PARIS — A look at 10 Canadian athletes to watch in the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8.
Five-time Paralympic freestyle champion and double gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympics, the 27-year-old from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., holds world records in three freestyle events in the S10 classification . Rivard's first race is the 50-metre freestyle Thursday.A survivor of a bus crash that killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in 2018, the 24-year-old from Humboldt, Sask., is Canada's lone para rower in Paris.
Five-time world champion won Paralympic silver in 2016 in the sport's Paralympic debut and bronze in Tokyo. The 26-year-old Calgarian, who was born with bilateral radial club hands, took bronze in a Paris test event in 2023. Para triathlon is a 750-metre swim, a 20-kilometre cycle and a five-kilometre run. Daniel races Sunday.Ranked No. 2 in the world in women's singles and also second in pairs with fellow Montrealer Iulian Ciobanu, Levine is primed for a podium in the wheelchair sport.
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