Paralympic debut in the books, Humboldt survivor Jacob Wassermann looks to LA 2028

The Paralympic learning curve was steep, but worth it for Jacob Wassermann.

Less than two years after taking up the sport of para rowing and six years after he survived a bus crash that killed members of his Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, Wassermann raced the men's singles B final Sunday in Paris.

The 24-year-old from Humboldt, Sask., was the youngest competitor in the field. In his third race in three days, Wassermann finished 10th overall in the 2,000-metre distance at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium east of Paris.

"I'm still learning so much. I'm so new in this sport," Wassermann said. "Some things go wrong here and there. Start wasn't the cleanest. I had to recover from that. There's still things I'm learning how to do.

"It was a good experience to have that. Didn't go the best. You go on to race another day."