Elisabeth Walker-Young

Elisabeth Walker-Young is a retired Canadian Paralympic swimmer, an assistant chef de mission at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and a former chef de mission for the Canadian team at the 2015 Parapan American Games.[1][2] She received an Order of Canada in 2018 because of her services to the sport within the Paralympic movement at the age of 41.[3][4] In 2014, Walker-Young was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame.[5]

Elisabeth Walker-Young
Personal information
BornToronto, Ontario, Canada
Sport
Country Canada
SportParalympic swimming
Disability classS7
Retired2005
Medal record
Paralympic swimming
Representing  Canada
Paralympic Games
2000 SydneyWomen's 100m butterfly S8
2000 SydneyWomen's 200m individual medley SM7
2000 SydneyWomen's 4x100m medley relay
2004 AthensWomen's 4x100m medley relay
1996 AtlantaWomen's 100m backstroke S7
2004 AthensWomen's 50m butterfly S7
World Championships
1994 MaltaWomen's 50m butterfly S7
1994 MaltaWomen's 200m individual medley SM7

Walker-Young was born without arms but has some fingers at the end of her arms.[6]

References
  1. "Elisabeth Walker-Young named Toronto 2015 Chef de Mission". International Paralympic Committee. 5 May 2014.
  2. "Four-Time Paralympian Elisabeth Walker-Young named Canada's Chef de Mission for the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games". Canadian Sport Institute. 5 May 2014.
  3. "Elisabeth Walker-Young". The Governor General of Canada. 19 January 2020.
  4. ""There's so much more in me to do and to give"". Canadian Paralympic Committee. 9 January 2019.
  5. "Previous Hall of Fame Inductees". The Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  6. "Paralympic athlete a leading light at Parliament Hill illumination ceremony". Ottawa Citizen. 1 December 2014.
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