Chris Daw

Chris Daw
Medal record
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Chris Daw
Competitor for  Canada
Wheelchair curling
Paralympic Games
Gold 2006 Turin
World Wheelchair Curling Championship
Silver 2002 Sursee
Bronze 2004 Sursee
Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship
Gold 2003 Canada
Gold 2005 Canada
Gold 2006 Canada


Chris Daw (born February 1, 1970 in North York, Ontario) then moving to Strathroy, Ontario where he grew up. He is a Paralympian who has competed in adaptive track, marathon, basketball, rugby, and curling.[1] He was once considered the fastest wheelchair athlete. He is the only Canadian athlete to represent Canada at multiple Paralympic Games for 4 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 and set 6 world records at the first World Games for disabled youth. He was a member of the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Paralympic adaptive track teams. He was on the Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.

During Chris's athletic career he has attended over 125 National Championships, 64 World Championships, 5 Paralympics and 2 Olympics. For a medal total over 600+ for Canada including a dozen World Championships, 19 World records and Paralympic Gold medal performances. His sports have included Canadian representation for Track, Basketball, Rugby, Volleyball, and Curling. However he has also participated as an elite and high performance athlete in Field, Badminton and holds high level black belts in Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu.

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Curling

He entered curling in 2001. He was the skip of the Canadian team at the 2002 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Sursee, Switzerland, where the team won silver.[2] 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.[2] 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. [3]

In 2010, it was announced that Chris was returning to competitive curling by joining Jim Armstrong (curler). As Jim's second on a local BC team in provincial play-downs; with hopes of representing Team BC. Team Armstong was unsuccessful in capturing the 2011 Bc Championship title and Chris Daw's future in sport is unknown. [4][5]

Awards

In 2010, Chris was inducted into the London Sports Hall of Fame on September 23, 2010 at a ceremony including Christine Nesbitt and Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir.

He has been highly recognized for his accomplishments throughout is 31+ year career, one of the longest active Paralympic careers in history. One of the greatest honors Chris has received has been a World and International Achievements Awards in 1988.

Personal life

In 2006 it was reported that Chris had three children, with his now ex-wife Mari.[6]In March, 2009 Chris married his now current wife Morgan as former member of Canada's junior women's softball team. On February 23, 2010, Chris and current wife Morgan gave birth to their only daughter Arowyn Emma Ellie.[7]

In April 2010, Daw lost his mother Eleanor Daw at 63 years from a heart attack [8].

Chris now live in Ontario, Canada with wife, Morgan; sons, Kyle (15), Shane (9) and Tay(TJ) (6) and daughter Arowyn (2)

Results

Olympic Rings.svg Olympic Games
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Alternate Wheelchair Adaptive Track 1984  United States Los Angeles Alternate  Canada
IPC logo (2004).svg Paralympic Games
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Gold Wheelchair Curling [9] 2006  Italy Torino Skip  Canada
Did not medal Wheelchair Rugby [9] 2000  Australia Sydney Player #10  Canada
Did not medal Wheelchair Adaptive Track [9] 1988  South Korea Seoul Participant  Canada
IPC logo (2004).svg Para PanAM Games
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Bronze Sit-Volleyball 2007  Brazil Rio Player  Canada
Curling pictogram.svg World Wheelchair Curling Championship
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Silver Wheelchair curling [10] 2002  Switzerland Sursee Skip  Canada
Bronze Wheelchair curling [10] 2004  Switzerland Sursee Skip  Canada
6. Wheelchair curling [10] 2005  Scotland Glasgow Skip  Canada
4. Wheelchair curling 2007  Sweden Sollefteå Skip  Canada
Curling pictogram.svg Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Gold Wheelchair curling [11] 2003  Ontario Toronto Skip  Canada
Gold Wheelchair curling [11] 2005  British Columbia Richmond Skip  Canada
Gold Wheelchair curling [11] 2006  British Columbia Richmond Skip  Canada
6th [12] Wheelchair curling 2009  Nova Scotia Halifax Skip  Newfoundland and Labrador
Curling pictogram.svg Provinical Wheelchair Curling Championship
Finish Event Year Place Position Team
Bronze Wheelchair curling [11] 2011  British Columbia Kimberley 2nd Armstrong
Curling pictogram.svg Awards and Recognition
Award Awarded by; Description Place Year Country
Hall of Fame [13] City of London London Sports Hall of Fame  Ontario London, Ontario 2010  Canada
King Clancy Award [14] King Clancy Foundation Outstanding Performance  Ontario 2007  Canada
High Performance Coach of the Year Province of Ontario Coach of the Year, Wheelchair Athletics  Ontario 2007  Canada
International Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 2006  Canada
World Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 2006  Canada
National Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 2006  Canada
Provincial Achievement Award Province of Ontario Achievement Award  Ontario 2006  Canada
International Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 2000  Canada
World Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 2000  Canada
Celebration 88 Medal Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 1988  Canada
International Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 1988  Canada
World Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 1988  Canada
National Achievement Award Government of Canada Achievement Award  Canada 1988  Canada
Provincial Achievement Award Province of Ontario Achievement Award  Ontario 1988  Canada
Provincial Achievement Award Province of Ontario Achievement Award  Ontario 1987  Canada
Provincial Achievement Award Province of Ontario Achievement Award  Ontario 1986  Canada

References

  1. ^ Vancouver 2010 "Paralympic Perspectives"
  2. ^ a b "2007 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championships". wheelchaircurling.com. http://wheelchaircurling.com/docs/CWCC_2007_program.pdf. Retrieved 29 November 2010. 
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Times Online
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ Team Canada – Wheelchair curling
  7. ^ Vancouver Games boycott was for my wife and new daughter, reveals Daw
  8. ^ [3]
  9. ^ a b c Daw's profile on paralympic.org
  10. ^ a b c [4]
  11. ^ a b c d [5]
  12. ^ [6]
  13. ^ [7]
  14. ^ [8]

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