Chris Daw
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February 1, 1970 North York, Ontario |
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| Education | Strathroy District Collegiate Institute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Athlete, Executive Director/General Manager, Motivational Speaker, Business Consultant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 275 lb (125 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | M. Brown 1993-2006 M. Perry 2009-2015 |
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| Website | http://www.chrisdaw.ca http://wcblog2.com http://wheelchaircurler.blogspot.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Canada
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Christopher (Chris) Daw (born February 1, 1970 in North York, Ontario) is a Paralympian who competed in adaptive track, marathons, wheelchair basketball, volleyball, wheelchair rugby, and curling for Canada. He was once considered the fastest wheelchair athlete in 1995 though 1997, and is the only Canadian athlete to represent Canada at multiple Paralympic Games for multiple different sports. He is also one of the few athletes to represent Canada at both Summer & Winter Paralympic Games. In 1986, he won 6 Gold medals and set 6 world records at the first World Games for disabled youth in Nottingham, England. He was a member of the 1984 & 1988 Canadian Paralympic adaptive track teams; a member of the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball team, and a member of the Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics before taking up wheelchair curling in 2000.
During Daw's athletic career he has attended over 125 National Championships, 64 World Championships, 3 Paralympics and 1 Olympics for a medal total over 600 for Canada including a dozen World Championships, 19 World records and Paralympic medal performances. Some of his sports include Canadian representation for Track, Basketball, Rugby, Volleyball, and Curling. However; he has also participated as an elite athlete in Field, Badminton and countless others at international, national and provincial levels.
He entered curling in 2000. He was the skip of the Canadian team at the 2002 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Sursee, Switzerland, where the team won silver. Two years later, he would again be the skip of the Canadian team and the Wheelchair Curling championship, again in Sursee, where the team won bronze. He would be the skip of the Canadian team, which won Gold in Wheelchair curling at the 2006 Winter Paralympics. In 2007 he withdrew his name from the Team Canada selection process that could have led to a spot on the 2010 Winter Paralympics. He resurfaced as part of the Wheelchair Curling Team for Newfoundland as Skip in 2008, only to relocate to British Columbia in 2009. He was the General manager of the Vancouver Curling Club when it took over the Olympic Curling center (now Hillcrest Center) in 2011. Daw returned to Ontario in 2011 for undisclosed reasons.
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