1940 - 2008
Eugene Reimer Basketball
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Details
| Birthday |
21st January, 1940
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| Birthplace |
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
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| Died |
9th June, 2008
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| Place of Death |
Abbotsford, British Columbia
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Occupation |
Basketball
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Eugene "Gene" Reimer (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.
