{"id":110175,"date":"2024-01-24T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/?p=110175"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:21:07","slug":"canadian-paralympians-to-receive-equal-pay-at-2024-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/canadian-paralympians-to-receive-equal-pay-at-2024-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Paralympians to receive equal pay at 2024 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Paralympic Foundation of Canada announced a significant shift in the financial landscape for Paralympic athletes. Each Paralympic medallist for Canada, starting at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, will receive an equivalent prize to that of their Olympic counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The newly unveiled Paralympic Performance Recognition program, introduced at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., promises a significant shift in the financial landscape for Canadian Paralympic athletes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100701\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100701 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Brent-Lakatos-Athletics-Tokyo-1sept202137821.jpg\" alt=\"Brent Lakatos\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Brent-Lakatos-Athletics-Tokyo-1sept202137821.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Brent-Lakatos-Athletics-Tokyo-1sept202137821-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Brent-Lakatos-Athletics-Tokyo-1sept202137821-768x513.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/668;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian T53 Paralympian Brent Lakatos has 11 Paralympic medals to his resume and won four silver medals for Canada in Tokyo. Photo: Canadian Paralympic Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gold medallists will earn $20,000, silver medallists $15,000 and bronze medallists $10,000, which will create parity for Paralympic athletes.<\/p>\n<p>This pioneering program was made possible by an initial $8-million endowment from the Paralympic Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Paralympic Committee&#8217;s philanthropic partner.<a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/canadian-entrepreneur-donates-1-2-million-toward-olympic-and-paralympic-medallists\/\"> <strong>Sanjay Malaviya<\/strong><\/a>, CEO of healthcare tech company RL Solutions, contributed $4 million, with $2 million matched by the Canadian government, and an additional $2 million to be raised.<\/p>\n<p>Malaviya, reflecting on the moment, said in a press release that he believed this program was a long time coming. \u201cCanada\u2019s Paralympians are incredible athletes who unite all of us as they proudly represent our country, and I am thrilled to be able to support them and celebrate their accomplishments in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"meySqsjxdU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/canadian-paralympian-nate-riech-signs-professional-deal-with-asics\/\">Canadian Paralympian Nate Riech signs professional deal with ASICS<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content lazyload\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Canadian Paralympian Nate Riech signs professional deal with ASICS&#8221; &#8212; Canadian Running Magazine\" data-src=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/canadian-paralympian-nate-riech-signs-professional-deal-with-asics\/embed\/#?secret=hUltL0qV2b#?secret=meySqsjxdU\" data-secret=\"meySqsjxdU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Malaviya has <a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/canadian-entrepreneur-donates-1-2-million-toward-olympic-and-paralympic-medallists\/\">made a substantial donation to Canadian athletes<\/a>. In March 2022, Malaviya gave 130 Olympians and 53 Paralympians $5,000 each for winning a medal at the Tokyo (summer) and Beijing (winter) Games\u2014a donation of $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 128 athletes (57 men and 71 women) represented Team Canada at the 202 Tokyo Paralympic Games, with 21 athletes winning medals for Canada. Two of the five gold medals were won in athletics. Victoria&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/sections\/runs-races\/canadas-nate-riech-sets-paralympic-record-and-wins-gold-in-1500m\/\"><strong>Nate Riech<\/strong><\/a> won gold in the men&#8217;s T38 1,500m, and <a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/paralympic-gold-medallist-shot-putter-greg-stewart-announces-retirement\/\"><strong>Greg Stewart<\/strong><\/a> won gold in the men&#8217;s F46 shot put.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100732\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100732 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tokyo2020-Athletics-Riech-1205875.jpg\" alt=\"Nate Riech\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tokyo2020-Athletics-Riech-1205875.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tokyo2020-Athletics-Riech-1205875-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tokyo2020-Athletics-Riech-1205875-768x511.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/665;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Riech of Victoria raises the Canadian flag after winning and setting a world record in the men&#8217;s T38 1,500m. Photo: Canadian Paralympic Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Similar initiatives for Paralympic athletes also exist in other countries\u2014such as France, the U.S., and Australia\u2014and the program for Canadian Olympians has been in place since 2006. The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games will begin Aug. 28 and run until Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Paralympic medallist for Canada, starting at the 2024 Paralympic Games, will now receive the financial equivalent to that of their Olympic counterparts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5366,"featured_media":100590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[326036],"tags":[341740,339189,333521,336634,335400,332604,332757,324204,326250,337163],"class_list":["post-110175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-scene","tag-2024-paralympic-games","tag-2024-paris-olympics","tag-canadian-paralympic-committee","tag-greg-stewart","tag-marissa-papaconstantinou","tag-nate-riech","tag-paralympic-athletes","tag-paralympic-games","tag-running-news","tag-sanjay-malaviya"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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