Weekend recap: teen wins Para table tennis national title

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Quebec teen Jacob Boulay won the standing title (classes 6-11) this past weekend at the Para table tennis championships held in Brampton, Ont.

The final went the full five games as Boulay, seeded fourth, defeated fifth seed Samuel Morrissette of Ontario 15-17, 11-6, 4-11, 11-0, 11-7.

Top-seed Pablo Catalan of Manitoba was third.

Boulay underwent an amputation of his left leg at the age of one. He was born with a congenital limb difference, with one tibia shorter than the other.

This past March his brother Matis Boulay and his best friend William Yelle, both 19-year-old students, founded a club of 30 athletes to complete an Olympic-distance triathlon and a half-Ironman. They raised about $30,000 for the War Amps.

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Top-seed Muhammad Mudassar successfully defended his wheelchair title (classes 1-5) at the Para table tennis national championships held in his hometown of Brampton, Ont.

Mudassar, a two-time Parapan Am Games team member,  defeated Paralympian and third seed Peter Isherwood of Vancouver in the final 11-7, 11-4, 11-3.

Mohsin Ali Watto of Brampton took third spot.

Cryderman, Ciobanu, Allard win Canadian boccia titles

Three Canadian Paralympians were among the individual champions as the 2026 Canadian Boccia Championships which concluded Sunday at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Lance Cryderman of Sudbury, Ont., won the BC1 title, while Danik Allard of Bois-des-Filion, Que., captured gold in BC2 and Iulian Ciobanu of Montreal took the BC4 crown.

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Cryderman defeated fellow Ontarian Kyle Scott for the BC1 title. Chris Halpen of British Columbia won bronze.

Allard finished ahead of Ontario’s Jim Davis, with British Columbia’s Nathan Bragg taking bronze in BC2.

It was a Quebec sweep in BC4. Ciobanu topped  Paralympic Games medallist Marco Dispaltro of St-Jerome, Que., in the final. Three-time Paralympian Alison Levine of Montreal won bronze.

In BC3, Ontario was 1-2 with Joshua Gautier winning gold, followed by Carter Plumb with silver and Quebec’s Alexandre Lemaire with bronze.

With files from La presse