Paralympics / en 'Etched my name in history': Kylie Masse talks to CBC about winning bronze at Paris Olympics /news/etched-my-name-history-kylie-masse-talks-cbc-about-winning-bronze-paris-olympics <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">'Etched my name in history': Kylie Masse talks to CBC about winning bronze at Paris Olympics</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2024-08/GettyImages-2164964278-crop.jpg?h=e21542f7&amp;itok=vbe8qsmP 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2024-08/GettyImages-2164964278-crop.jpg?h=e21542f7&amp;itok=KKVlcg7B 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2024-08/GettyImages-2164964278-crop.jpg?h=e21542f7&amp;itok=Wk0Kd-0E 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2024-08/GettyImages-2164964278-crop.jpg?h=e21542f7&amp;itok=vbe8qsmP" alt="Kyli Masse holds up her bronze medal in front of the Eiffel Tower at the 2024 summer olympics"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-08-09T14:13:25-04:00" title="Friday, August 9, 2024 - 14:13" class="datetime">Fri, 08/09/2024 - 14:13</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item"><p><em>(photo by Jack Guez/Getty Images)</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-kinesiology-physical-education" hreflang="en">Faculty of Kinesiology &amp; Physical Education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/olympics" hreflang="en">Olympics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/paralympics" hreflang="en">Paralympics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/summer-olympics" hreflang="en">Summer Olympics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/varsity-blues" hreflang="en">Varsity Blues</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">山ǿ alumna is the first Canadian swimmer to win an individual medal in three consecutive Olympic Games</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>With the Paris Games set to wrap up with Sunday's closing ceremony, University of Toronto alumna&nbsp;<strong>Kylie Masse</strong>&nbsp;says she’s proud to have secured her place in history as the first Canadian swimmer to win an individual Olympic medal in three consecutive Games,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kylie-masse-interview-1.7285672" target="_blank">CBC reports</a>.</p> <p>Masse, who graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology &amp; Physical Education in 2019, took home the bronze in the women's 200-metre backstroke final in Paris last week, adding to her impressive medal collection.&nbsp;</p> <p>Masse first ascended the podium during her Olympic debut in Rio in 2016, clinching bronze in the 100-metre backstroke. She earned both individual and team accolades at the previous Summer Games in Tokyo, capturing silver in the women’s 100-metre and 200-metre backstroke events, alongside a bronze in the women’s 4x100-metre medley relay.</p> <p>In addition to her third-place win in Paris, Masse also achieved fourth-place finishes in the 100-metre backstroke and 4x100-metre team medley.</p> <p>"To really be on the podium here was my goal," Masse told CBC. "But it's also such a dream to … know that I've kind of etched my name in history."</p> <p>Masse was joined by <a href="/news/u-t-community-members-head-paris-olympics-members-team-canada">four fellow&nbsp;Varsity Blues alumni at the Summer Games</a>, including badminton star&nbsp;<strong>Michelle Li</strong>, volleyball player&nbsp;<strong>Heather Bansley</strong>, and track and field competitors&nbsp;<strong>Jazz Shukla&nbsp;</strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Lucia Stafford</strong>.</p> <p>山ǿ talent will also be on display at the upcoming Paralympic Games, which run from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8, with former Blues rower&nbsp;<a href="https://varsityblues.ca/news/2024/5/23/rowing-rowing-alumna-dumas-qualifies-for-paralympics-with-brazil.aspx"><strong>Alina Dumas&nbsp;</strong>representing Brazil</a> as the coxswain of its PR3 coxed four crew.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kylie-masse-interview-1.7285672" target="_blank">Read more about Kylie Masse at CBC</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:13:25 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 308939 at 山ǿ's Shelley Gautier wins bronze at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games /news/u-t-s-shelley-gautier-wins-bronze-rio-2016-paralympic-games <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">山ǿ's Shelley Gautier wins bronze at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-09-15T15:33:38-04:00" title="Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 15:33" class="datetime">Thu, 09/15/2016 - 15:33</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Above; Gautier competes in the London 2012 Olympics (photo by Phillip MacCallum, courtesy the Canadian Paralympic Committee.)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/noreen-ahmed-ullah" hreflang="en">Noreen Ahmed-Ullah</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Noreen Ahmed-Ullah</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/paralympics" hreflang="en">Paralympics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/shelley-gautier" hreflang="en">Shelley Gautier</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sports" hreflang="en">Sports</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Cyclist and 山ǿ alumna&nbsp;<strong>Shelley Gautier</strong> has scored a bronze medal for Canada at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.</p> <p>Gautier, who was a practicing physiotherapist and avid cyclist until a mountain bike accident left the right side of her body paralyzed, chronicled her journey to the podium in<a href="https://shelleygautier.wordpress.com/">&nbsp;her blog</a> titled, “Road to Rio 2016.”</p> <p>“I am going there to do my best,” she wrote on the blog&nbsp;last month. “I have to keep my focus and ride, training hard…Thinking about what I need to do, diet, weight training, gym, speed, cadence. I want to do well.”</p> <p>Gautier captured the bronze in the tricycle category September 14. She participates in the Road Race September 16.</p> <p>A 12-time tricycling world champion, she has won silver twice at the Parapan Am Games:&nbsp;in Toronto last year and in Guadalajara in 2011. She also competed at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.</p> <h3><a href="/news/champion-sport-meet-alumna-and-paracyclist-shelley-gautier">Read more about Shelley Gautier</a></h3> <p>Through her Shelley Gautier Para-Sport Foundation, she has also helped others find happiness through sports. The foundation has&nbsp;organized recreational paracycling programs in Hamilton, Niagra and Brantford&nbsp;where people with disabilities have been introduced to paracycling through hand cycles and tandem bikes.&nbsp;The foundation hopes to take similar&nbsp;program into schools&nbsp;for other sports like sailing and sledge hockey. Gautier is also working with a foundation in Kenya to start a tandem riding program at a school for the blind.&nbsp;</p> <p>“I want people with disabilities to be involved in their community,” she said in a recent interview. “They can do something good for other people. And we can get people with disabilities employed so we can do good for them as well.”</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__1958 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/tweetshelley.JPG" style="width: 519px; height: 570px; margin-left: 115px; margin-right: 115px;" typeof="foaf:Image"></p> <p>Her 2001 biking accident left Gautier with a head injury that initially had her in a coma for six weeks, then eight months of intensive rehabilitation. She has hemiplegia, which is paralysis on one side of the&nbsp;body.</p> <p>At first, Gautier took up disabled sailing, then switched to cycling. She competes in the T1 tricycle class with the extra wheel providing assistance with balance.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gautier, who has a physiotherapy degree from 山ǿ, has stayed involved with the university community. She taught anatomy as a teaching assistant for the department of occupational science and occupational therapy. Last year, she received the 2015 University of Toronto, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Alumni Association Above &amp; Beyond Award and spoke to Governing Council last fall, following the Toronto 2015&nbsp;Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.</p> <h3><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__1954 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/2016-09-15--pan-am-gautier.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 400px; margin-left: 37px; margin-right: 37px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <br> <a href="/news/remembering-toronto-2015-pan-amparapan-am-games">Read more about her appearance at Governing Council</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:33:38 +0000 ullahnor 100427 at