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| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para-athletics Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jackie Mitchell (born 1959/1960) [1] [2] [lower-alpha 1] is a Canadian paralympic athlete and swimmer. She competed at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Paralympics.
Mitchell attended A. N. Myer Secondary School. [3] [lower-alpha 2]
Mitchell competed at the 1976 Summer Paralympics, winning the bronze medal in the women's 100 m backstroke D event. [4] She then competed at the 1980 Summer Paralympics, winning three silver medals and a gold medal in swimming. [5]
Canada has competed at 28 Summer Olympic Games, missing only the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics and the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. This count includes the 1906 Olympic Games, deemed unofficial 43 years after they were held. The nation made its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Canada competes under the IOC country code CAN.
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Brazil made its Paralympic Games debut at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, sending representatives to compete in track and field, archery, swimming and wheelchair basketball. The country has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since.
Australia has participated in every Summer Paralympic Games since the inception of the Paralympics in the year 1960. The 1976 Paralympic Games in Toronto was Australia's fifth Paralympic Games. Australia competed in 10 out of the 13 sports and were able to win medals in six of these sports. There were 44 athletes representing Australia at the Games with a number of these athletes participating in multiple sports. Of the 44 athletes, 34 were males and 10 were females. As a team, Australia won 41 medals, 16 of which were gold. This placed it just outside the top 10 in 11th position at the end of the Games. The Australian team won more gold medals at the 1976 Paralympic Games than at any of the previous four Paralympic Games. 26 athletes finished on the podium in their respective events. This represents more than half the number of athletes that Australia sent to Toronto. Six world records were broken by Australian athletes on their way to winning their respective events.
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Summer Ashley Mortimer is a Canadian-Dutch former paraswimmer who competed internationally for Canada, and later the Netherlands national paralympic team, an artist, a performing artist, and CBC Sports personality.
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