Canadian Para athletes win 10 medals at 2026 Commonwealth Games

GLASGOW, Scotland – Canada’s Para athletes won 10 medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, contributing to the country’s total of 62 medals as the Games concluded Sunday.

The Canadian medallists were:

Gold (1)

Sheriauna Haase, Toronto, Para athletics, women’s T47 100m

Silver (3)

Chloe Dunbar, Windsor, N.S., Para athletics, women’s T47 100m

Michael Barber, Victoria, Para athletics, men’s T20 1500m

Noah Vucsics, Calgary, Para athletics, men’s T20 long jump

Bronze (6)

George Quarcoo, Toronto and guide Segun Makinde, Ottawa, Para athletics, men’s T12 100m

Zach Gingras, Markham, Ont., Para athletics, men’s T38 100m

Nicolas Guy Turbide, Para swimming, men’s S13 50m freestyle

Mary Jibb, Para swimming. Muskoka, Ont., women’s SM10 200m individual medley

Jack Gill, Para swimming, Brockville, Ont., men’s S10 100m butterfly

Men’s 3×3 wheelchair basketball (Garrett Ostepchuk, Regina; Lee Melymick, Toronto; Kyrell Sopotyk, Aberdeen, Sask.; Reed De’Aeth, Sherwood Park, Alta.)

Canada fielded a record 35 Para athletes to Glasgow as part of the 149-member Commonwealth Games team.  Six Para sports were on the program and Canada competed in four of them: Para swimming, Para athletics, Para lawn bowls and 3×3 wheelchair basketball.

One of Canada’s top moments at the Games came when Sheriauna Haase of Toronto and Chloe Dunbar of Windsor, N.S., 19 and 17-years-old, finished 1-2 in the women’s T47 100m race. Haase clocked a Canadian record 12.23 seconds and Dunbar took the silver in 12.33.

Haase, a 2024 Paralympian, once again amazed herself with her poise.

“This experience was so amazing,” she said. ”It was kind of a new level of locking in that my coach, and I went through and just really trusting God’s plan for how this whole process was going to go. I’m just so grateful to have won gold. It took me by surprise. I still can’t even believe it. Every single time I look at the medal, I can’t believe that it’s around my neck,”

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For Dunbar, it was her first major Games appearance, and she paid a huge tribute to Haase’s leadership both on and off the field.

“Extremely pleased to be able to do it with Sheriauna here,” Dunbar said.  ”It makes it so much better and so special. I used to run actually with my prosthetic because I was nervous of what people would think in my image. Then I saw Sheriauna running without her arm and being confident with who she was. That has made me become the person I am today, especially in athletics.”

Another great story in Para athletics was George Quarcoo of Toronto earning a bronze in the men’s T12 100m with his guide Segun Makinde of Ottawa.

Quarcoo competed at the Commonwealth Games eight years ago and couldn’t finish the 100m due to a quad injury.  In Glasgow, he raced on two sprained ankles and clocked 11.06, his fastest time under any conditions. He injured one ankle in training and the other at the 70-metre mark in the final.

“It has been a journey,” the Ghana-born Quarcoo told Ottawa Sports Pages. “It has been a long time since my first Commonwealth Games, representing Canada, eight years. I had one mission.

‘’When I heard the announcement I would represent Canada (again at the Commonwealth Games), I had a mission to accomplish. I had to handle business, get to the final and execute my race.”

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Still in athletics Michael Barber of Victoria won the silver medal in the men’s T20 1500m, 36 years after his father Gary Barber ran in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

His father and other family members were in the stands cheering him on. It was also a big comeback for Michael, who missed a berth on Canadian teams for the 2023 Parapan Ams and 2024 Paralympics by one quota spot. He was hit by a car in November 2024 which left him with several injuries.

“That car crash almost ended my career because of concussion and stress fractures,” Michael Barber told the Times Colonist. ”I’ve needed to be adaptable and mentally resilient.”

Canada finished with six Para athletics medals, three in Para swimming and one in men’s 3×3 wheelchair basketball.

Mary Jibb’s bronze in the women’s SM10 200m individual medley was Canada’s first medal of the Games.

Kady Dandeneau of Pender Island, B.C., a member of the women’s 3×3 wheelchair basketball team that placed fourth was Canada’s flag bearer in the Opening Ceremony.

Apart from the competition, Canadian Para athletes revelled in the experience of being part of an integrated Games.

Para sports debuted at the 1994 Games in Victoria, B.C. as demonstration events and have been part of the official program since 2002. Canada’s Chantal Petitclerc was the first ever Commonwealth Games champion in a Para event winning the women’s 800m wheelchair race in 2002 in Manchester.

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“Having an integrated team and program is completely different to what we experience at a Paralympics or a world championship,” two-time Commonwealth Games team member Zach Gingras of Brampton, Ont., told Glasgow2026.com. “We are competing for the same goal under the same flag.  It can be surreal at times to be in that environment, when you find yourself on a team with people who were your idols growing up.”

It’s an experience many Canadian Para athletes hope to repeat.

 “It was the first major competition that I’ve had and it’s surreal,” said Maitlan Knoke of Saskatoon, eighth in the F57 men’s shotput.  ”It’s huge. It’s amazing. Can’t wait for the next big comp to happen.”

For more information: 2026 Commonwealth Games | Commonwealth Sport Canada

Canadian Para athletes at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, July 23-August 4, 2026

PARA ATHLETICS

Men

George Quarcoo, Toronto, T12 100m (2018)

Segun Makinde, Ottawa, T12 100m (guide) (2018)

Maitlan Knoke, Saskatoon, F57 shotput

Michael Barber, Victoria, T20 1500m

Noah Vucsics, Calgary, T20 long jump

Zachary Gingras, Markham, Ont., T38 100m (2022)

Women

Addisyn Franceschini, Thunder Bay, Ont., discus, F42-44 or F61-64 ??

Chloe Dunbar, Brooklyn, N.S. women, T47 100m

Christel Robichaud, Grande-Digue, N.B., F57 shotput

Nandini Sharma, Brampton, Ont., T54 400m and 1500m (2022)

Natalie Thirsk, Edmonton, T38 100m and 200m (2022)

Sheriauna Haase, Toronto, T47 100m

Claire Norek, Gerald, Sask., shotput

PARA SWIMMING

Men

Hunter Helberg, Fort McMurray, Alta.

Sebastian Massabie, Surrey, B.C.

Alec Elliot, Kitchener, Ont,

Jagdev Gill, Montreal

Fernando Lu, Burnaby, B.C.

Reid Maxwell, Edmonton

Nicolas-Guy Turbide, Quebec City

Women

Tianna Asala, Calgary,

Danielle Dorris, Moncton, N.B.

Emma Van Dyk, Port Colborne, Ont.

Katie Cosgriffe, Burlington, Ont.

Mary Jibb, Muskoka, Ont.

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL (3X3)

Men

Garrett Ostepchuk, Regina

Lee Melymick, Toronto

Kyrell Sopotyk, Aberdeen, Sask.

Reed De’Aeth, Sherwood Park, Alta.

Women

Kady Dandeneau, Pender Island, B.C. (2022)

Élodie Tessier, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Que. (2022)

Puisand Lai, Toronto

Rosie Long, Oakville, Ont.

PARA BOWLS

Anne Hibberd, Calgary, B6-8 Para pairs

Jean Stairs, Moncton, N.B., B6-8 Para pairs