Richard Peter

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