Mike

Schultz

Quick Facts

• Speciality: Banked Slalom and Snowboard Cross
• Son of Scott Schultz and Carrie Johnson
• Married to Sara Schultz
• Has one daughter, Lauren
• The entire U.S. Paralympic snowboard team in the LL-1 and LL-2 classes uses his company's prosthetic knee (Moto Knee) and foot (Versa Foot)
• Hobbies include motocross, mountain biking and horseback riding

Biographical Information

Mike Schultz grew up on a farm in Minnesota racing everything from BMX bikes to snowmobiles. He also developed a second passion in life behind racing which was designing and creating things, something his father helped nurtured by teaching him to weld at age 10. In 2008, while Schultz was competing in a professional snow-cross race, he drifted off course, flying off his snowmobile and landing on his left leg. He sustained a severe compound fracture to his knee, after multiple surgeries, had his leg amputated above the knee. Mixing his background in action sports with his passion for creating things, he developed and patented Moto Knee and other prosthetics, which was able to absorb the amount of impact needed to be an action sport athlete, under his new company, BioDapt.

In 2010, Schultz became the first person to win a gold medal at the Summer and Winter X Games in adaptive motocross and snowmobile cross, respectively. Taking up snowboarding after the accident, Schultz joined the U.S. Para Snowboard Team in 2015 and made his Paralympic debut at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games winning gold in snowboard cross and silver in banked slalom. Today about 95% of the top Paralympic lower-limb snowboard athletes use BioDapt's products including the entire U.S. Paralympic snowboard team.

When he is not on the snow, Schultz spends time on his Minnesota farm riding a dirtbike or one of six horses and spending with his wife, Sara, and daughter, Lauren.

Paralympic Experience

• 2-time Paralympian; 3-time Paralympic medalist (1 gold, 2 silver)
  • Paralympic Games Beijing 2022, silver (Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men), 5th (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)
  • Paralympic Games Pyeongchang 2018, gold (Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men), silver (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2025 – 4th (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men), 9th (Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)
• Years of participation: Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men 2017, 2019, 2022, 2025; Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025; Dual Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men 2023; Dual Banked Slalom - Team - Men 2023; Snowboard Cross Team Event - Men 2019, 2022
• Medals: 7 (1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Gold – 2019 (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)
  • Silver – 2023 (Dual Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men); 2022 (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men, Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men); 2017 (Banked Slalom - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)
  • Bronze – 2023 (Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men); 2019 (Snowboard Cross - Lower Limb 1 Impaired - Men)