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Katie Pegg
Katie Pegg (born June 19, 2004) is a Canadian football player and para-athlete who competes in the women's F46 shot put. Early life and education Pegg was born without a radial bone in her right forearm. She was first introduced to shotput in grade three and began playing football in sixth grade. Career Pegg was the only girl competing in her league in Scarborough when she played for the Scarborough Thunder high school team. She played defensive tackle. Pegg played one year of football with the Halifax Explosion women's football team. In her second year of university, Pegg joined the Saint Mary's University Huskies track and field team. She competed against able-bodied athletes in shot put in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) conference, finishing fourth at the AUS championship in Moncton, New Brunswick. She competed as a para-athlete for the first time at the Fazza International Championships in Dubai, part of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2024. She won gold in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markham, Ontario
Markham () is a city in Regional Municipality of York, York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, 16th largest in Canada. The city gained its name from the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe (in office 1791–1796), who named the area after his friend, William Markham (bishop), William Markham, the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807. Indigenous people lived in the area of present-day Markham for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area. The first European settlement in Markham occurred when William Moll Berczy, William Berczy, a German artist and developer, led a group of approximately sixty-four German families to North America. While they planned to settle in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 World Para Athletics Championships
The 2024 World Para Athletics Championships was a para-athletics meet organized by the World Para Athletics, the respective sport branch of the International Paralympic Committee. This was the 11th edition of the event and was held at Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Japan, from 17 to 25 May 2024. This was the first time the event was held in East Asia. The event was initially scheduled for September 2021 but it was rescheduled to avoid clashing with the 2020 Summer Paralympics which were rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2022, the organisers requested World Para Athletics for postponement of the event until 2024 due to COVID-19 concerns. A week later, World Para Athletics confirmed that the event would not be held in 2022. Event details Medal table Placing Table Source: Points were awarded for each athlete finishing in the top 8 of their competition, on a 8 to 1 point scale. Participation Source: 1073 athletes from 103 National Paralympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shot Putters With Limb Difference
Shot may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Shot'' (album), by The Jesus Lizard *''Shot, Illusion, New God'', an EP by Gruntruck *'' Shot Rev 2.0'', a video album by The Sisters of Mercy * "Shot" (song), by The Rasmus * ''Shot'' (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle *Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts Organizations *Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK *Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology Sports *Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points *Home run, or shot in baseball slang *Shot put, an event in track and field athletics *SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry *Cricket shots, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket Weaponry and ballistics *Shot (pellet), small balls of metal generally used as shotgun pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Mary's Huskies Women's Track And Field Athletes
In Christianity, Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of sanctification in Christianity, holiness, imitation of God, likeness, or closeness to God in Christianity, God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denomination. In Anglican Communion, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheranism, Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but a selected few are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official Ecclesiastical polity, ecclesiastical recognition, and veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church after their approval. In many Protestant denominations, and following from Pauline usage, ''saint'' refers broadly to any holy Christian, without special recognition or selection. While the English word ''saint'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
