Collin
Cameron

Collin Cameron won three bronze medals in each of his first two trips to the Paralympic Games in 2018 and 2022. At Beijing 2022, Cameron became the first Canadian male sit-skier to reach the Paralympic podium in a cross-country distance race.

He’s missed most of the past two seasons. In 2023-24 it was a sinus infection that limited him to the World Cup final in Prince George, B.C., where he won the men’s sitting cross country sprint event.

The 2024-25 campaign was another tough campaign for Cameron. After the first World Cup in December, an upper body injury kept him on the sidelines for the rest of the season.

Building on a breakthrough season in 2018, Cameron battled through illness to claim his first World Para Nordic Skiing Championship title, when he won the sprint event in 2019 on home snow in Prince George, B.C.

 He book-ended his World Championship triumph with silver medals. He finished second in the biathlon middle distance race on the opening day of the event and placed second with his Canadian mates in the mixed relay.

 In a very successful Paralympic Games debut in 2018, he was third in the 7.5 kilometre and 15-kilometre races in the biathlon and helped Canada to third in the open cross-country relay.

Cameron first tried Para nordic skiing in November 2015 at an identification camp in Canmore. He began competing in January 2016. His introduction to nordic skiing came by chance after he saw some photos on the Sudbury Accessible Sports Council Facebook page.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Triple bronze medallist at the 2018 and 2022  Paralympic Winter Games… 2017, 2019, 2023 world championship team member… Won his first world title at the 2019 world championships on home soil in Prince George, BC… In 2017, 2018, 2019 he was named the Elite Athlete of the Year in Sudbury.

PERSONAL
He has played Para ice hockey for the Northern Sliders in Sudbury…He was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that causes a shortening of the lower limbs, and an under-development of muscles and tendons in the legs

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS
2023 Para nordic World Championships – biathlon sprint  – 1st
2023 Para nordic World Championships – cross country long distance – 2nd
2023 Para nordic World Championships – cross country middle distance – 2nd
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country long distance – 3rd
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country sprint – 3rd
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country mixed relay – 3rd
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country middle distance – 4th
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon individual – 4th
2022 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon sprint – 7th
2019 Para nordic World Championships – cross country skiing sprint – 1st 
2019 Para nordic World Championships – biathlon middle distance – 2nd 
2019 Para nordic World Championships –cross country skiing mixed relay – 2nd 
2018 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon 7.5 km – 3rd
2018 Paralympic Winter Games – biathlon 15 km – 3rd
2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country relay – 3rd
2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country sprint – 4th
2018 Paralympic Winter Games – cross country 15 km – 5th
2017 Para nordic World Championships – 15 km cross country skiing – 7th 
2017 Para nordic World Championships – 1 km cross country skiing – 4th 
2017 Para nordic World Championships –  12.5 km biathlon – 5th
2017 Para nordic World Championships –  7.5 km biathlon – 12th 
2017 Para nordic World Cup PyeongChang – cross country sprint – 1st