Raben Dommann’s Comeback From Stroke to Canada’s Pan Pac Team: “It’s Difficult to Put Into Words”

By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Eighteen months ago, Raben Dommann‘s life was flipped upside down.
Having won two medals at the 2023 Pan Am Games and represented Canada at the 2024 World Championships in Doha less than a year earlier, he’d be one of the last people you’d expect to suffer a stroke. But that’s what happened on January 31, 2025.
Twenty-three at the time, Dommann’s stroke was caused by a congenital heart defect. He underwent heart surgery last May