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
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence	North Vancouver, British Columbia
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Paralympic swimming
Disability class	S7
Retired	2005
Medal record Paralympic swimming Representing  Canada Paralympic Games 2000 Sydney Women's 100m butterfly S8 2000 Sydney Women's 200m individual medley SM7 2000 Sydney Women's 4x100m medley relay 2004 Athens Women's 4x100m medley relay 1996 Atlanta Women's 100m backstroke S7 2004 Athens Women's 50m butterfly S7 World Championships 1994 Malta Women's 50m butterfly S7 1994 Malta Women'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.