Canada at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Canada at the Paralympic Games

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Canada is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for six athletes in sailing events.

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[1][2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[3]

Boccia

Canada qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport at the Montreal hosted 2015 BisFed Americas Pair and Team championship in the Pairs BC4 event. They claimed gold ahead of silver medalist Brazil and bronze medalists Colombia.[4][5]

Goalball

Men

The Canada men's national goalball team qualified for the Rio Games after finishing third at the 2015 Parapan American Games. They earned the spot because the two teams ahead of them, Brazil and the United States, had already qualified.[6][7]

Women

The Canada women's national goalball team qualified for the Rio Games after finishing third at the 2015 Parapan American Games. They earned the spot because the two teams ahead of them, Brazil and the United States, had already qualified.[6][7]

Paracanoeing

Canada earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy where the top six finishers in each Paralympic event earned a qualifying spot for their nation. Christine Gauthier earned the spot for Canada after finishing sixth in the women's KL2 event.[8][9]


Rowing

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Canada qualified for the 2016 Games under this criteria in the LTA Mixed Coxed Four event with a third place finish in a time of 03:27.380.[10][11]

Sailing

Canada qualified a boat for all three sailing classes at the Games through their results at the 2014 Disabled Sailing World Championships held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Places were earned in the solo 2.4mR event, the two-person SKUD 18-class and a crew also qualified for the three-person Sonar class.[12]


Sitting volleyball

Canada women's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Games at the 2015 Parapan American Games.[13][14]

Swimming

The top two finishers in each Rio medal event at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships earned a qualifying spot for their country for Rio. Aurelie Ricard earned Canada a spot after winning gold in the Women's 50m Freestyle S10.[15][16]

Wheelchair basketball

Men

The Canada men's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[17]

Women

The Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[17]


Wheelchair rugby

Canada national wheelchair rugby team qualified for the Rio Paralympics at the 2015 Parapan American Games after defeating the United States in the gold medal match.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Boccia Qualification System" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "AMERICAS PAIRS AND TEAMS 2015 - MONTREAL -CANADA" (PDF). BisFed. 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Goalball Qualification System" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Download — xls — Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games Goalball Results". International Paralympic Blind Sports Association. 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "CANOE Qualification" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships - Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Qualifier" (PDF). International Canoe Federation. 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Rowing Qualification" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "(LTAMix4+) LTA Mixed Coxed Four - Final". World Rowing. 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "Ten countries guarantee their place in the Rio 2016 Paralympic sailing competition". Rio 2016 Official Website. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Who is Rio bound for Sitting Volleyball?". World Para Volleyball. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  14. 1 2 "USA, Canada and Mexico win places at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games via Parapan American Games". Rio 2016. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "Swimming QUALIFICATION" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Daily Medallists". International Paralympic Committee. July 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  17. 1 2 "Rio 2016 Paralympic Games". Wheechair Basketball Canada. 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
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