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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Canadian Parapan Am Team 3 Lima 2019 Canadian Parapan Am Team Media Contacts 4 Chef de Mission: Stephanie Dixon 5 Boccia 7 Goalball 21 Para Athletics 41 Para Badminton 78 Para Cycling 90 Para Judo 106 Para Swimming 113 Para Table Tennis 130 Para Taekwondo 139 Sitting Volleyball 144 Wheelchair Basketball 172 Wheelchair Rugby 208 Wheelchair Tennis 231 2 About the Canadian Parapan Am Team Canada will send a team of 151 athletes (including four sport assistants, three pilots, and one guide) competing in 13 sports to the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games from August 23 to September 1. The team will be led by chef de mission Stephanie Dixon. The complete Canadian Parapan Am Team list is available for download here and information on the athletes can be found in this media guide and online at Paralympic.ca. PHOTOGRAPHY To access images of the Canadian Parapan Am Team at the Games, please visit photos.paralympic.ca/ and create an account to download images, free for editorial use. BROADCAST The Canadian Paralympic Committee will be providing livestreaming coverage of Lima 2019. The complete schedule will be available at Paralympic.ca closer to the Games. VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS To access video highlights during the Games, please contact Nicole Watts at [email protected]. SOCIAL Follow the Canadian Parapan Am Team: Paralympic.ca Facebook.com/CDNParalympics Twitter.com/CDNParalympics Youtube.com/CDNParalympics Instagram.com/CDNParalympics 3 LIMA 2019 PARAPAN AMERICAN GAMES Media Contacts Name Sport Email Phone (Whatsapp) Nicole Watts • Para Cycling [email protected] 613-462-2700 *CPC PR Lead • Wheelchair Tennis Louis Daignault • Para Athletics [email protected] 613-297-1455 • Para Badminton Jody Kingsbury • Wheelchair [email protected] 613-851-2337 Basketball • Para Table Tennis Holly Janna • Wheelchair [email protected] 514-944-5193 Rugby • Boccia Pascal Villeneuve • Para Swimming [email protected] 705-679-4197 • Para Judo Courtney Killion • Sitting Volleyball [email protected] 647-961-5845 • Goalball • Para Taekwondo 4 STEPHANIE DIXON | CHEF DE MISSION Athlete. Coach. Leader. Mentor. Broadcaster: 19-time Paralympic Games medallist Stephanie Dixon from Brampton, Ont., is an elite resource when it comes to Para sport. Now she adds Chef de Mission to her glowing resume for not one but two major Games: the 2019 Parapan American Games and the 2020 Paralympic Games. Dixon, who was born without her right leg and hip, began swimming lessons when she was two, and was instantly hooked. At 13, she was competing competitively against able-bodied athletes. By age 14, she had made Canada’s national team for swimmers with a disability. As an athlete, Dixon won seven Paralympic Games gold medals, 10 silver and two bronze in an extraordinary Para swimming career. She made her Games debut at age 16 at Sydney 2000 where she collected five gold medals, three of which were in world record time. In Athens 2004, Dixon churned to eight more medals. She then capped the first part of her Para sport career with four trips to the podium at Beijing 2008. In addition to her Paralympic accomplishments, Dixon was a six-time Parapan American Games champion. She is also a 10-time world champion including five titles at age 14 in 1998. 5 Dixon retired from competitive swimming in 2010 but she’s been a strong presence in the Para sport community both in Canada and around the world ever since. Lima and Tokyo will not be her first forays into out-of-pool Games assignments. In 2007, three years before the end of her competitive career, she served as an ambassador for the Parapan American Games in Rio to raise awareness for equal sporting opportunities for all athletes. She was also assistant chef de mission for the Canadian team at the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games. As a broadcaster, she was part of the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s team at Sochi 2014 and acted as a television host for the 2013 IPC World Swimming Championships in Montreal. For the 2016 and 2018 Paralympic Games, she was one of the main faces of broadcast coverage on CBC. Dixon also provided expert commentary for Commonwealth Games broadcasts in April 2018. Dixon currently lives in the Yukon, where she moved in 2011. She worked as the head coach of the Whitehorse Glacier Bears Swim Club for two years and today is an entrepreneur who runs her own coaching business. She is a highly sought public speaker and emcee, and an official ambassador for Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart Play Finds a Way advocating for inclusive and accessible sport. Dixon was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2015 and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in November 2016. In 2018 she was appointed to the Order of Canada. She is a graduate in psychology from the University of Victoria, where she also swam for the varsity team. In addition to swimming, she enjoys mountain biking and cross-country skiing. 6 7 BOCCIA Similar to lawn bowls, boccia is a game of precision that demands intense focus. The primary objective is to throw leather balls as close to the jack as possible. There are four classifications based on the level of impairment. It is practiced in more than 50 countries today. Boccia is played indoors on a flat, smooth surface. The players propel leather balls (six per competitor) as close as possible to a white target ball (called the “jack”) on a long, narrow field of play. A match has four ends. At the end of the game players receive one point for each ball closer than their opponents’ to the jack. All events are mixed gender and feature individual, pair, and team competitions for a total of seven medal events. Individual competition consists of four ends and six balls per player per end, whilst paired competition is four ends and six balls per pair per end (three per player). Team competition is six ends, and six balls per team per end (two per player). Crowd participation is welcomed and encouraged, however, spectators, including team members not in competition, are encouraged to remain quiet during the action of a player throwing the ball. Canadians Marco Dispaltro and Josh Vander Vies won the bronze medal in the BC4 pairs at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It was Canada’s seventh Paralympic medal in boccia. Alison Levine enters the Parapan Ams ranked third in the world in BC4 and won her first international tournament in May 2019. Canada won six medals in boccia at the 2015 Parapan American Games including one gold in pairs BC3 which included Éric Bussière. Boccia is governed by the Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA) internationally and Boccia Canada within Canada. There are four Paralympic classes in the sport of boccia: BC1 BC1 athletes have an on-court “sport assistant” to help place the ball in the athlete hand and position the chair. Athletes are allowed to use their foot to kick the ball. Athletes here have coordination impairments which affect all four limbs. They can have difficulty gripping and releasing the ball. BC2 BC2 athletes do not have a sport assistant. These athletes have a strong grip and ability to release the ball. Athletes may use a manual or power wheelchair for everyday mobility. 8 BC3 BC3 athletes use a sport assistant as well as assistive devices to help throw, such as a ramp or pointer device. BC3 have very involved impairment affecting all four limbs. There is some arm movement, but unable to throw consistently with speed onto the playing area. BC4 BC4 athletes have no sport assistant and are athletes with dysfunction affecting all four limbs. They have poor trunk control with weak or lack of control of upper and/or lower limbs with poor grip and release of ball, but enough strength to throw a ball consistently. 9 ÉRIC BUSSIÈRE | BOCCIA @EBoccia1 DOB December 16, 1985 (33 years old in Lima) BIRTHPLACE Arthabaska, Que. HOMETOWN Verchères, Que. RESIDENCE Verchères, Que. HEIGHT 152 cm COACH Simon Larouche LANGUAGES French, English GAMES HISTORY Toronto 2015, Rio 2016 DISABILITY Muscular Dystrophy, BC3 TYPE, CLASSIFICATION Noted for his quick decision-making and ball play on court, BC3 player Éric Bussière is dedicated to success in his craft. Introduced to boccia in 2011, he has excelled in the sport, making the national team only two years later. Bussière points to the BC3 pair’s win 10-2 win over the United States at the 2015 Boccia Americas Pairs and Team competition for silver as the highlight of his career. Alongside Paul Gauthier and Kevin Shaw, Bussière displayed confidence and consistency, helping lead the pair to an event qualification for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. In addition, Bussière won an individual silver medal at the World Open in Povoa, Portugal in 2016. Bussière is assisted on the field of play by his sport assistant, Francine Hebert, who is his mother. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Competed at 2018 World Championships and 2016 Paralympic Games… Won a gold in pairs and a silver medal in singles at 2015 Parapan American Games. PERSONAL Bussière enjoys adapted sailing, good food and traveling. Always willing to try something new, Bussière is constantly challenging himself, whether it’s trying a unique dish or an alternative strategy on the court. In sport, he appreciates the opportunity to visit new places and different people during away competitions. 10 NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS 2018 World Championships – Singles Mixed – 13th 2016 Paralympic Games – Singles Mixed – Eliminated in preliminaries 2016 Paralympic Games Pairs Mixed – eliminated in preliminaries 2016 BISFed Povoa World Open – Singles BC3 – Silver 2015 Parapan American Games – Singles BC3 – Silver 2015 Parapan American Games – Mixed Pairs BC3 – Gold 2015 BISFed Americas Team/Pair Championships – Mixed Pairs BC3 – Silver 11 IULIAN CIOBANU | BOCCIA DOB July 29, 1983 (36 years old in Lima) BIRTHPLACE Chisinau, Republic of Moldova HOMETOWN Chisinau, Republic of Moldova RESIDENCE Montreal, Que.