Canada's Kalle Eriksson, guide Sierra Smith earn super-G bronze for 2nd medal of Milano-Cortina Paralympics

Canadian Para alpine skier Kalle Eriksson and guide Sierra Smith continued their impressive Paralympic debut on Monday by racing to bronze in the men's visually impaired super-G for their second medal.

They finished the course in one minute 13.29 seconds at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Austria's Johannes Aigner and Nico Haberl captured their second gold of Milano Cortina in 1:11.99, just 0.16 seconds ahead of Italian duo Giacomo Bertagnolli and Andrea Ravelli.

"I'm not super pumped on my technical side of skiing," Eriksson said after the race. "It was pretty messy out there on my end. The gates stacked up really quickly, but we went out there and committed to it, and we came out across the line with a better result than I thought."

Eriksson, of Kimberley, B.C., and Ottawa's Smith, who are also partners, won Canada's first medal of the Games with silver in the downhill event on Saturday.

"We came into these Games with hopes and dreams. To be actually on the podium in our first two races, that's what dreams are made of," Smith said.

Canada now has seven medals through three days of competition at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics — one gold, three silver, three bronze.

Eriksson and Smith have only been competing together since 2022. They won silver medals in the slalom and giant slalom at last year's world championships and have earned 22 career World Cup medals across three seasons.

The Canadians communicate through a two-way headset.

Day 3 did not go well for Canadian alpine medal hopefuls Alexis Guimond and Kurt Oatway, who both posted a DNF (did not finish) in their super-G events.

Guimond, from Gatineau, Que., skied off the course halfway through his run in the men's standing race. He was looking to bounce back after a DNF in Saturday's downhill.

The 26-year-old is a two-time Paralympic medallist, having earned bronze in the giant slalom at the last two Games.

Oatway, a sit-skier from Calgary, hit a gate with his outrigger ski, forcing him to ski off the course.

The 42-year-old won the event at the 2018 Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He added his second career Paralympic medal on Saturday with downhill bronze.