Collin Cameron
Birthdate
Sport(s)
Para Nordic skiing
Hometown
Bracebridge, ON
Collin Cameron won three bronze medals in his Paralympic Games debut in 2018. He was third in the 7.5 kilometre and 15 kilometre in the biathlon and helped Canada to third in the open cross country relay.
That was just a taste of the future. A year later he delivered another triple medal performance at the 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships. He won gold in the cross-country men's sitting sprint, a silver in the biathlon men's sitting middle-distance, and won another silver medal in the mixed relay.
Cameron first tried Para nordic skiing in November 2015 at an identification camp in Canmore, AB. 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.
| Year | Type | Host City |
Medals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Winter |
Pyeongchang, South Korea
|
3
|
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2019 - three medals including one gold at the 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championsips - 2018 - triple bronze medallist at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games... Won gold at the 2017 World Cup event in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea... In 2017 he was named the Elite Athlete of the Year in Sudbury.
PERSONAL
….He has played ice sledge 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… Married Marley Lafreniere in 2016…
NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS
2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships - cross-country sprint- 1st
2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships - biathlon middle -2nd
2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships - 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 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships – 15 km cross country skiing – 7th
2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships – 1 km cross country skiing – 4th
2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships – 12.5 km biathlon – 5th
2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships – 7.5 km biathlon – 12th
