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Denis Orval Lapalme (April 29, 1959 – November 1, 2021) was a Canadian amputee athlete and actor, most noted as a competitor and medalist at the Paralympic Games.[1]

Denis Lapalme

Personal information
Full name	Denis Orval Lapalme
Born	(1959-04-29)29 April 1959 Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Died	1 November 2021(2021-11-01) (aged 62)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Paralympic athletics Paralympic swimming
Disability class	C1
Medal record Paralympic swimming Representing  Canada Paralympic Games 1980 Arnhem 100m backstroke C1-D1 1976 Toronto 100m breaststroke C1 1980 Arnhem 100m breaststroke C1 1976 Toronto 100m freestyle C1 1980 Arnhem 100m freestyle C1-C1 Paralympic athletics Paralympic Games 1980 Arnhem 100m C1 1980 Arnhem Javelin throw C1

Born in Timmins, Ontario, Lapalme lost both legs in a train accident in childhood.[2] As an adult he was based principally in Ottawa, where he has worked as a civil servant.[2]

Athletic career

He competed in swimming at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, winning a bronze medal in the men's 100-metre freestyle and a silver in the men's 100-metre breaststroke.[1]

At the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Netherlands, he competed in both track and swimming, winning gold medals in the men's 100-metre sprint, javelin and 100-meter backstroke, a silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke, and a bronze medal in the 100-metre freestyle.[1]

Lapalme competed on the men's wheelchair basketball team at both the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea[3] and the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain.[4] but the team did not medal at either event.

He also competed nationally and internationally in other track and wheelchair basketball competitions below the Paralympic level,[5] including at the IWAS World Games in 1979.[6]

Although no longer active as a Paralympic competitor after 1992, he remained involved in sports as late as the early 2010s as captain of the Ottawa Sledgehammers, the city's sledge hockey team.[7] Lapalme died on November 1, 2021, in Hull, Quebec at the age of 62.[8]

Acting

Following the end of his Paralympic career he was cast in his first acting role, as Jerome of Sandy Cove in Phil Comeau's 1994 film Jerome's Secret.[9] He subsequently had small parts in the films Bleeders and Two Lovers and a Bear, and an episode of the television series F/X: The Series.

References

External links

• Denis Lapalme at IMDb

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