Institut national du sport du Québec  – Montreal, September 7, 2016 – With the opening today of the XVth summer Paralympic Games, the Institut national du sport du Québec (INS Québec) is proud to support 35 Team Canada athletes as they prepare to compete. These athletes represent 92% of Quebec athletes who are members of the 164-athlete delegation.

Hailing from nine different sports, these Paralympians were able to make use of cutting edge facilities and equipment, as well as professional, technical and technological INS Québec resources. Athletes competing in boccia, cycling, swimming, goalball, judo and fencing have had regular access to INS Québec’s high performance complex.

Furthermore, the national boccia team is now able to enjoy its own training area within the Complex. This space, which meets international competition standards, is the first devoted to the national team for high performance training purposes. The team’s addition to the Complex has also made it easier for the athletes to have access to personalized sports-medicine services adapted to their needs.

Our experts in physiology, biomechanics and physical training have also provided support to swimmers with their preparations, in optimizing their movements, and with their training throughout the Olympic cycle.

INS Québec, whose core mission involves research and innovation, works among other things, toward facilitating access to services dedicated to its paralymic athletes. In providing integrated services that are comparable to the best practices in the world, athletes and coaches can thus compete on equal terms with the best in the world.

INS Québec is also a member of the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute (COPSI) Network. This network, which includes four institutes and three centres, supports high-performance athletes and their coaches by providing essential services in the pursuit of athletic and personal excellence. Seventy-five percent of Team Canada’s athletes participating in the Rio Paralympic Games received support and training from the COPSI Network.

To learn more about INS Québec’s services or for media interviews, a list of experts is available on our website.

Quebec Paralympians in Rio supported by INS Québec:

 

First Name	Name	Sport
Alex	Dupont	Athletics
Diane	Roy	Athletics
Guillaume	Ouellet	Athletics
Ilana	Dupont	Athletics
Jean-Philippe	Maranda	Athletics
Alison	Levine	Boccia
Bruno	Garneau	Boccia
Eric	Bussiere	Boccia
Iulian	Ciobanu	Boccia
Marco	Dispaltro	Boccia
Marylou	Martineau	Boccia
Charles	Moreau	Cycling
Daniel	Chalifour	Cycling
Jean-Michel	Lachance	Cycling
Marie-Claude	Molnar	Cycling
Marie-Eve	Croteau	Cycling
Nicole	Clermont	Cycling
Shelley	Gautier	Cycling
Audrey	Lemieux	Cycling (Robbi Weldon’s Pilot)
Pierre	Mainville	Wheelchair Fencing
Bruno	Haché	Goalball
Nancy	Morin	Goalball
Priscilla	Gagné	Judo
Aurélie	Rivard	Swimming
Benoit	Huot	Swimming
Camille	Bérubé	Swimming
Devin	Gotell	Swimming
Isaac	Bouckley	Swimming
James	Leroux	Swimming
Jean-Michel	Lavallière	Swimming
Nicholas	Turbide	Swimming
Sabrina	Duchesne	Swimming
Sarah	Mehain	Swimming
Christine	Gauthier	Para-canoe
Philippe	Bédard	Wheelchair Tennis

 

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Headquartered in Montreal’s Olympic Park, the Institut national du sport du Québec (INS Québec) is a private organization that aims to allow all high-performance athletes and coaches in Quebec to develop in a world-class training environment. A key partner of sport systems in Quebec and Canada, INS Québec serves over 500 athletes and 900 coaches in the high-performance community. A Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute (COPSI) Network member, INS Québec coordinates a network of eight regional multi-sport training centres and seven single-sport training centres across Quebec. INS Québec receives support from the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur, Sport Canada, Own the Podium, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Olympic Foundation, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Coaching Association of Canada, in addition to private partners such as CISCO, Bell, Mondo, Teknion | Roy & Breton, Côté Fleury, Inaxsys, B2dix and Sports Experts. | www.insquebec.org

 

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