| Npc: | CAN |
| Country: | Canada |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Games: | Summer Paralympics |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of Canada |
| Npcname: | Canadian Paralympic Committee |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Flagbearer Open: | Priscilla Gagné |
| Flagbearer Close: | Brent Lakatos |
| Competitors: | 128 |
| Coaches: | 113 (coaches and staff) |
| Sports: | 18 |
| Rank: | 23 |
| Gold: | 5 |
| Silver: | 10 |
| Bronze: | 6 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Canada competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.[1]
On August 8, 2021, the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced the final team of 128 athletes (57 men and 71 women) competing in 128 sports.[2] [3] A total of 113 coaches and support staff will also accompany the team.[4]
On August 21, 2021, judoka Priscilla Gagné was announced as Canada's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.[5] [6]
See main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August | |||||
| 1 September | |||||
| 1 September | |||||
| 26 August | |||||
| 26 August | |||||
| 27 August | |||||
| 27 August | |||||
| 28 August | |||||
| 29 August | |||||
| 30 August | |||||
| 1 September | |||||
| 25 August | |||||
| 25 August | |||||
| 29 August | |||||
| 29 August | |||||
| 31 August | |||||
The following is the list of athletes per sport/discipline.
| width=150 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Athletics (track and field) | 9 | 7 | 16 | ||||
| Badminton | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Boccia | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Cycling | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Equestrian | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Goalball | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Judo | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Paracanoeing | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Paratriathlon | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Rowing | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||||
| Shooting | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Sitting volleyball | 0 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| Swimming | 6 | 13 | 19 | ||||
| Wheelchair basketball | 11 | 12 | 23 | ||||
| Wheelchair fencing | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Wheelchair rugby | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||||
| Wheelchair tennis | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 57 | 71 | 128 |
See main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Canada qualified one female archer. Karen Van Nest qualified by winning silver at the Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico.[7] This will make her sixth appearance at the Paralympic Games.[7]
See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Canada's track and field team of 16 athletes (nine men and seven women) was announced on July 30, 2021.[8]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Zachary Gingras | 400m T38 | 51.81 | 3 Q | 50.85 | ||
| Austin Ingram | 100m T13 | 11.21 | 10 | did not advance | ||
| align=left rowspan=6 | Brent Lakatos | 100m T53 | 14.49 | 2 Q | 14.55 | |
| 400m T53 | 48.00 | 2 Q | 46.75 AR | |||
| 800m T53 | 1:42.29 | 6 Q | 1:36.32 | |||
| 1500m T53 | 3:03.72 | 15 | did not advance | |||
| 5000m T54 | 10:15.15 | 8 Q | 10:30.19 | |||
| Marathon T54 | 1:29.18 | 4 | ||||
| Thomas Normandeau | 400m T47 | 50.33 | 7 Q | 50.02 | 6 | |
| Guillaume Ouellet | 5000m T13 | 14:47.47 | 5 | |||
| Nathan Riech | 1500m T38 | 3:58.92 | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Austin Smeenk | 100m T34 | 15.92 | 7 | ||
| 800m T34 | 1:46.99 | 5 Q | 1:47.58 | 5 | ||
| Liam Stanley | 1500m T37 | |||||
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=5 | Jessica Frotten | 100m T53 | ||||
| 400m T53 | ||||||
| 800m T53 | 1:56.79 | 9 | did not advance | |||
| 1500m T53 | 3:52.23 | 13 | did not advance | |||
| 5000m T53 | ||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Marissa Papaconstantinou | 100m T64 | 27.22 | 5 Q | 27.08 | 5 |
| 200m T64 | ||||||
| Athlete | Event | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Charlotte Bolton | Discus throw F41 | 27.72 | 6 |
| Shot put F41 | 8.73 | 6 | ||
| Jennifer Brown | align=left rowspan=2 | Discus throw F38 | ||
| Renee Foessel | ||||
| Sarah Mickey | Discus throw F55 | 22.49 | 6 | |
| Amy Watt | Long jump T47 | |||
See main article: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Canada qualified one female badminton athlete. Olivia Meier qualified to compete in the women's singles SL4 event.[9] The appearance will also mark Canada's debut in the sport at the Paralympics.[9]
See main article: Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified in BC4 & Individual BC2 events, they include Danik Allard, Iulian Ciobanu, Marco Dispaltro and Alison Levine.[10]
| Athlete | Event | Pool matches | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | |||
| Danik Allard | Mixed individual BC2 | L 4–8 | L 4–6 | W 12–1 | 3 | did not advance | ||||
| Iulian Ciobanu | align=left rowspan="2" | Mixed individual BC4 | W 3–3 | W 6–4 | L 2–8 | 2 | did not advance | |||
| Alison Levine | W 4–3 | L 2–3 | L 8–2 | 3 | did not advance | |||||
See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified a total of nine cyclists (five men and four women). Canada will compete in both disciplines (road and track), with four athletes Tristen Chernove, Ross Wilson, Kate O'Brien and Keely Shaw competing in both. The team was named on July 7, 2021.[11] On August 30, 2021, Tristen Chernove withdrew from the Games after announcing his immediate retirement.[12]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey Desjardins | align=left rowspan=3 | Road race H3 | 2:48:04 | 8 |
| Alex Hyndman | 3:00:50 | 11 | ||
| Charles Moreau | 2:59:47 | 10 | ||
| Ross Wilson | Road race C1–3 | |||
| Joey Desjardins | align=left rowspan=3 | Time trial H3 | 46:13.88 | 11 |
| Alex Hyndman | 51:35.43 | 16 | ||
| Charles Moreau | 47:00.95 | 12 | ||
| Ross Wilson | Time trial C1 | 27:57.31 | 7 |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keely Shaw | Road race C4–5 | |||
| Marie-Ève Croteau | align=left rowspan=2 | Road race T1–2 | ||
| Shelley Gautier | ||||
| Kate O'Brien | align=left rowspan=2 | Time trial C4 | ||
| Keely Shaw | 42:11.09 | 4 | ||
| Marie-Ève Croteau | align=left rowspan=2 | Time trial T1–2 | 39:45.55 | 6 |
| Shelley Gautier | 41:07.32 | 8 | ||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Opponent Results | Rank | |||
| Tristen Chernove | Men's individual pursuit C1 | 3:40.591 | 2 Q | L Overlapped | ||
| Keely Shaw | Women's individual pursuit C4 | 3:49.032 | 3 QB | W 3:48.342 | ||
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristen Chernove | Men's time trial C1–3 | |||
| Kate O'Brien | Women's time trial C4–5 | 35.439 | ||
See main article: Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified a team of four equestrians. The team was officially named on July 20, 2021.[13]
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | ||||
| Lauren Barwick | Sandrino | Individual championship test grade III | 70.000 | 9 | |
| Individual freestyle test grade III | 72.507 | 6 | |||
| Winona Hartvikson | Onyx | Individual championship test grade I | 69.893 | 9 | |
| Jody Schloss | Lieutenant Lobin | Individual championship test grade I | 69.286 | 11 | |
| Roberta Sheffield | Fairuza | Individual championship test grade III | 69.765 | 12 | |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Individual score | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | ||||
| Lauren Barwick | See above | Team | 70.235 | 211.699 | 10 |
| Winona Hartvikson | 69.464 | ||||
| Roberta Sheffield | 72.000 | ||||
See main article: Goalball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: Goalball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament. The women's goalball team qualified by being one of two teams from the 2019 IBSA Goalball Paralympic Ranking Tournament to not have qualified through other tournaments.
See main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified one female judoka. Priscilla Gagné was officially named to the team on July 16, 2021.[15]
See main article: Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified four boats and three athletes (one man and two women). The team was announced on August 6, 2021.[16] All three canoeists are making their Paralympic debut.[16]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Mathieu St-Pierre | Men's VL2 | |||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Brianna Hennessy | Women's KL1 | ||||||
| Women's VL2 | ||||||||
| Andrea Nelson | Women's KL2 | |||||||
See main article: Paratriathlon at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified four triathletes (one man and three women). The team was officially named on July 12, 2021.[17]
| Athlete | Event | Swim | Trans 1 | Bike | Trans 2 | Run | Total time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Daniel | Men's PTS5 | 10:31 | 0:59 | 30:13 | 0:49 | 16:50 | 59:22 | ||
| Kamylle Frenette | Women's PTS5 | 11:54 | 1:05 | 34:58 | 0:46 | 21:26 | 1:10:09 | 4 | |
| Jessica Tuomela (Guide - Marianne Hogan) | Women's PTVI | 12:35 | 1:19 | 32:18 | 1:10 | 25:31 | 1:12:53 | 5 |
See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified two boats in mixed events for the games. The mixed coxed four crews qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2021 Final Qualification Regatta in Varese, Italy.[18] While the mixed Double sculls received a bipartite commission invitation allocation.[19] The team of seven rowers was announced on August 4, 2021.[20]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Jessye Brockway Jeremy Hall | Mixed double sculls | 9:43.91 | 5 R | 9:11.14 | 5 FB | 9:53.64 | 12 | |
| Mixed coxed four | 7:43.84 | 4 R | 7:15.81 | 4 FB | 7:43.03 | 8 | ||
See main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Canada qualified two shooters (one per gender) through bipartie slot allocations. The team was named on August 6, 2021.[21]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | Score | Rank | |||
| Doug Blessin | align=left rowspan=2 | R4 – Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 | ||||
| Lyne Tremblay | ||||||
| Doug Blessin | align=left rowspan=2 | R5 – Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 | 627.5 | 33 | did not advance | |
| Lyne Tremblay | 609.0 | 36 | did not advance | |||
| Doug Blessin | align=left rowspan=2 | R9 – Mixed 50 metre rifle prone SH2 | ||||
| Lyne Tremblay | ||||||
See main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament. Canada women's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after winning the 2020 World ParaVolley Final Paralympic Qualification Event held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.[22]
See main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified nineteen swimmers: six male swimmers including Nicolas-Guy Turbide who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and thirteen female swimmers including Aurelie Rivard and Katarina Roxon who both won medals at the last Paralympic Games. Tess Routliffe was scheduled to compete but withdrew from the swimming team following an injury that occurred at the World Para Swimming World Series finale in Berlin, Routliffe's teammate Danielle Kisser replaced her.[24] [25]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Nicholas Bennett | 200m freestyle S14 | 1:58.49 | 8 Q | 1:56.52 | 6 | |
| 100m backstroke S14 | ||||||
| 100m breaststroke S14 | 1:06.73 | 4 Q | 1:06.94 | 5 | ||
| 100m butterfly S14 | 58.38 | 9 | did not advance | |||
| 200m individual medley SM14 | 2:13.94 | 4 Q | 2:13.21 | 7 | ||
| Matthew Cabraja | 50m freestyle S11 | 28.13 | 9 | did not advance | ||
| 400m freestyle S11 | 4:56.42 | 6 Q | 4:57.63 | 7 | ||
| 100m backstroke S11 | 1:13.98 | 9 | did not advance | |||
| 100m butterfly S11 | ||||||
| Alec Elliot | 50m freestyle S10 | 25.22 | 9 | did not advance | ||
| 400m freestyle S10 | 4:14.65 | 2 Q | 4:10.29 | 5 | ||
| 100m butterfly S10 | 58.59 | 5 Q | 58.44 | 5 | ||
| 200m individual medley SM10 | ||||||
| James Leroux | 100m breaststroke SB9 | 1:11.49 | 6 | |||
| Nicolas-Guy Turbide | 50m freestyle S13 | 24.54 | 8 Q | 24.59 | 8 | |
| 100m backstroke S13 | 1:01.08 | 3 Q | 59.70 | |||
| Zach Zona | 400m freestyle S8 | 4:49.09 | 9 | did not advance | ||
See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
| Team | Event | Group stage | Quarterfinal | Semifinals | Final / / | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | |||
| Canada men's | Men's tournament | L 41–48 | L 73–77 | L 56–62 | W 74–64 | W 63–52 | 4 Q | L 52–66 | Did not advance | L 56–68 | 8 | |
| Canada women's | Women's tournament | W 73–54 | W 61–35 | L 57–59 | W 76–37 | 2 Q | L 48–63 | Did not advance | W 68–49 | 5 | ||
See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament. The men's team qualified by winning the silver medal at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru.[26]
See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament. The women's team qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru.[28]
See main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified four athletes (three men and one women). The team was officially named on July 9, 2021.[29]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
| align=left rowspan=8 | Matthieu Hebert | align=left rowspan=4 | Men's individual foil A | L 3-5 | 15 | did not advance | |||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 1-5 | |||||||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Men's individual sabre A | L 1-5 | 15 | did not advance | |||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 1-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=11 | Pierre Mainville | align=left rowspan=6 | Men's individual épée B | W 5-4 | 13 | did not advance | |||
| L 2-5 | |||||||||
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| L 1-5 | |||||||||
| L 1-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=5 | Men's individual sabre B | L 2-5 | 9 Q | L 9–15 | did not advance | ||||
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| W 5-0 | |||||||||
| L 4-5 | |||||||||
| L 2-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=9 | Ryan Rousell | align=left rowspan=5 | Men's individual épée A | L 1-5 | 14 | did not advance | |||
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| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Men's individual sabre A | L 4-5 | 13 | did not advance | |||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 3-5 | |||||||||
| L 3-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=9 | Sylvie Morel | align=left rowspan=5 | Women's individual foil A | W 5-3 | 15 | did not advance | |||
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| L 2-5 | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Women's individual sabre A | L 2-5 | 14 | did not advance | |||||
| L 0-5 | |||||||||
| L 1-5 | |||||||||
| L 3-5 | |||||||||
See main article: Wheelchair rugby at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. The Canadian team qualified for the games by winning the Final Qualification Tournament held in Richmond, British Columbia in March 2020.[30]
See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Canada qualified one wheelchair tennis athlete. Robert Shaw qualified by being ranked 9th in the world.[32]