CCA - National Team: Brian Cowie


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Brian Cowie

Name:	Brian Cowie
Hometown:	Burnaby, BC
Date of Birth:	June 7, 1952
Sport:	Paracycling (tandem) – Road and Track
Team:
Occupation:	Full-time athlete
Member of Canadian National Team since:	1998

Results Highlights

COMPETITION	EVENT	RANK
2008 Tim Hortons Nationals	Road race	1
2007 Pan Am Championships	Individual Pursuit	2
2007 Pan Am Championships	Kilo	2
2007 Pan Am Championships	Time Trial	2
2004 Paralympic Games, Athens, GRE	Individual Pursuit	8
2004 Paralympic Games, Athens, GRE	Kilo	12
2004 Paralympic Games, Athens, GRE	Sprint	11
2004 Paralympic Games, Athens, GRE	Time trials road race	20
2000 Paralympic Games, Sydney, AUS	Individual Pursuit	11
2000 Paralympic Games, Sydney, AUS	Kilo	3
2000 Paralympic Games, Sydney, AUS	Sprint	10
1998 World Championships	Individual Time trial	2

2008 – headed to his third consecutive Paralympic Games… races in tandem with 25-year-old pilot Devon Smibert…They are ranked second in the world…trained in Australia in the month of August to simulate time zone… Cowie is a two time world championship silver medallist in the triathlon for athletes with a disability…named Triathlon Canada’s athlete of the year in the disabled category… started to lose his sight at age 22 due to a degenerative problem… started tandem cycling in 1994… raced his last Ironman triathlon in 1996… cross country skiing in the winter in a bid to land a spot on the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games team…married 26 years to wife Marlene… they have two sons.