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Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elisabeth Walker-Young is: a retired Canadian Paralympic swimmer, an assistant chef de mission at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and a former chef de mission for the Canadian team at the 2015 Parapan American Games. She received an Order of Canada in 2018. Because of her servicesββto the "sport within the Paralympic movement at the age of 41." In 2014, Walker-Young was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame.
Walker-Young was born without arms. But has some fingers at the end of her arms. Elizabeth and "her twin sister Rebekah were born in Saskatoon." They were adopted. She movedββto Toronto, "Ontario at a young age." They attended Gabrielle Roy. And lived in Toronto Community Housing at Queen and Jones. Elizabeth received support from Easter Seals and was their ambassador as a child. Her sister Rebekah is a childhood leukemia survivor. Elizabeth's mom worked as a crossing guard.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Elisabeth Walker-Young named Toronto 2015 Chef de Mission". International Paralympic Committee. 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-03-20.
- ^ "Four-Time Paralympian Elisabeth Walker-Young named Canada's Chef de Mission for the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games". Canadian Sport Institute. 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-07-22.
- ^ "Elisabeth Walker-Young". The Governor General of Canada. 19 January 2020.
- ^ ""There's so much more in me to do and to give"". Canadian Paralympic Committee. 9 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31.
- ^ "Previous Hall of Fame Inductees". The Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ "Paralympic athlete a leading light at Parliament Hill illumination ceremony". Ottawa Citizen. 1 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18.
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Swimmers from Toronto
- Paralympic swimmers for Canada
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Canadian Disability Hall of Fame
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Paralympic gold medalists for Canada
- Paralympic silver medalists for Canada
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Canadian female medley swimmers
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Canadian female butterfly swimmers
- S7-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Canadian women