Team Canada - Profile

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Canada has sent a team to each edition of the Paralympic Games since making its debut in 1968.

Chantal Petitclerc is among the NPC's most successful athletes. In a Paralympic career that spanned 16 years from 1992 to 2008, she won her first gold medals in 1996 in Atlanta with victory in the T53 100m and T53 200m. She secured the T54 200m and T54 800m titles at Sydney 2000, and then claimed a remarkable five gold medals four years later in Athens by winning the five T54 events between 100m and 1500m. Petitclerc ended her Paralympic career by successfully defending all five titles at the 2008 Games in Beijing. In addition to her 14 career gold medals, she also won five silver medals and two bronze medals at the Games.

Swimmer Michael Edgson's tally of gold medals puts him in select company at the Paralympic Games. His gold haul came over three Paralympic Games between 1984 and 1992 but he achieved his crowning moment in 1988 in Seoul, where he secured seven gold medals across a variety of distances and strokes in the B3 category.

In team sports, the Canadian men and women's wheelchair basketball teams have both seen success at the Games. The women's team won three consecutive Paralympic titles between 1992 and 2000, while the men's team claimed gold medals in 2000, 2004, and 2012, and were also beaten finalists in 2008 in Beijing.

Competitors from Canada earned eight gold medals at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Swimmer Aurelie Rivard won her first Paralympic gold medals on her second appearance at the Games, claiming three titles in the S10 class [50m, 100m, 400m], while T52 wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell secured gold in the women's 100m and 400m. Stilwell had also claimed gold medals in athletics at the 2008 Games in Beijing [T52 100m, T52 200m] and London 2012 [T52 200m], and was part of the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team that won gold at the 2000 Games in Sydney.

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Anthem Title: O Canada

Anthem Composer: English by Robert Stanley Weir, French by Adolphe-Basile Routhier, music by Calixa Lavallee.

Anthem Inducted: 1980

Official NPC Name: Canadian Paralympic Committee

IPC Recognition Date: 1989

Delegation President: Marc-Andre Fabien

First OG/PG Appearance: 1968

Number OG/PG Appearances: 14 [Tokyo 2020 included]

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