Collin
Cameron

Para nordic sit skier Collin Cameron’s past two seasons (2024-25 and 2023-24) have been ravaged by illness and injuries, but he won’t be deterred. The Bracebridge, Ont., racer, who excels in both cross country and the biathlon, is determined to be on the start line at the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games.

Cameron won three bronze medals in each of his first two trips to the Paralympics in 2018 and 2022. At Beijing 2022, Cameron became the first Canadian male sit-skier to reach the Paralympic podium in a cross-country distance race.

In 2023-24 it was a sinus infection that limited him to the World Cup final in Prince George, B.C., where he won the men’s sitting cross country sprint event. The 2024-25 campaign was another tough campaign for Cameron. After the first World Cup in December, a shoulder injury kept him on the sidelines for the rest of the season.

But he kicked off the 2025-26 season in spectacular fashion with two silver medal medals at the Para cross country World Cup and gold and silver at the Para biathlon World Cup, both held in December 2025 at Canmore, Alta.

 In a very successful Paralympic Games debut in 2018, he was third in the 7.5 kilometre and 15-kilometre races in the biathlon and helped Canada to third in the open cross-country relay.

Cameron has also raced at three world championships earning two gold and four silver medals.

Cameron first tried Para nordic skiing in November 2015 at an identification camp in Canmore. He began competing in January 2016. His introduction to nordic skiing came by chance after he saw some photos on the Sudbury Accessible Sports Council Facebook page.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Triple bronze medallist at the 2018 and 2022 Paralympic Winter Games… 2017, 2019, 2023 world championship team member… Won his first world title at the 2019 world championships on home soil in Prince George, BC… Has been named the Elite Athlete of the Year in Sudbury several times.

PERSONAL
He has played Para ice hockey for the Northern Sliders in Sudbury…He was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that causes a shortening of the lower limbs, and an under-development of muscles and tendons in the legs
 

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

2023 Para nordic World Championships – biathlon sprint  – 1st

2023 Para nordic World Championships – cross country long distance – 2nd

2023 Para nordic World Championships – cross country middle distance – 2nd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country long distance – 3rd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country sprint – 3rd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country mixed relay – 3rd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country middle distance – 4th

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon individual – 4th

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon sprint – 7th

2019 Para nordic World Championships – cross country skiing sprint – 1st

2019 Para nordic World Championships – biathlon middle distance – 2nd

2019 Para nordic World Championships –cross country skiing mixed relay – 2nd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon 7.5 km – 3rd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon 15 km – 3rd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country relay – 3rd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country sprint – 4th

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country 15 km – 5th

2017 Para nordic World Championships – 15 km cross country skiing – 7th

2017 Para nordic World Championships – 1 km cross country skiing – 4th

2017 Para nordic World Championships –  12.5 km biathlon – 5th

2017 Para nordic World Championships –  7.5 km biathlon – 12th

2017 Para nordic World Cup PyeongChang – cross country sprint – 1st