Saskatoon table tennis player wins Canada’s first medal at 2025 Youth Parapan American Games 

SANTIAGO, Chile – Fourteen-year-old Thulir Hector of Saskatoon won the bronze medal Sunday in the women’s S8-10 singles in Para table tennis for Canada’s first podium at the 2025 Youth Parapan American Games.

The Games got underway on Friday in the Chilean capital and continue through to November 9. Canada has fielded a 38-member team in five sports: Para table tennis, wheelchair basketball, boccia, goalball and Para swimming.

Hector, the second youngest Canadian team member and one of two athletes from Saskatchewan, was Canada’s sole athlete in the Para table tennis competition. She is currently ranked 11^th in the U-23 category and 33^rd in the women’s category for Para class 8-10 on the ITTF Para ranking.

Canadian women open 3×3 wheelchair basketball with two wins

The women’s 3×3 tournament tipped off Sunday at the Youth Parapan American Games with Team Canada opening strong, earning back-to-back victories to start their campaign in Santiago, Chile.

Canada cruised past Mexico 11–1 in their opener before rolling to a 15–1 win over Colombia to close out the day.

Kayla MacKinnon credited the team’s preparation for the success on the court on Sunday.

“We discussed before the game being hard on chairs, talking to each other, switching when appropriate,” MacKinnon explained. “That was kind of our goal: to push out early and just talk to each other, make sure we knew if a pick was coming, and that really worked well for us.”

Canadian men also 2-0 in 5×5 wheelchair basketball

Nasif Chowdhury had a game-high 22 points, leading Team Canada to a convincing 81-28 victory over Mexico in the men’s 5-on-5 tournament at the 2025 Youth Parapan American Games on Sunday.

Chowdhury added six rebounds and four assists and finished 10-of-13 shooting in the win as Canada improved to 2-0.

Brandon Louie contributed 19 points, six rebounds and three assists, while Simon Mazi-Keep chipped in 10 points and four rebounds off the bench.

Thai Milton finished with nine points and three rebounds in just over 17 minutes of action on Sunday.

“Felt good with the new role. Not used to it. Once I got into it, it was nice,” Milton said. “This tournament is definitely more fun than the Under-23 Worlds.”

Full wheelchair basketball story HERE

Canadian women’s goalball team go 3-1 on the weekend

Canada’s women’s goalball team posted two more victories on Sunday at the Youth Parapan American Games to stand with three wins and a loss after weekend play.

The Canadian women defeated Guatemala 11-1 then trounced Argentina 9-3. On Friday they opened the tournament with a 7-0 victory over Chile and its only loss was on Saturday to Brazil 5-3.

On the men’s side Canada is 1-2. It opened with a 12-6 win over Chile on Friday then lost 8-3 to Brazil on Saturday and 11-5 to Argentina on Sunday.

Preliminary round action continues in goalball and wheelchair basketball on Monday.  The boccia competition starts Tuesday and the Para swimming on Thursday.

Full results

Team Canada roster