Stefan Trofan | |
Sport: | Para table tennis |
Disability: | Spinal cord injury |
Disability Class: | C3 |
Birth Date: | 1962 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Oldham, United Kingdom |
Retired: | 2005 |
Death Place: | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Stefan Trofan (4 April 1962[1] – 1 September 2008) was a former British para table tennis player. In his childhood years, he was very interested in football and was a keen footballer, he was paralysed from the waist down aged 17 in a bike accident. He played alongside Neil Robinson and James Rawson in table tennis team events internationally. He coached Great Britain's Paralympic table tennis team for the 2008 Summer Paralympics.[2]
He died of oesophageal cancer on 21 August 2008 in Sheffield surrounded by family, days before the Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.[3] [4]