Canada is scheduled to compete in the 2023 Parapan American Games in
Santiago,
Chile from 17 November to 26 November 2023. The country was represented by 136 competitors in 14 sports at the 2023 games.
player
Rob Shaw and paralympic
cyclist Shelley Gautier
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were the country's flagbearers during the
opening ceremony
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The Canadian team did not compete in the sports of
football 5-a-side (blind football),
powerlifting and
taekwondo.
Medalists
The following Canadian competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
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Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games in each sport/discipline.
Archery
Canada qualified one athlete to the games and nominated
Kyle Tremblay to the role on September 12, 2023.
;Men
Athletics
The athletics team received a collective 13 medals and set 3 national records.
Sheriauna Haase, the youngest Canadian athletics competitor at the 2023 Games, won the bronze in the women's T47 100m and 200m.
;Men
;;Track events
;;Field events
;Women
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Badminton
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Boccia
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Cycling
Road
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Track
;Men
;Women
Football 7-a-side
;Summary
;Roster
The team roster of 14 athletes was named.
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Samuel Denton
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Christopher Fawcett
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Ryan Watson
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Nicholas Heffernan
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Samuel Charron
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Dante Del Cul
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* Dustin, Oklahoma
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Duncan McDonald
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Daniel White
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Diego Gilbert
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Raji Kamoun
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Silviu Butnaru
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Cuauhtemoc Flores
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Isaiah Smeaton-Katzenberg
Goalball
;Summary
;Men's roster
The team roster of 6 athletes was named.
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Ahmad Zeividavi
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Steven Brice Parker
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Aaron Prevost
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Lorne Blair Nesbitt
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Allen Douglas Ripley
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Jeffrey Scott
;Women's roster
The team roster of 6 athletes was named.
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Whitney Bogart
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Meghan Mahon
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Emma-leigh Heather
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Tracy Baldock
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Amy Burk
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Maryam Salehizadeh
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Judo
;Men
;Women
Shooting
;Mixed
Swimming
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Table tennis
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
Wheelchair basketball
;Summary
;Men's roster
The team roster of 12 athletes was named.
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Nikola Goncin
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Garret Ostepchuk
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Vincent Dallaire
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Blaise Mutware
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Colin Higgins
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Lee Melymic
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Chad Jassmann
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Patrick Anderson
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Jonathan Vermette
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Tyler Miller
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Reed De'Aeth
;Women's roster
The team roster of 12 athletes was named.
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Rosalie Lalonde
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Élodie Tessier
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Arinn Young
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Cindy Ouellet
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Early life
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Tamara Steeves
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Puisand Lai
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Tara Llanes
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Bethany Johnson
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Kady Dandeneau
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Sofia Fassi Fehri
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Melanie Hawtin
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Desiree Isaac Pictou
Wheelchair rugby
;Summary
;Roster
The team roster of 12 athletes was named.
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Rio Kanda Kovac
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Travis Murao
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Byron Green
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Mike Whitehead
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Cody Caldwell
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Trevor Hirschfield
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Matthew Debly
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Zak Madell
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Eric Furtado Rodrigues
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Wheelchair tennis
;Men
;Women
;Quad
See also
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Canada at the 2023 Pan American Games
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Canada at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
References
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