On Thursday morning, Athletics Canada nominated 20 athletes to constitute Canada in para athletics on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games. The workforce is composed of 9 returnees and 11 athletes making their Paralympic debut. The 2024 Paralympic Video games will start on Aug. 28 and run till Sept. 8.
The workforce contains 5 Paralympic medallists, led through Brent Lakatos, who has received 11 medals over his first 5 Paralympic Video games. Lakatos received 4 silver medals in Tokyo in 2021, the place he was once Canada’s ultimate rite flag bearer.
Victoria’s Nate Riech is any other returning medallist, having a look to shield his Paralympic T37/38 1,500 metres identify in Paris. He’s additionally a two-time international champion within the match, having received gold on the 2019 and 2023 International Para Athletics Championships. “Whats up, international. Let’s get it going. Let’s run the gauntlet. I welcome all comers and I stay up for difficult myself,” Riech mentioned in a press free up.
Toronto’s Marissa Papaconstantinou heads to her 3rd Paralympic Video games, having received bronze within the girls’s T64 100 metres in Tokyo. She earned bronze in that very same match, in addition to bronze within the girls’s T64 200 metres, on the 2023 International Para Athletics Championships closing 12 months.
Bianca Borgella is among the 11 Canadian para athletes making her debut, along with her points of interest at the podium. She received silver within the T13 200 metres and bronze within the T13 100 metres ultimately 12 months’s International Para Athletics Championships. “It’s lovely implausible. Younger Bianca wouldn’t have idea that she would pass to the Paralympics. This 12 months, I’m hoping to move with my thoughts transparent and confidently get a medal–arms crossed,” mentioned Borgella.
Noah Vucsics is any other debutant who received silver within the males’s T20 lengthy leap on the 2023 International Para Athletics Championships. He’s the primary T20 athlete to compete for Canada in para-athletics. “The purpose is to check out and in finding the rostrum, like I did closing 12 months,” mentioned Vucsics in an interview.
Paris 2024 Canadian Paralympic Crew
| Athlete Identify | Match(s) | Fatherland | Fatherland Province | Membership | Trainer Identify | Department |
| Amanda Rummery | Ladies’s T46 400m | Edmonton | AB | Inexperienced and Gold Monitor & Box Membership | Wes & Christie Moerman | AB |
| Anthony Bouchard | Males’s T52 100m Males’s T52 400m |
Quebec | QC | C. A. Université Laval | Natalie Seguin | QC |
| Austin Smeenk | Males’s T34 100m Males’s T34 800m |
Oakville | ON | Vic Town Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |
| Ashlyn Renneberg | Ladies’s T13 Javelin | Saskatoon | SK | Saskatoon Monitor and Box Membership | Tyrell Sawatzky | SK |
| Bianca Borgella | Ladies’s T13 100m | Ottawa | ON | Ottawa Lions | Yolande Jones | ON |
| Brent Lakatos | Males’s T53 400m Males’s T53 800m Males’s T53 1500m Males’s T53 5000m |
Dorval | QC | Crimson Velvet Racing Crew | Arno Mul | QC |
| Cody Fournie | Males’s T51 100m Males’s T51 200m |
Victoria | BC | Vic Town Elite | Geoff Harris | BC |
| Charlotte Bolton | Ladies’s F41 Discus Ladies’s F41 Shot Put |
Tillsonburg | ON | SISU Throws Membership | Richard Parkinson | ON |
| Greg Stewart | Males’s F46 Shot Put | Kamloops | BC | Kamloops Monitor & Box Membership | Patrick Waters | BC |
| Guillaume Ouellet | Males’s T13 5000m | Victoriaville | QC | Membership Citius | Dany Racine | QC |
| Jesse Zesseu | Males’s F37 Discus | Toronto | ON | Royal Town Athletics Membership | Paul Galas | ON |
| Julia Hanes | Ladies’s F33 Shot Put Ladies’s F33 Javelin |
LaSalle | ON | WC Race Collection | Agnes Esser | BC |
| Katie Pegg | Ladies’s F46 Shot Put | Scarborough | ON | Saint Marys College | Jodi Langley | NS |
| Keegan Gaunt | Ladies’s T13 400m Ladies’s T13 1500m |
Thunder Bay | ON | Vic Town Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |
| Marissa Papaconstatinou | Ladies’s T64 100m Ladies’s T64 200m |
Toronto | ON | Toronto Racers Athletic Membership | Bob Westman | ON |
| Nate Riech | Males’s T38 1500m | Victoria | BC | Vic Town Elite | Heather Hennigar | BC |
| Noah Vucsics | Males’s T20 Lengthy Bounce | Calgary | AB | U of C Athletics | Jane Kolodnicki | AB |
| Renee Foessel | Ladies’s F38 Discus | Barrie | ON | Cruisers Sports activities | Ken Corridor | ON |
| Sheriauna Haase | Ladies’s T47 100m Ladies’s T47 200m |
Toronto | ON | Toronto Racers Athletic Membership | Bob Westman | ON |
| Zachary Gingras | Males’s T38 400m | Markam | ON | Vic Town Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |