Eugene Reimer
(1940-2008)
Canadian paralympic athlete
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Eugene "Gene" Reimer CM (21 January 1940 – 9 June 2008) was a Canadian wheelchair Paralympic athlete who won 10 Paralympic medals and 50 Canadian and Pan-American medals from 1968 to 1980. Having suffered from polio at an early age, he was a member of the wheelchair basketball team Vancouver Cable Cars alongside Terry Fox and Rick Hansen. In 1972, Reimer became the first person with a disability to be named Canada's Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year and to be inducted into the Order of Canada.
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21 January 1940 Swift Current, Saskatchewan
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9 June 2008 (aged 68) Abbotsford, British Columbia
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