Hands Free David Lega's inspiring journey

David Lega was born in 1973 with all the odds against him. He was paralysed and, according to the doctors, he would never even be able to sit without help. Twenty-two years later, he took his first world swimming record. During his career as a disabled swimmer, David took a total of 14 world records and won three World Championship Gold Medals. He retired from his outstanding career after the Sydney Paralympic Games in 2000. The successful swimmer became an even more successful public speaker. With humour, warmth, self-detachment and much joie-de-vivre, David Lega gives talks about positive thinking, leadership and the art of stretching one’s own limits. In 2004 he was named as the Speaker of the Year by the Swedish Event Academy. The sought-after speaker has now become an acknowledged leader. In 2005, the International Junior Chamber of Commerce selected David Lega to receive an Outstanding Young Person of the World award. This is an honorary distinction that has, in the past, been awarded to Orson Welles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leonard Bernstein, John F. Kennedy, Wayne Gretzky and Elvis Presley. Petter Karlsson, born in 1960, Swedish author of several bestselling books, published in both Swedish and English.