Name: Travis Gaertner
Sport: Cycling
Discipline(s):
Road Cycling
Event(s): Time Trial, Road Race
Classification: H4
DOB: 1/16/1980
Birthplace: Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Hometown: Burien, Wash.
High School: Miles MacDonell Collegiate (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) '98
College: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign '03, Actuarial Sciences
Paralympic Experience
- Two-time Paralympian (2000, 2004)
- Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, gold (wheelchair basketball)
- Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, gold (wheelchair basketball)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2019 – Road – bronze (road race), 7th (time trial)
- Years of Participation: Road – 2018, 2019
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2019 (road race)
Personal:
Previously competed for Canada's wheelchair basketball team at the Paralympic Games Athens 2004 and Paralympic Games Sydney 2000...Married to his wife, Laura...Father to June, Jasper and Ezra.
