On Thursday morning, Athletics Canada nominated 20 athletes to symbolize Canada in para athletics on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games. The workforce consists 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 by Brent Lakatos, who has gained 11 medals over his first 5 Paralympic Video games. Lakatos gained 4 silver medals in Tokyo in 2021, the place he was Canada’s closing ceremony flag bearer.
Victoria’s Nate Riech is one other returning medallist, seeking to defend his Paralympic T37/38 1,500 metres title in Paris. He’s additionally a two-time world champion within the occasion, having gained gold on the 2019 and 2023 World Para Athletics Championships. “Hey, world. Let’s get it going. Let’s run the gauntlet. I welcome all comers and I look ahead to difficult myself,” Riech mentioned in a press launch.
Toronto’s Marissa Papaconstantinou heads to her third Paralympic Video games, having gained bronze within the ladies’s T64 100 metres in Tokyo. She earned bronze in that very same occasion, in addition to bronze within the ladies’s T64 200 metres, on the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships final yr.
Bianca Borgella is without doubt one of the 11 Canadian para athletes making her debut, along with her sights on the rostrum. She gained silver within the T13 200 metres and bronze within the T13 100 metres ultimately yr’s World Para Athletics Championships. “It’s fairly unbelievable. Younger Bianca wouldn’t have thought that she would go to the Paralympics. This yr, I’m hoping to go along with my thoughts clear and hopefully get a medal–fingers crossed,” mentioned Borgella.
Noah Vucsics is one other debutant who gained silver within the males’s T20 lengthy bounce on the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships. He’s the primary T20 athlete to compete for Canada in para-athletics. “The purpose is to try to discover the rostrum, like I did final yr,” mentioned Vucsics in an interview.
Paris 2024 Canadian Paralympic Workforce
| Athlete Identify | Occasion(s) | Hometown | Hometown Province | Membership | Coach Identify | Department |
| Amanda Rummery | Girls’s T46 400m | Edmonton | AB | Inexperienced and Gold Monitor & Discipline 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 Metropolis Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |
| Ashlyn Renneberg | Girls’s T13 Javelin | Saskatoon | SK | Saskatoon Monitor and Discipline Membership | Tyrell Sawatzky | SK |
| Bianca Borgella | Girls’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 | Purple Velvet Racing Workforce | Arno Mul | QC |
| Cody Fournie | Males’s T51 100m Males’s T51 200m |
Victoria | BC | Vic Metropolis Elite | Geoff Harris | BC |
| Charlotte Bolton | Girls’s F41 Discus Girls’s F41 Shot Put |
Tillsonburg | ON | SISU Throws Membership | Richard Parkinson | ON |
| Greg Stewart | Males’s F46 Shot Put | Kamloops | BC | Kamloops Monitor & Discipline 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 Metropolis Athletics Membership | Paul Galas | ON |
| Julia Hanes | Girls’s F33 Shot Put Girls’s F33 Javelin |
LaSalle | ON | WC Race Sequence | Agnes Esser | BC |
| Katie Pegg | Girls’s F46 Shot Put | Scarborough | ON | Saint Marys College | Jodi Langley | NS |
| Keegan Gaunt | Girls’s T13 400m Girls’s T13 1500m |
Thunder Bay | ON | Vic Metropolis Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |
| Marissa Papaconstatinou | Girls’s T64 100m Girls’s T64 200m |
Toronto | ON | Toronto Racers Athletic Membership | Bob Westman | ON |
| Nate Riech | Males’s T38 1500m | Victoria | BC | Vic Metropolis Elite | Heather Hennigar | BC |
| Noah Vucsics | Males’s T20 Lengthy Bounce | Calgary | AB | U of C Athletics | Jane Kolodnicki | AB |
| Renee Foessel | Girls’s F38 Discus | Barrie | ON | Cruisers Sports activities | Ken Corridor | ON |
| Sheriauna Haase | Girls’s T47 100m Girls’s T47 200m |
Toronto | ON | Toronto Racers Athletic Membership | Bob Westman | ON |
| Zachary Gingras | Males’s T38 400m | Markam | ON | Vic Metropolis Elite | Geoff Harris | ON |
