Having polio at an early age, he was a member of the wheelchair basketball team Vancouver Cable Cars alongside Terry Fox and Rick Hansen.

[1][2] Throughout his career, Reimer excelled at a variety of sports despite his disability, including track-and-field, weightlifting, archery, swimming, volleyball, and table tennis.

He played for 19 years for the wheelchair basketball team Vancouver Cable Cars alongside Rick Hansen and Terry Fox, winning the 1979 National Championships.

Competing in table tennis, swimming, and track events, he won gold at the Men's Discus Throw B with a distance of 27.47 metres.

[12] In 1972, Reimer became the first person with a disability to be named Canada's Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year and he was also inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.