Paris 2024 Day 4 Preview: Para triathlon takes centre stage

Canadian Paralympic Committee

August 31, 2024

The Paris 2024 Canadian Paralympic Team will be competing in nine sports on day four of the Paralympic Games. Here is the line-up for Sunday September 1

– Action continues in Para athletics and Para swimming; Kyle Tremblay in Para archery elimination rounds
– Group play wraps up for women’s goalball and wheelchair basketball teams

The Paris 2024 Canadian Paralympic Team will be competing in nine sports on day four of the Paralympic Games. Here is the line-up for Sunday September 1:

Para Swimming
Five Para swimmers are in the line-up Sunday, including Aurelie Rivard, who secured her 11^th career Paralympic medal on day one of competition in Paris with a bronze in the 50m freestyle.

First up are Alexander Elliot and Fernando Lu in the men’s 100m freestyle S10 heats at 9:38 a.m. CEST / 3:38 a.m. ET. They will be followed closely behind by Rivard and Arianna Hunsicker in the women’s 100m freestyle S10 heats, and Reid Maxwell in the men’s 200m individual medley SM8.

Finals start at 5:30 p.m. CEST / 11:30 a.m. ET.

Para Triathlon
All three of Canada’s Para triathletes will compete on Sunday. Leading off the trio will be Leanne Taylor, making her Paralympic debut. Taylor will race in the women’s wheelchair category starting at 8:20 a.m. CEST / 2:20 a.m. ET.

Stefan Daniel, a five-time world champion and two-time Paralympic medallist (silver, bronze), is up next in the men’s PTS5 at 12:20 p.m. CEST / 6:20 a.m. ET. Starting just 15 minutes later will be Kamylle Frenette in the women’s PTS5. Frenette, ranked No. 2 in the world, is competing at her second Games.

Para Athletics
Two wheelchair racers will be on the track in the early session at Stade de France. Austin Smeenk, at his third Paralympic Games, will race in the men’s 100m T34 heats at 10:55 a.m. CEST / 4:55 a.m. ET. A silver medallist in this distance at the 2023 world championships, he will be looking to advance into Monday’s final.

Brent Lakatos is set for the men’s 400m T53 heats at 12:50 p.m. CEST / 6:50 a.m. ET. A silver medallist in Tokyo, if he advances into the final, he will also race Sunday night at 8:07 p.m. CEST / 2:07 p.m. ET.

In the evening session, Julia Hanes will compete in the women’s F34 javelin at 7:32 p.m. CEST / 1:32 p.m. ET. It will be Hanes’s Paralympic debut.

Wheelchair Rugby
Canada will take on Denmark in the placing playoffs at 11:30 a.m. CEST / 5:30 a.m. ET. The team’s best possible finish is fifth.

Goalball
The Canadian women’s goalball team will play its final round-robin game at 10:30 a.m. CEST / 4:30 a.m. ET against South Korea. With a 1-1 record so far, they will hope for a strong final push before the quarterfinals.

Para Archery
Kyle Tremblay will take on Austrian Michael Meier in the men’s compound open 1/8 elimination round with hopes of advancing into the quarterfinals. The duel will start at 4:04 p.m. CEST / 10:04 a.m. ET. Competition will then continue through the day all the way till the medal rounds.

Wheelchair Basketball
The Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team will close out group play against Spain at 9:30 p.m. CEST / 3:30 p.m. ET. The squad holds a 1-1 record. All eight teams in the tournament will advance to the quarterfinals, with a higher finish in the pool stage securing a better placing for the elimination bracket.

Para Table Tennis
Peter Isherwood will make his Paralympic debut as Para table tennis commences in Paris. The first Canadian in the sport to compete in the wheelchair classification at the Games, he will challenge Poland’s Tomasz Jakimczuk in the men’s Class 2 round of 32 at 7:15 p.m. CEST / 1:15 p.m. ET.

Para Rowing
Jacob Wassermann will close out his first Paralympic Games at 9:50 a.m. CEST / 3:50 a.m. ET, racing in the PR1 men’s single sculls B final.

The complete schedule for September 1 can be found on the Paris 2024 website HERE.

HOW TO WATCH
Audiences can tune in for CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of Paris 2024 in English on CBC, CBC Gem, CBC’s Paris 2024 website (cbc.ca/paris2024) and the CBC Paris 2024 app for Android and iOS devices, and in French on ICI TÉLÉ, ICI TOU.TV, Radio-Canada’s Paris 2024 website (Radio-Canada.ca/jeux-paralympiques), and the Radio-Canada Paralympiques app for Android and iOS devices.

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