Brian McKeever
Brian McKeever  
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 Brian McKeever at the 2014 Winter Paralympics |
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 Canada
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| birthday | 18th June 1979 (age 41) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Calgary , Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cross-country skiing biathlon |
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| National squad | since 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brian McKeever (born June 18, 1979 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete . He took part in the Winter Paralympics in 2002 , 2006 , 2010 and 2014, and currently in the Winter Paralympics in 2018 .
Career
Brian McKeever started cross-country skiing at the age of three. At 19 he began to see worse and worse and was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease . Two years later he was officially considered blind . His eyesight is only ten percent. In 2002 McKeever took part in the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City , where he won two gold medals and one silver medal. Four years later he took part in the Winter Paralympics in Turin , where he won two gold, one silver and one bronze medal. Since 2004 he has mainly participated in the cross-country skiing Nor-Am-Cup . He has had three victories so far and in the 2015/16 season reached eighth place in the overall standings. He made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup in Vernon in December 2005 , finishing 54th in the sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , he won 39th place in the skiathlon , 33rd place in the 50 km mass start race and 21st place over 15 km freestyle. In 2010, Brian McKeever was nominated for the Canadian cross-country skiing team at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , but not used. This would have made him the first winter athlete to have participated in both the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics. 2010, 2011 and 2015 he won the 42 km freestyle in the Merino pattern . In February 2017 he got his first World Cup points in Pyeongchang with the 29th place in the skiathlon.
At the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi , he won his seventh gold medal in the 20 km freestyle competition and repeated this success four years later at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang .
Web links
- Brian McKeever in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Brian McKeever on paralympic.org
- Profile of Brian McKeever on paralympic.ca (English, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b n-tv.de: Nominated for Vancouver: McKeever writes Olympic history , accessed on January 27, 2010
- ↑ a b Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: McKeever writes history , accessed on January 27, 2010
- ↑ Result Merino sample 2015
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| SURNAME | McKeever, Brian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calgary , Canada |