association Dogs. He also played for the Edmonton Impact sledge hockey team. He took a hiatus from sledge hockey from 2007 to 2010, a timespan in which his mother died and his father was seriously injured in a workplace accident which resulted in

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of a leg. With the Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team, He won a gold medal at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in 2011, 2013, 2017 and a silver in 2012. He also competed in the

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with the Canadian national team, winning a bronze in the sledge hockey tournament. He is currently General Manager and Head Coach of the Gibbons Pioneers Junior A team. He resides in

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. He is no longer a personal trainer.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arsenault, Steve 1988 births Living people Canadian sledge hockey players Paralympic sledge hockey players for Canada Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada Ice sledge hockey players at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Para ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic medalists in sledge hockey Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ontario