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| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1963or1964(age 58–59) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lee Grenon (born 1963 or 1964) is a Canadian retired Paralympic swimmer. He competed at the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Paralympics. [2] He is from North Vancouver, British Columbia. [1]
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Richard Marvin Hansen is a Canadian track and field athlete, activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. Following a pickup truck crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury and became a paraplegic. Hansen is most famous for his Man in Motion World Tour, in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for charity. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He was one of the final torchbearers in the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was profiled and spoke during the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.
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Canada was the host country of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, in Vancouver, the first time it had hosted the Winter Paralympics.
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