Philippe corizon biography of william hill

French athlete (born 1968)

Philippe Croizon (born 1968) is a French athlete and the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel and to run the Rally Dakar.^[1]

Accident

His amputations were required due to a severe electric shock accident which occurred in March 1994.^[2] At the time, Croizon was employed as a steelworker at the foundry of Poitou,^[3] 26 years old and married, with one son; his wife was expecting a second child.^[3] At his home in Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse, Vienne, while standing on a metal ladder on the roof to work on a television antenna, Croizon received a severe electric shock from a high-voltage power line which earthed (grounded) through the ladder,^[2][3] to which he became adhered.

Twenty minutes passed before a neighbour could raise the alarm. He was hospitalized in Tour