Antoine COLLOMB-PATTON
Nickname: ACP
Age: 28 years old
Born on 22/02/1995 in Annecy
2 clubs, one handisport and one valid: Handisport Annecien / Club des sports de la Clusaz
Specialty: Cross country skiing

I was born deaf. For many hearing people, this total or partial loss of senses implies learning sign language.
Personally, I was born "profoundly" deaf in a family of hearing people. My hearing loss is close to total.
This discovery, when I was one year old, implied the need to learn to communicate.
Two possible choices for this:
- The learning of a language in its own right, also implying from my entourage its learning:
LSF, French sign language.
- Learning a gestural technique associated with lip movement, while speaking in the mother tongue: the LPC, completed spoken language.
It is this second choice that I used on a daily basis. Combined with speech therapy and an adapted hearing aid, stimulating my low level of hearing, this allowed me to speak and adapt to the world of hearing people.

That is to say that I manufacture, repair, modify and maintain molds for plastic injection for the medical cosmetics aeronautics automotive food sport.
Since 2020 I am also an athlete of the French handisport team for deaf people in cross-country skiing (skating and classic).
Sport for me has always been a way to unwind, to change my mind during my childhood with deafness and that's how I got involved in sport. I like competition very much and I used to compete a lot with my school and my club.

I had started cross country skiing at the age of 5 years old with the school but not in the competition at that time I started alpine skiing in pre club.
I want to show people that with any disability you can do it, it gives you strength for the future!
My mantra : "Keep going, don't give up anything to go further".

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