Colt Wynn

Who is Colt Wynn?

Colt Wynn is an American professional bodybuilder who competes in the wheelchair tournaments for paraplegic athletes.

In November 1999, when he was 13, Wynn fell 14 feet from a deer hunting stand in a tree near his family home in Fleming, Ohio. The fall broke his back, leaving him paralyzed. During his initial hospitalization, he lost 38 pounds. As part of his rehabilitation, he took up weight lifting to strengthen his upper body. He would later state that his determination to use weight lifting as physical therapy enabled him to leave his hospital three weeks ahead of schedule.

Wynn would later recall that he refused to be defined by his paralysis. When his father told him, "Son, we all learn to live with this disability," Wynn replied:"Dad, I'm not disabled. I'm just rearranged. I'm still Colt Wynn."

Wynn initially sought to concentrate on powerlifting. "I remember the first powerlifting competition I did," he told an interviewer. "I was the only disabled kid in a class of 20 guys. I won the 135-pound weight class, just by five pounds on the bench. From there, it branched off into bodybuilding."

Within three years of his accident, Wynn competed in his first bodybuilding championship, the 2002 NPC Wheelchair Nationals, where he won first place in the middleweight division. He won the same division again in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007, and won the 2008 light-heavyweight class. He also won the overall title for the 2003, 2006 and 2008 NPC Wheelchair Nationals. In 2007, he won the IFBB Pro Wheelchair Nationals, earning his professional bodybuilding card.