Priscilla Gagné (born May 21, 1986) is a partially blind
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...
ka. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
On August 21, 2021, Gagné was announced as Canada's flagbearer during the
2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
The 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony took place on 24 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the opening ceremony was "Moving Forward: We Have Wings" and thus surrounded around the theme of aviation, airplanes, ...
.
Career
Gagné won the bronze medal at the 2015 Para Judo World Cup.
She is a double
Parapan silver medalist and was the first Canadian female medalist in the IBSA World Championships.
Gagné will be inducted into the
Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame
The Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame (WWHOF) is a hall of fame which honors women who have performed in both women's professional wrestling and women's amateur wrestling.
History
The Hall of Fame was founded in 2021 by Angel Orsini, Christopher ...
in 2024.
See also
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Judo in Canada
The Japanese martial art and combat sport judo has been practised in Canada for over a century. The first long-term judo dojo in Canada, Tai Iku Dojo, was established by a Japanese immigrant named Shigetaka Sasaki, Shigetaka "Steve" Sasaki in Van ...
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List of Canadian judoka
This is a list of prominent Canadian judoka, including members of the Judo Canada Hall of Fame, lifetime members of Judo Canada, ''kōdansha'' (high ''dan''-holders), all participants in the Olympics, Paralympics, and World Judo Championships, a ...
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1986 births
Living people
People from Granby, Quebec
Sportspeople from Montérégie
Sportspeople from Quebec
Paralympic judoka for Canada
Canadian female judoka
Judoka at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
20th-century Canadian women
21st-century Canadian women
French Quebecers
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