Canada At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Canada competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished twelfth in the medal table and won a total of nineteen medals; six gold, six silver and seven bronze. The Canadian team contained twenty-five athletes; eighteen men and seven women. This was Canada's first appearance at a Paralympic Games. Medalists See also * Canada at the 1968 Summer Olympics Notes References Nations at the 1968 Summer Paralympics 1968 Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...

Canadian Paralympic Committee
The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC; French: ''Comité paralympique canadien'') is the private, non-profit organization representing Canadian Paralympic athletes in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Parapan American Games. It represents 25 member sports organisations. The CPC's vision is to be the world's leading Paralympic nation. Its mission is to lead the development of a sustainable Paralympic sport system in Canada to enable athletes to reach the podium at the Paralympic Games. By supporting Canadian high performance athletes with a disability and promoting their success, the Canadian Paralympic Committee inspires all Canadians with a disability to get involved in sport through programs delivered by its member organizations. Members Active * Alpine Canada Alpin * Athletics Canada * Canadian Blind Sport Association * Canadian Cerebral Palsy Sports Association * Canadian Curling Association * Canadian Cycling Association * Canadian Fencing Federation ...
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Swimming At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ... at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of 68 events, 34 for men and 34 for women. Medal summary Medal table Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Men's events Women's events References * {{Paralympic Games Swimming 1968 Summer Paralympics events 1968 Paralympics ...
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Nations At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests. The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a promin ...
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Canada At The 1968 Summer Olympics
Canada competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, held from 12 to 27 October 1968 . 139 competitors, 111 men and 28 women, took part in 124 events in 14 sports. It is the inaugural Summer Olympics where the Canadian team marched under the new Maple Leaf flag. The youngest competitor for Canada was gymnast Theresa McDonnell who was 14 years old. The oldest competitor was equestrian Zoltan Sztehlo who was 46 years old. Medalists Gold * Jim Day, Thomas Gayford, James Elder – Equestrian, team jumping grand prix Silver * Elaine Tanner – Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke * Elaine Tanner – Swimming, women's 200 m backstroke * Ralph Hutton – Swimming, men's 400 m freestyle Bronze * Angela Coughlan, Marilyn Corson-Whitney, Elaine Tanner, and Marion Lay – Swimming, women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Athletics Women's javelin throw * Jay Dahlgren placed 13th Women's pentathlon * Jenny Meldrum placed 11th Women's 800 metres *Abigail Hoffman placed 7t ...
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Gustav Schuster
Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: *Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media * ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film * ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cartoons * Gustav (''Zoids''), a transportation mecha in the ''Zoids'' fictional universe *Gustav, a character in '' Sesamstraße'' *Monsieur Gustav H., a leading character in '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' Weapons * Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, dubbed "the Gustav" by US soldiers * Schwerer Gustav, 800-mm German siege cannon used during World War II Other uses * Gustav (pigeon), a pigeon of the RAF pigeon service in WWII *Gustave (crocodile), a large male Nile crocodile in Burundi *Gustave, South Dakota *Hurricane Gustav (other), a name used for several tropical cyclones and storms *Gustav, a streetwear clothing brand See also *Gustav of Sweden (other) *Gustav Adolf (other) *Gustave Eiffel (other) * * *Gus ...
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Lawn Bowls At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Lawn bowls at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of four events. Medal summary References * {{Paralympic Games Lawn bowls 1968 Summer Paralympics events 1968 Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...

Walter Schmid (Paralympian)
Walter Schmid (born 8 November 1944) is a Swiss entrepreneur. He is merited with the development of the Kompogas-Process around 1989, and the Kompogas company founded in 1991 (since 2011 Axpo Kompogas AG, since 2014 Hitachi Zosen Inova AG) both well-known in Switzerland. The seat of his construction company is Glattbrugg. Life and works Walter Schmid founded the construction business under his name in 1966, when he was 21 years old; he started with five employees when he took over the construction company G. Fumasoli in Glattbrugg. From an early age, Schmid pragmatically built everything technically feasible to save (fossil) energy, always in the hope that the solutions would also pay off economically. As early as 1975, Walter Schmid built one of the first vacuum solar collector systems in Switzerland, combined with a wood heating system. This was followed by earth collectors, deep water drilling and in 1988 his first building integrated photovoltaic system. Today, the constr ...
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Karen McPherson (swimmer)
Karen McPherson (born in 1951) is a Canadian retired Paralympic athlete. She won three medals in swimming events at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. Early life McPherson became paraplegic in infancy, after surviving polio. She used arm crutches, leg braces, and a wheelchair. She was a student at Vancouver's Little Flower Academy, and attended Vancouver City College. Swimming career McPherson competed in the first Pan American Wheelchair Games, held in Winnipeg in 1967, and won seven gold medals in swimming events. She won three medals in the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. She was the youngest British Columbian on the Canadian national team. In 1969, she swam on a relay team with Gwen John, Hilda Binns, and Elaine Ell, and won seven medals at the Pan-American Wheelchair Games in Buenos Aires. In 1971 she competed in the Western Washington Wheelchair Games in Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It ...
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Walter Dann
Walter Dann (born c.1946) is a Canadian Wheelchair Athletics Athlete who has competed in the 1968, 1972 and the 1976 Summer Paralympics. He won silver in the Men's 4x60m Wheelchair Relay (with F. Henderson, B. Simpson and Eugene Reimer) and the Novices 60m Wheelchair Dash C. He was born in Vancouver, before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia. A victim of polio when he was three, he won the highest badge in scouting when he was 15. See also *Canada at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Canada competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished twelfth in the medal table and won a total of nineteen medals; six gold, six silver and seven bronze. The Canadian team contained tw ... References Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 19 ...
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Hilda Mae Binns
Hilda May Binns (née Torok, later Longmate ; October 20, 1945–August 4, 2022 ) was a Canadian Paralympic athlete who competed in athletics and swimming events. Biography Binns was born in Hamilton, Ontario In 1945 and contracted polio in 1955. Her father built her an exercise bike to help her rehabilitation. Binns won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. She was a founder of Steel City Wheelers, and involved with the Hamilton Post Polio Association and the Hamilton Handicapped Club. Hilda May Torok married fellow polio survivor and athlete David Binns by 1973. Honors She was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction in 2018, and into the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. On 14 May 2021, Jovian asteroid 28958 Binns, discovered by astronomers with the LINEAR Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' pr ...
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Flag Of Canada
The national flag of Canada (french: le Drapeau national du Canada), often simply referred to as the Canadian flag or, unofficially, as the Maple Leaf or ' (; ), consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of , in which is featured a stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre. It is the first flag to have been adopted by both houses of Parliament and officially proclaimed by the Canadian monarch as the country's official national flag. The flag has become the predominant and most recognizable national symbol of Canada. In 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson formed a committee to resolve the ongoing issue of the lack of an official Canadian flag, sparking a serious debate about a flag change to replace the Union Flag. Out of three choices, the maple leaf design by George Stanley, based on the flag of the Royal Military College of Canada, was selected. The flag made its first official appearance on February 15, 1965; the date i ...
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