Shelley Gautier / en 老司机直播'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">老司机直播'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">老司机直播</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 老司机直播 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, 鈥淩oad to Rio 2016.鈥</p> <p>鈥淚 am going there to do my best,鈥 she wrote on the blog&nbsp;last month. 鈥淚 have to keep my focus and ride, training hard鈥hinking about what I need to do, diet, weight training, gym, speed, cadence. I want to do well.鈥</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>鈥淚 want people with disabilities to be involved in their community,鈥 she said in a recent interview. 鈥淭hey can do something good for other people. And we can get people with disabilities employed so we can do good for them as well.鈥</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 老司机直播, 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 老司机直播 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