Paris 2024 Day 10 Preview: Canada playing for bronze in sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball – Canadian Paralympic Committee

– Brianna Hennessy racing in Para canoe final; Roberta Sheffield in action in Para equestrian 
– Final day of competition for Para swimming, Para athletics, Para cycling

Paris, September 6, 2024 – The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games is down to its penultimate day, and Canadian athletes remain in content for medal positions. Canada’s women’s sitting volleyball and men’s wheelchair basketball teams will contest bronze-medal games, while Brianna Hennessy is racing in a Para canoe final. Canada’s Para athletics, Para swimming, and Para cycling athletes will conclude their Paris 2024 campaigns as well. Here is what is coming up for the Paris 2024 Canadian Paralympic Team on Day 10, Saturday September 7:   

Sitting Volleyball  
The Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team is setting its sights on a first-ever Paralympic medal. Facing off against Brazil for the bronze medal at 3 p.m. CEST / 9 a.m. ET, Canada will be aiming to reverse its results from the Tokyo 2020 Games, where it lost to the Brazilians for a fourth-place finish. In preliminary play, the two nations played a hard-fought match with the South American country taking it 3-1.  

Wheelchair Basketball  
Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team will play for the bronze medal at 4 p.m. CEST / 10 a.m. ET against Germany. The squad has already secured its best Paralympic finish since 2012 by making the semifinals and improved upon its eighth place at the Tokyo 2020 Games. The Canadians defeated Germany in the group stage earlier this week and will hope for the same result on Saturday.  

Para Canoe  
Brianna Hennessy will be aiming for Canada’s first-ever Paralympic medal in the sport of Para canoe when she hits the start line at 11:52 a.m. CEST / 5:42 a.m. ET in the women’s va’a single 200m VL2 final. She moved directly into the A final by winning her heat on Friday.  

Erica Scarff will be hoping to join her in a final. She will race in the women’s va’a single 200m VL3 semifinals at 10:49 a.m. CEST / 4:49 a.m. ET. The finals will take place in the early afternoon.  

Para Equestrian 
Roberta Sheffield and Fairuza will compete for Canada in the Grade II individual freestyle at Chateau de Versailles, starting at 2:06 p.m. CEST / 8:06 a.m. ET. The pair qualified for the freestyle through a sixth-place finish in the individual event on Tuesday.  

Para Cycling Road 
Alexander Hayward and Nathan Clement will bring it home for Canada in Para cycling action as the last two racers set for Paris 2024. Hayward will start in the men’s C1-3 road race at 9:30 a.m. CEST / 3:30 a.m. ET with Clement following at 12:45 p.m. CEST / 6:45 a.m. ET in the men’s T1-2 category.   

Para Athletics  
Competition is down to the final day at Stade de France, with two Canadians competing in the day session and up to three in the evening, including defending Paralympic champion Nate Riech.  

Austin Smeenk will race in the men’s T34 800m final at 10:11 a.m. CEST / 4:11 a.m. ET. A bronze medallist in the 100m earlier this week, he is the world record holder in this distance. Sheriauna Haase will race in her second Paralympic event, the women’s T47 200m heats at 12:46 p.m. CEST / 6:46 a.m. ET looking to advance into the evening finals.  

It is then Riech’s turn in the spotlight in the evening, as he will line up for the men’s T38 1500m final at 7:09 p.m. CEST / 1:09 p.m. ET. Joining him will be Noah Vucsics, making his Paralympic Games debut, in the men’s T20 long jump final at 7:20 p.m. CEST / 1:20 p.m. ET.  

Should Haase advance into her final, she will also then compete at 7:43 p.m. CEST / 1:43 p.m. ET.  

Para Swimming  
After a full nine days of swimming at the pool, it is down to the final day. Canadian Para swimmers will be racing in seven events.  

First up in the morning heats will be Alexander Elliot and Fernando Lu in the men’s 200m individual medley SM10 starting at 9:30 a.m. CEST / 3:30 a.m. ET.  

They will be followed by: Katie Cosgriffe in the women’s 200m individual medley SM10, Shelby Newkirk in the women’s 100m backstroke S6, Reid Maxwell in the men’s 100m butterfly S8, Tess Routliffe and Danielle Dorris in the women’s 50m butterfly S7, and Clemence Pare and Hannah Ouellette in the women’s 200m individual medley SM5.  

Finals start at 5:30 p.m. CEST / 11:30 a.m. ET. Already set for the evening is the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay team of Aurelie Rivard, Elliot, Maxwell, and Newkirk racing at 8:34 p.m. CEST / 2:34 p.m. ET.  

The complete schedule for September 7 can be found on the Paris 2024 website HERE.  

HOW TO WATCH 
Audiences can tune in for CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of Paris 2024 in English on CBC, CBC Gem, CBC’s Paris 2024 website (cbc.ca/paris2024) and the CBC Paris 2024 app for Android and iOS devices, and in French on ICI TÉLÉ, ICI TOU.TV, Radio-Canada’s Paris 2024 website (Radio-Canada.ca/jeux-paralympiques), and the Radio-Canada Paralympiques app for Android and iOS devices.