Quick facts
Birthdate
August 20, 1989
Hometown
Rimbey, Alta.
Residence
Toronto
Sport
Para Athletics
Classification
T51
Experience
Paris 2024
Cody Fournie won the silver medal in the men’s T51 100-m wheelchair race at the 2024 World Championships in Kobe, Japan. The performance was also worth a Paralympic Games quota spot for Canada.
At the 2023 worlds in Paris, he finished fifth in the T51 100m and set a new personal best for sixth in the T51 200m.
Fournie became a quadriplegic through an accident at just 11 years old. Growing up, there wasn’t a whole lot of opportunities to express himself through sport. That was until he discovered wheelchair rugby in 2010.
He was a member of Canada’s national wheelchair rugby program for several years before switching to wheelchair racing.
