The Paralympic Swimming Trials will be moved to Toronto
By Swimming Canada
Bo Hedges reflects on fatherhood, Canadian team, and wheelchair basketball future
TORONTO – Bo Hedges, a veteran player on Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team and vying this week for a fifth Paralympic Games appearance, is enjoying his new life as a father of an infant daughter.
“Her arrival has definitely changed things and it’s been an amazing experience,’’ said Hedges in February in an interview at the CPC’s content and media content summit. ‘’It’s so cool and I feel very fortunate.’’
Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team needs top-four to qualify for Paris
OTTAWA – Veterans Patrick Anderson and Bo Hedges headline Canada’s team for the men’s wheelchair basketball last chance Paralympic Games qualifier set for April 12-15 in Antibes, France.
The top-four teams in the eight-country tournament earn tickets to the 2024 Paralympic Games set further north in Paris from August 28 to September 8.
Veterans, new pair highlight Para alpine World Cup season
Kurt Oatway of Calgary and the new pair of Kalle Ericsson and his guide Sierra Smith posted second place overall finishes and Alexis Guimond added a third on the Para alpine World Cup season which concluded late last month.
Canada’s Sonja Gaudet inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame
PERTH, Scotland – Triple Paralympic Winter Games champion Sonja Gaudet of Vernon, B.C. was inducted this weekend into the World Curling Hall of Fame.
Gaudet is one of the world’s most decorated wheelchair curlers. In addition to her three Games titles as lead in 2006, 2010 and 2014 she was also world champion in 2009, 2011 and 2013. She competed at eight world championships overall.
Week recap: Tyler Turner crowned overall Para snowboard World Cup champion
Paralympic Games champion Tyler Turner of Campbell River, B.C. earned four victories in six races this season on the World Cup Para snowboard circuit and received the FIS’s Crystal Globe as the season’s overall champion.
He is the second Canadian this winter to receive the Crystal Globe. Mark Arendz of Hartsville, PEI was crowned the Para biathlon overall World Cup champion last month.
Over $140,000 raised at ParaTough Cup Toronto event presented by Canadian Tire Corporation
The 2023/24 season culminated in a grand finale as twenty teams converged at the historic Mattamy Athletic Centre in downtown Toronto for the ParaTough Cup presented by Canadian Tire Corporation.