Eugene Reimer

Eugene Reimer

Eugene Reimer wearing a Team Canada shirt in 1979
Personal information
Nickname	Gene
Born	(1940-01-21)21 January 1940 Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Died	9 June 2008(2008-06-09) (aged 68) Abbotsford, British Columbia
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Paralympic athletics
Medal record Summer Paralympics 1968 Tel Aviv Discus Throw B 1968 Tel Aviv Club Throw B 1968 Tel Aviv Javelin Throw B 1972 Heidelberg Discus Throw 4 1972 Heidelberg Pentathlon 4 1972 Heidelberg 4×60 m wheelchair relay open 1976 Toronto Discus Throw 4 1976 Toronto Discus Throw 4 1976 Toronto Pentathlon 4 1976 Toronto Javelin Throw 4 1980 Arnhem Discus Throw 4

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 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.