MONUM’ helps and supports the BMX rider Gustavs Petersilis, who radically changed his life as a result of a severe fall 01.10.2014
Last year on 23rd of February in Kleisti BMX track the young, talented Latvian rider Gustavs Pētersīlis suffered a severe injury, which radically changed his life.
Having suffered a fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra, the legs of Pētersīlis were paralyzed, and now he spends his days in a wheelchair. Before the tragedy the athlete was hoping to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as he had been included in the Latvian Olympic team. Now he will try to get to the Paralympic Games in Rio.