VERMETTE Jonathan

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 4 Mar 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Sport Class: 1.0

Place of birth: SHERBROOKE, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

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
11	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
12	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER

Jo-Jo (disability.illinois.edu, 01 Jan 2009)

Para skiing. (ici.radio-canada.ca, 25 Sep 2020)

Occupation:

General Studies - University of Illinois, United States

Languages spoken:

English, French

Matteo Feriani [national]

Sporting relatives:

His twin brother Phillipe has also represented Canada in wheelchair basketball. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2014)

2015 for Canada, in Toronto, Canada (Athlete, 22 Jul 2016)

He began playing the sport at age 15 in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. (Athlete, 22 Jul 2016; wheelchairbasketball.ca, 01 Jan 2014)

After the accident that resulted in his impairment, his father decided to set up a wheelchair basketball team in the family's hometown of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. "Without my dad, maybe I would have never started playing wheelchair basketball and who knows what my future would have been. Sport really helped me see my disability as something I could really deal with and use it to do something great." (thestar.com, 06 Aug 2014; wheelchairbasketball.ca, 07 Dec 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 07 Dec 2020; ici.radio-canada.ca, 25 Sep 2020)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (Athlete, 22 Jul 2016; thestar.com, 06 Aug 2014)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 22 Jul 2016)

Impairment Details
He was involved in a car accident at age nine, which killed his mother and left him, his twin brother and sister with paraplegia. (thestar.com, 06 Aug 2014)

General
MOTIVATION
At age nine he was involved in a car accident which killed his mother and left him, his sister and twin brother with paraplegia. After spending six months recovering in hospital he returned home and soon used wheelchair basketball as a way to carry on with normal life, as did his siblings. "We were used to driving on that road. I think we were all feeling pretty safe with my dad driving. It was a day like any other day. I could not believe we were in that car and we made it. I'd say we were lucky in bad luck. We're healthy right now. Our injuries could have been a lot worse. I guess some people realise we've been through a lot of difficult events. They think it's horrible and it could destroy us but, instead, we decided to do sports, practice hard and love life. I would be lying if I said it was always easy. It's not. Sometimes I would like to go back in the past, which is not possible of course. It's not always easy but basketball helps me a lot. I'm just always trying to find positive thoughts and positive things to do." (thestar.com, 06 Aug 2014)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.vermette1

Legend

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

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