ANDERSON Patrick

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 22 Aug 1979

Age: 42

Gender: Male

Sport Class: 4.5

Place of birth: EDMONTON, AB

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : BROOKLYN, NY

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Men CAN Canada	8

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #09 CAN Canada 41 ESP Spain 78	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #17 TUR Turkey 77 CAN Canada 73	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #32 JPN Japan 62 CAN Canada 56	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #43 CAN Canada 74 KOR Republic of Korea 64	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #46 COL Colombia 52 CAN Canada 63	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Quarterfinal #60 GBR Great Britain 66 CAN Canada 52	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Classification Playoff 7/8 #65 GER Germany 68 CAN Canada 56	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Men	2012	London, GBR
1	Men	2004	Athens, GRE
1	Men	2000	Sydney, NSW, AUS
2	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN
World Championships
1	Men	2006	Amsterdam, NED
3	Men	2002	Kitakyushu, JPN
3	Men	1998	Sydney, NSW, AUS
12	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER

Pat (patanderson.ca, 28 Feb 2018)

Playing guitar. (Twitter profile, 12 Mar 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Musician

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

Wife Anna, one son, two daughters

Languages spoken:

Galatasaray Wheelchair Basketball Team [Istanbul, TUR] since 2021

Matteo Feriani [national]

1997 for Canada (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 03 Nov 2011)

National league:

Super Ligi [TUR] (rollt-magazin.de, 03 Apr 2021)

He started the sport in 1990. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 03 Nov 2011)

Following his accident his father encouraged him to take up basketball. "My dad built me a basket in the backyard on a deck that I could wheel on. I'd shoot around on my legs, on my knees in my chair on my basketball chair, my day chair. I always had a basketball in my hands. I wouldn't have thought that I was training. But essentially that is what I was doing." (cbc.ca, 16 May 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Paralympic Games YouTube channel, 18 Oct 2020)

US American football player Tom Brady, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. (cbc.ca, 16 May 2019)

He was named Male Athlete of the Year by Wheelchair Basketball Canada in 2009, 2013 and 2018 at the Canadian Paralympic Committee Sport Awards. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2018)

In 2013 he was named Best Male Athlete of the Year at the Canadian Paralympic Committee Sport Awards. He was also named Ontario Athlete of the Year with a Disability and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in the same year. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2018)

He was named the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association [CWSA] Male Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2006 and 2012. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2018)

In 2010 he was named an honorary mayor of the Olympic & Paralympic Villages in Vancouver. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 03 Nov 2011)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (NPC Media Guide, 2007)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (NPC Media Guide, 2007)

Impairment Details
At age nine both his legs were amputated after he was pinned against a wall in a car accident. (NPC Media Guide, 2007)

General
MOVE TO TURKEY
In 2021 he chose to leave North America to sign for Galatasaray, a team based in Istanbul, Turkey. "I love the experience of getting to know new teammates and competitors, both as players and people. In basketball terms, it was a decision between training alone in NYC or practising and playing games in Turkey. After a year of training mostly alone, I decided to go for it. The experience will let me gauge how my body is doing. Also my 5 on 5 brain has been hibernating since the NWBA finals a year ago. Time to wake up." (rollt-magazin.de, 03 Apr 2021)

BREAKS FROM NATIONAL TEAM
He has twice taken a break from the Canadian national team. The first was for around 18 months after the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, and the second was for five years between 2012 and 2017, to pursue his music career. The second time he moved to New York, NY, United States of America, and continued to play at club level but chose to return to the national team after seeing the quality the country was producing. "When I was playing against these guys, I just saw a lot of potential. I saw guys who were really ready to make a splash internationally. I realise music is something we continue to do and improve beyond 50, whereas my window for basketball was small." (cbc.ca, 16 May 2019; wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2018)

MUSIC CAREER
In 2008 he enrolled in a general music degree at Hunter College in New York, NY, United States of America. He has since pursued a career in music alongside his basketball career and is part of a musical duo with his wife Anna called 'The Layawakes'. They perform songs themed around family and faith and have even toured together. "We had similar stories. She was into sports and music her whole life. After we got married, we'd sit around and play songs a little bit. That sort of evolved into starting to record and to write and perform together." (chvnradio.com, 27 Apr 2019; guelphtoday.com, 21 Jun 2018)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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