Canada is off to a strong start at the Paralympics
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With Day 3 of the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games winding down, Canada is already up to seven medals — one gold, three silver and three bronze.
Let's get you up to speed on what happened over the weekend and today, and look ahead to the top Canadians to watch tomorrow.
Nordic skier Natalie Wilkie captured Canada's first (and still only) gold medal of the Games on Sunday, winning the women's standing 12.5-kilometre biathlon event. Wilkie also earned a silver in the 7.5 km biathlon sprint on Saturday and now owns nine Paralympic medals at the age of 25.
Mark Arendz won his 13th career Paralympic medal, taking silver in the men's standing 12.5km biathlon. The 36-year-old bounced back from a fifth-place finish in the sprint race on Saturday.
Alpine skier Kalle Ericsson and his guide Sierra Smith took silver in the men's vision-impaired downhill on Saturday for Canada's first medal of the Games. Today, they added a bronze in the super-G.
Defending men's snowboard cross SB-LL1 champion Tyler Turner crashed during his four-man final on Sunday but was awarded the bronze after the judges ruled that the third-place finisher caused the collision.
42-year-old alpine skier Kurt Oatway took bronze in the men's sitting downhill on Saturday for his second career Paralympic medal. The 2018 super-G champion missed the 2022 Games after a serious crash at the world championships that year.
Defending women's standing downhill champion Mollie Jepsen finished fourth, just missing her seventh career Olympic medal. She was later ruled out for the remainder of the Games due to a knee injury.
Canada's Para hockey team opened with an 8-0 rout of Slovakia on Saturday and routed Japan 14-0 today. The Canadians lost the last two Paralympic gold-medal games to the United States.
Canada's mixed wheelchair curling team defeated Italy, Great Britain and Norway over the weekend before routing Latvia 11-1 this morning to improve their record to 4-0. Against Norway, Canada's Jon Thurston made one of the best shots you'll ever see.
Wilkie and Arendz will put down their biathlon rifles as cross-country skiing competition begins with the sprint events in all categories. At the 2022 Beijing Paralympics, Wilkie won the 1.5 km women's standing race by overtaking Norway's Vilde Nilsen just before the finish line, and they're expected to battle for the gold again.
Canada's Brittany Hudak could also contend after finishing fourth last time. The final goes at 8:38 a.m. ET, followed immediately by the men's standing final. Arendz tied for the bronze in 2018 before skipping the sprint in Beijing.
Six-time Paralympic medallist Collin Cameron will try to advance to the men's sitting cross-country sprint final at 8:29 a.m. ET. The 27-year-old took bronze in this event in 2022 but finished 11th and seventh in his two biathlon races over the weekend.
The Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics officially opened Friday amid the tensions of war in the Middle East, and with some countries boycotting the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.
Iran will not participate in the Milan Cortina Paralympics because its only athlete set to compete can't safely travel to Italy amid the intensifying Middle East conflict, the International Paralympic Committee said Friday.
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