Canada - Paralympics Facts & Figures . Canada is ranked ninth in the all-time Paralympic Winter Games medal table with 119 total medals, made up of 36 gold, 41 silver and 42 bronze . Of the 119 medals Canada has won, 91 of them - 21 gold, 35 silver and 35 bronze – have come in alpine skiing events . Since wheelchair curling was introduced into the Winter Paralympics in 2006, Canada is the only nation to have won gold and Sonja Gaudet was involved in both teams . Canada has also won medals in cross-country skiing (22), ice sledge hockey (3), and biathlon (1) . The nation has won 18 gold medals in women's events and 16 in men's events, with two more gold medals in mixed wheelchair curling . Four years ago in Vancouver, Canada enjoyed its best ever Winter Paralympics winning 19 medals, including 10 golds . Alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft won five of Canada’s 10 golds in 2010. She became the first athlete to win five gold medals in alpine skiing in a single edition of the Paralympic Winter Games . Having won 10 Paralympic Winter Games medals already (seven gold, two silver and one bronze), Brian McKeever could become Canada’s most decorated Winter Paralympian in Sochi. Lauren Woolstencroft has won the most golds (eight) whilst Lana Spreeman has won 13 medals in total. . You can follow Canadian Paralympic team on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CDNParalympics and on Twitter https://twitter.com/CDNParalympics
Athletes: Alpine skiing First Name Last Name Twitter Facebook
Caleb BROUSSEAU @CalebBrousseau
Josh DUECK @justdueck https://www.facebook.com/Freedo mChair?fref=ts Matt HALLAT @matthallat
Kimberly JOINES @9LivesJoines
Erin LATIMER
International Paralympic Committee
Adenauerallee 212-214 Tel. +49 228 2097-200 www.paralympic.org 53113 Bonn, Germany Fax +49 228 2097-209 [email protected]
Braydon LUSCOMBE @OneLeggedHustla
Mac MARCOUX @MarcouxBros
Kurt OATWAY @Koatway
Alana RAMSAY Colette
Kirk SCHORNSTEIN @KirkSchornstein
Alexandra STARKER @AlexStarker
Chris WILLIAMSON
Snowboard First Name Last Name Twitter Facebook
Ian LOCKEY @adaptiverider
John LESLIE Tyler MOSHER @Mosherinspired https://www.facebook.com/TylerM osherCA?fref=ts Michelle SALT
Nordic skiing First Name Last Name Twitter Facebook
Mark ARENDZ @markarendz
Caroline BISSON @caro_bisson Juliette Colette BOURGONJE
Yves BOURQUE
Sebastien FORTIER
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Louis FORTIN https://www.facebook.com/xclouis ?fref=ts
Margarita GOURBOUNOVA @Mgorbounova
Brittany HUDAK
Chris KLEBL @chrisklebl
Brian MCKEEVER https://twitter.com/bri anmckeever Robbi WELDON @thundercycle12 https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Robbi- Weldon/154992254682058?fref=t
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Ice sledge hockey First Name Last Name Twitter Facebook
Adam DIXON @11Dixons Steve ARSENAULT Brad BOWDEN https://twitter.com/Bo https://www.facebook.com/pages/
w27 Official-Brad-Bowden- Page/230217912555
Billy BRIDGES @BillyBridges18 https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Billy-Bridges-Sledge-Hockey- FanClub/141720242744?fref=ts
Benjamin DELANEY Thomas John
Marc DORION
Anthony GALE @Anthony_Gale9 James GEMMELL @Gemms25_CAN https://www.facebook.com/pages/ James-
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Gemmell/246442875437869?fref =ts Dominic LAROCQUE Karl LUDWIG @K_Ludwig
Tyler MCGREGOR @tgregs8
Graeme MURRAY @G_Murray_29
Kevin REMPEL @KevinRempel https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Kevin- Rempel/182469855114869?fref=t s Benoit ST-AMAND @BenoitStAmand https://www.facebook.com/benoit. stamand.fanpage?fref=ts
Corbin WATSON Greg WESTLAKE https://twitter.com/gw http://www.facebook.com/HCSled
estlake12 ge?fref=ts (Sledge Hockey Canada) Derek WHITSON @whitz_04
Wheelchair curling First Name Last Name Twitter Facebook James ARMSTRONG Peter
Ina FORREST Sonia GAUDET https://www.facebook.com/pages/
Sonja-Gaudet/396985023765392 Mark Allen IDESON @MarkIdeson
Dennis THIESSEN @thiessen_dennis John
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Paralympic Winter Games debut: 1976 Year 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 Athletes 6 20 22 20 19 31 33 27 33 45 Gold 2 2 2 5 2 1 1 6 5 10 Silver 0 3 8 3 4 2 9 4 3 5 Bronze 2 1 4 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 Total 4 6 14 13 12 8 15 15 13 19
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