Greg
Stewart

Greg Stewart earned a 2024 Paralympic Games quota spot for Canada in the F46 shotput with the silver medal at the Para athletics world championships in Kobe, Japan in May 2024. In Kobe, Stewart posted a season’s best 16.14 metres.

After his Paralympic Games victory in Tokyo, Stewart announced his retirement from competitive sport in 2022. But just over a year later he admitted he felt a discomfort from being disconnected from the sport he loved and returned to the playing field.

At Tokyo 2020, the seven-foot-two Stewart uncorked a 16.75 metre throw on his first attempt and it withstood all challenges through six rounds.

He capped a great 2019 season with a silver medal and Canadian record in the men’s F46 shotput at the IPC World Championships. On his last throw,  Stewart became only the second F46 athlete to heave pass the 16-metre mark, measuring out to 16.30-metres.

Just a few weeks earlier at the Parapan American Games in Lima,  Stewart overcame a back injury to claim the silver. At both the worlds and Parapan Ams, the victor was Joshua Cinnamo of the USA.

In his rookie season in Para athletics in 2018, Stewart was ranked number one in the world in the F46 men’s shotput.

Before becoming a thrower in athletics,’ Stewart already possessed an impressive sports resume. He was a member of Canada’s national sitting volleyball team highlighted by bronze medals at the 2007 and 2011 Parapan American Games. He also won three world titles with the men’s Para standing volleyball team. When he attended Thomson Rivers University he was a star on the varsity basketball team and named USport defensive player of the year in 2011.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2020 Paralympic Games… 2019, 2024 IPC World Championships…  2007 (sitting volleyball) 2011 (sitting volleyball) , 2019 Parapan American Games (Para athletics) … Won three world titles with the Canadian national Para standing volleyball team… Awarded the International Excellence Award by the Kamloops Sports Council at the 2019 Kamloops Sports Awards.

PERSONAL

In 2024 co-authored a new youth book called “Stand Out”, with  writer Sean Campbell….  Member of both the Athletics Canada and AthletesCAN Board of Directors…. Studied human resources at Thompson Rivers University… Born without the lower part of his left arm.

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

• 2024 IPC World Championships shot put 2nd
• 2020 Paralympic Games shot put 1st
• 2019 IPC World Championships shot put 2nd
• 2019 Parapan American Games shot put 2nd
• 2011 Parapan American Games 3rd (sitting volleyball)
• 2007 Parapan American Games 3rd (sitting volleyball)