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| Born | 2 August 1980 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Boccia | ||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | BC3 | ||||||||||||||||
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Alison Kabush (born 2 August 1980) is a Canadian boccia player. She's won two bronze medals at the 2000 Paralympic Games and 2004 Paralympic Games.
Kabush grew up in Surrey, British Columbia and began playing Boccia with the provincial team at the age of 13. [1] She competed in her first Paralympics during the 2000 Paralympic Games, where she won a bronze medal. [2] Kabush was later named to Team Canada's Paralympic team prior to the 2004 Paralympic Games and won a bronze medal with partner Paul Gauthier. [3] In 2011, Kabush was selected to compete at the Boccia World Cup. [4] She was inducted into the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Sports Association's Hall of Fame in 2019. [5]
Alison Jane Sydor is a Canadian retired professional cross country mountain cyclist. She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals
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Karolina Wisniewska is a para-alpine standing skier. Born in Warsaw, she moved to Canada when she was 5 years old where she then took up skiing as a form of physical therapy for her cerebral palsy. Over the course of her skiing career, she won eight total Paralympic medals for skiing, and 18 medals at International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups. At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, she earned four medals, the most ever earned by a Canadian para-alpine skier at a single Games. Wisniewska retired from the sport for a second time in May 2012 following an injury in 2011 that resulted in her missing most of the 2011/2012 skiing season.
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Manuel Ángel Martín Pérez is a Spanish boccia player who is also known as Manolo Martín. He has cerebral palsy and is a BC2 type athlete.
Deborah Willows is a paralympic athlete from Canada competing mainly in category C1 events.
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