Katie
Pegg

Canada’s Para athletics team in Paris is comprised of several newcomers and that includes shot putter Katie Pegg. She met the qualifying standard with the top result in the women’s F46 shotput at the Canadian Track and Field Trials in June 2024

Pegg, born without a radial bone in her right forearm, first threw shot put as a youngster, then dropped that ball for an eight-year career in football in which she was a defensive lineman. She was the only female athlete in the league, playing for the Scarborough Thunder high school team.

Now at St. Mary’s University in Halifax in biology and forensic sciences (she played one year of football with the Halifax Explosion women’s football team) she returned to “shot” to show the capabilities of people with disabilities.