{"id":805001,"date":"2020-03-07T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380137"},"modified":"2020-03-07T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:30:06","slug":"summit-para-snowboarder-joe-pleban-nominated-for-americas-paralympic-athlete-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-para-snowboarder-joe-pleban-nominated-for-americas-paralympic-athlete-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit para snowboarder Joe Pleban nominated for Americas Paralympic athlete of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit County local adaptive snowboarder Joe Pleban races in Big White, Canada on Feb. 13.<\/strong>
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COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 Joe Pleban of Silverthorne has been nominated for Athlete of the Month honors for February 2020 by the Americas Paralympic Committee.<\/p>\n

The para snowboarder Pleban was one of five athletes from North and South America to be nominated for the award. Pleban was the United States\u2019 sole nominee for the honor thanks to his impressive performance at the 2020 World Para Snowboard Nor Am last month in Big White, Canada, where Pleban won two silver medals in snowboard cross.<\/p>\n

The result came shortly after Pleban was the fastest local at last month\u2019s Dew Tour adaptive banked slalom competition at Copper Mountain Resort, where he earned seventh place. Earlier this season, Pleban had top-10 success at World Cup events, including a bronze medal in snowboard cross in Pyha, Finland.<\/p>\n

Along with Pleban, other nominees were Herbert Aceituno, a powerlifter from El Salvador; Maria Antonieta Ortiz, a powerlifter from Chile; taekwondo athlete Gersson Mejia of Guatemala; and Brazilian runner Vanessa Cristina de Souza.<\/p>\n

Pleban, a member of the Adaptive Action Sports para-snowboard family based out of Copper Mountain Resort, has become one of the country\u2019s best adaptive snowboarders after a rare joint disease resulted in the amputation of his left foot several years ago.<\/p>\n

Nominations were compiled from submissions by various national Paralympic committees. For more information and to vote, visit: Paralympic.org\/Americas-Paralympic-Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summit County local adaptive snowboarder Joe Pleban races in Big White, Canada on Feb. 13.Courtesy Andrew Jay COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 Joe Pleban of Silverthorne has been nominated for Athlete of the Month honors for February 2020 by the Americas Paralympic Committee. The para snowboarder Pleban was one of five athletes from North and South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 18:49:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}