Birthdate
Sport(s)
Wheelchair basketball, Para badminton
Hometown
Vancouver, BC
Classification
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Five-time Paralympian with Canada’s wheelchair basketball team (1996-2012)… Won the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for his outstanding athletic accomplishments…. Inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2010… Named Wheelchair Basketball Canada’s Male Athlete of the Year in 2008… Received Tom Longboat National Award for Aboriginal Male Athlete of the Year in 2000.
PERSONAL
A member of the Cowichan Tribes of British Columbia and was the only First Nations athlete on Canada’s Paralympic Team in Beijing in 2008… ‘’Chiefs and Champions” is a 2007 documentary about Peter’s career and successes as a wheelchair basketball athlete… Works with First Nations sports programs in Cowichan Valley communities… Married to former women’s national wheelchair basketball team member Marnie Abbott-Peter.
NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS
2018 Pan Am Championships – Singles – 3rd
2018 Pan Am Championships – Doubles – 3rd
In Wheelchair Basketball
2012 Paralympic Games – Gold
2008 Paralympic Games – Silver
2004 Paralympic Games – Gold
2000 Paralympic Games – Gold
1996 Paralympic Games – Fifth
Year | Type | Host City |
Medals |
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2019 | Parapan am Games |
Lima, Peru
|
1 bronze medals |
2012 | Summer |
London, England
|
1 gold medals |
2008 | Summer |
Beijing, China
|
1 silver medals |
2004 | Summer |
Athens, Greece
|
1 gold medals |
2000 | Summer |
Sydney, Australia
|
1 gold medals |
1996 | Summer |
Atlanta, USA
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