Pier Morten is a two-time B.C. Disabled Athlete of the Year (1988 and 2001) and was the unbeaten 15-time Canadian blind wrestling champion. In 1988, Morten won the blind world wrestling championship, the first European Judo championship and the Canadian powerlifting championship.

He has won wrestling silver in three Paralympics and four bronze medals in judo at four other Paralympics. In 1992 became the world’s first totally blind and deaf athlete to obtain a black belt in judo.

Morten was the first deaf-blind athlete to receive a black belt in judo. He was awarded Sport BC’s Harry Jerome Comeback Award in 1998 and was named the International Blind Sports Federation’s athlete of the year in in 2002. He was inducted into Judo Canada’s Hall of Fame in 2012.