Janet Schuster

Janet Schuster (born ) is a Canadian Paralympic cross-country skier and physiotherapist who has an visual impairment. She began skiing in 1975 and competitively from 1977. Schuster won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 5-kilometre relay 5A-5B along with three other skiers at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Geilo, Norway.

Biography Schuster was born , and she comes from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She was born completely blind. Previously, Schuster solely skied as a hobby and she entered approximately ten events per year. Schuster went on to place second in the girls' 16 to 25-year-old class in the Alberta Blind Championship at Rundle Park in March 1978, and she was entered for the Invitational Meet in Beitostølen, Norway during the middle of the following month.

Schuster was selected by the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing to be on Canada's blind cross-country ski team that they would send to the 1980 Winter Paralympics in Geilo, Norway between February 1 and February 7, 1980. She trained in Banff, Alberta as preparation for the Games. She was named a winner of the Alberta Achievement Award in cross-country skiing for 1980.

In 1981, Schuster won the women's blind five kilometres event of the Alberta Provincial Ski Championships for the Visually Impaired with a time of 57:03. She enrolled at the University of Manitoba's School of Medical Rehabilitation and studied on its physiotherapy program that saw her join sighted classmates on federal funding and help from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in what was reported to be the first fully integrated class of its kind at a North American university. She completed one year at the school and did a stint working at a hospital. Following her graduation, she returned to Edmonton to work as a physiotherapist.