Marni Abbott-Peter

Marni Abbott-Peter (born October 11, 1965) is a Canadian retired wheelchair basketball player and current head coach of the Canadian senior women's wheelchair basketball team. As a member of Team Canada, she won three gold medals and one bronze during the Paralympic Games as well as four World Championship titles. She was inducted into the Canadian Paralympic Committee Hall of Fame in 2015. She is married to fellow Paralympic athlete Richard Peter.

Early life Born in Nelson, British Columbia, Abbott-Peter grew up in the Kootenays region of British Columbia, beside skier Nancy Greene Raine who inspired her to begin skiing. Although Raine would later move away, both Abbott-Peter and her brother partook in skiing lessons.

Career Abbott-Peter sustained a spinal cord injury as a teenager while she was downhill skiing. As she was recovering, Abbott-Peter met Paralympic athlete Rick Hansen who introduced her to wheelchair sports. From 1992 to 2004, Abbott-Peter won three gold medals at the Paralympic Games and three consecutive World Championship titles in wheelchair basketball with Team Canada. In 2003, Abbott-Peter was named Female Athlete of the Year by the BC Wheelchair Sports Association. After briefly retiring in 2004, where she served on the BC Games Society Board and coached, Abbott-Peter won a bronze medal with Team Canada at the 2010 World Championship.

In 2012, Abbott-Peter was selected to coach at the Women's' Wheelchair Basketball tournament at the 2012 London Games. The following year, she was inducted into the Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame. In 2015, Abbott-Peter was inducted into the Canadian Paralympic Committee Hall of Fame and later into the Basketball BC Hall of Fame. Outside of sports, Abbott-Peter was named into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame in 2016.

In 2023, Abbott-Peter was named the head coach of the Canadian senior women's wheelchair basketball team.

Personal life Abbott-Peter became engaged to fellow Paralympic athlete Richard Peter in 2005, and the two later married.

Paralympic Games results Results Games Bronze2004 Summer Paralympics Gold 2000 Summer Paralympics Gold 1996 Summer Paralympics Gold 1992 Summer Paralympics