Canada's Austin Smeenk celebrates after winning gold in the men's T34 800 metres at the Paris Paralympics. Canadian athletes doubled their gold medal total from five at Tokyo 2020 to 10 at these Games.
Canada's Austin Smeenk celebrates after winning gold in the men's T34 800 metres at the Paris Paralympics. Canadian athletes doubled their gold medal total from five at Tokyo 2020 to 10 at these Games. What looked like a bounce back for Canada at the Paralympic Games was more of a return to form.
"I would say it's a bit of a bounce forward," Canadian Paralympic Committee chief executive officer Karen O'Neill said Sunday. "They had a really good mix of new and more veteran athletes being able to perform on the highest stage," said CPC chief sport officer Catherine Gosselin-Despres. Tokyo's Paralympic Games were delayed from 2020 to 2021 and held without spectators because of the pandemic."Just making the team was a monumental task and then racing some of the best athletes in the world and placing among them to be the best, it's just been absolutely insane," the 20-year-old said.
The women's sitting volleyball team's bronze was Canada's first Paralympic medal in a team sport since London in 2012.Canada captures 1st ever sitting volleyball medal at a ParalympicsCanada defeats Brazil 3-0 to win the sitting volleyball women's bronze medal over Brazil Saturday in Paris.A common theme among Canadian medallists was they started out in a different para sport before switching to one in which they excelled.
"Like most of the top nations in world, we rely a little bit on athlete transfer," she explained. "Many athletes start in a sport and either have a dual sport, or change to a sport where they're going to be more successful. You can grow your medal-potential group.
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