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Born | North York, Ontario | February 1, 1970|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Strathroy, Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Strathroy District Collegiate Institute | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Tennessee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Motivational Speaker, Department of National Defense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | chrisdaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Christopher Daw (born February 1, 1970, in North York, Ontario) is a paralympian in wheelchair sports. Internationally, he competed in adaptive track, marathons, wheelchair basketball, volleyball, wheelchair rugby, and curling for Canada.[1]
In 1986, Daw won 6 Gold medals and set 6 world records at the first World Games for disabled youth in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He was a member of the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Paralympic adaptive track teams; a member of the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball team, and member of the Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics before taking up wheelchair curling in 2000 when he then won the first ever Gold Medal in the sport in Torino in 2006.