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Stacie Louttit

Stacie Louttit
Personal information
Nationality Canada
Citizenship Canadian
Born (1961-03-12) 12 March 1961 (age 55)
Great Falls, Montana, United States
Residence Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country  Canada
Sport Sailing

Stacie Louttit (born 12 March 1961) is a Canadian Paralympic sailor. She became the first female Canadian sailor to win a medal in the Olympics or Paralympics by winning a bronze medal in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing in the 2-person keelboat (SKUD18) and also competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

She was born in the U.S. city of Great Falls, Montana. Louttit broke her back in a skiing accident in 1994. In 1998, she began walking with a cane in 1998 and joined the Disabled Sailing Association of British Columbia.

Louttit qualified for her second games, the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, with crew John Scott McRoberts by winning a silver medal at the qualifier.


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