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Paralympic Games: By the Numbers

2016 Paralympic Games –

The summer is over and Canadian swimmers are already looking ahead to the 2017 season.

But before completely turning the page on 2016, here is one final look at some numbers that stood out at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games:

26 – Swimmers who competed for Canada at the 2016 Paralympics

45 – Finals swims for Canada at the Paralympic Games: 23 from females and 22 from males

8 – Medals for Canada at the 2016 Paralympic Games: 4 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze

29 – Canadian records broken by Canadian swimmers

9 – Americas records broken by Canadian swimmers

5 – Paralympic records broken by Canadian swimmers

2 – World records broken by Canadian swimmers

2 – World records broken by Aurelie Rivard

8182.7 – Distance in kilometres from Rivard’s hometown of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., to Rio

2 – Number of flags carried by swimmers at Olympic/Paralympic Closing Ceremonies (Penny Oleksiak, Rivard)

1 – Paralympic gold medal for Katarina Roxon

3 – Number of Paralympics Roxon competed in

0 – Number of medals she had before Rio 2016

10 – Canada’s place in the swimming medal ranking

27 – Difference in age between Danielle Dorris (13), Canada’s youngest ever Paralympian, and Tammy Cunnington (40), the oldest member of the Paralympic swim team.

12,142,058 – Difference in metropolitan area population between Dorris’s hometown of Moncton, N.B., and Rio

20 – Total number of Paralympic medals for Benoit Huot

5 – Number of Paralympic Games Huot competed in

2 – Huot’s all-time ranking among Canadian Paralympic swimming medallists (Tim McIsaac – 28; Michael Edgson – 20)

22.2 – The average age of Canada’s Paralympic swimming medallists (including 32 year old Huot)

19.75 – The average age without Huot