A promising para-athlete with the potential to bring home a medal from the Tokyo Paralympics is 30-year-old Andrea Nelson. Through the heats and now up for the semi-finals, here’s everything about the Paralympian.
Andrea Nelson is a Canadian Paralympian racing para canoe in the Women’s Kayak single 200m event.
Playing for the Balmy Beach Canoe Club back at home, she is also a passionate skydiver since 2009.
On Thursday morning, Nelson came third in the heats, she will next be canoeing on the big race in Sea Forest Waterway in the semi-finals on Friday.
Paralympics Andrea Nelson: Age
Born on April 15, 1991, Canadian Paralympian Andrea Nelson is 30 years old.
She rooted the skydiving passion into her since the age of 18 and has been flying in the sky for a decade now.
The native of Markham, Ontario, has two medals at Pan Am Championships and was fifth in the World Championship, 2019.
With that, Andrea had earned herself a seat in the Canadian team for the Tokyo Paralympics at age 30.
From skydiving to getting into an accident, and getting back up strong all over again, she has tried her best to present her journey in her Instagram account.
Andrea Nelson Disability
Andrea Nelson is categorized under the KL2 class because of her disability of having an immobile lower body.
She had a terrible skydiving accident in 2017 when she landed hard and fast after mistiming her landing. Later, she was diagnosed to have fractured her spine leaving her paraplegic.
That’s how she ended up not being able to move her lower body.
Right out of Walk It Off Spinal Cord Recovery and Wellness Center, Newmarket, after her rehabilitation, Nelson went to attend Paralympic Search event in Toronto.
With that, she decided to give kayaking a try when coach Ryan Blair recognized that she might have the skillset for it.
Further, Andrea always knew she would go back to skydiving which she did only a year after her accident.
Andrea Nelson Wikipedia & Partner Details
With her excelling performance in the Tokyo Paralympics, Andrea Nelson will soon have her biography written on Wikipedia, and apparently, she doesn’t have a partner of life recently.
Born and raised in her supportive family, she feels lucky to have them who took care of her to all the limits after her injury.
To add more about her, Andrea was among the 13 pra-athletes to receive $10,000 from Petro-Canada’s Face program in 2019 after the World Championship.
Recently, she goes to York University and Georgian College for her post-grad program.
Kayaking holds a lot of credit from her for taking her out of the wheelchair and be outside living happier than ever.