Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team ends Paralympic team sport podium drought
By The Canadian Press on September 7, 2024.
PARIS – The Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team has earned a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris. It’s the first Paralympic medal in a team sport for Canada since the men’s wheelchair basketball team won gold in London in 2012. The Canadian women swept Brazil 3-0 to reach the podium and gained a measure of revenge from Tokyo’s Paralympics three years ago. Canada lost the bronze-medal game to Brazil in Tokyo. The Canadian women also lost 3-1 to the Brazilians in pool play in Paris. Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team fell 75-62 to Germany in the bronze-medal game in Paris. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 7, 2024. 8-7
