Canadians Jepsen, Hudak, Arendz earn medals to return to podium at Beijing Paralympics
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Canada's Mollie Jepsen, Mark Arendz and Brittany Hudak earned more medals at the Beijing Paralympics on Friday.
Jepsen, a 22-year-old West Vancouver, B.C., native, posted a combined time of two minutes 0.95 seconds to take silver in the women's standing giant slalom for her second podium appearance.
Jepsen was 5.83 seconds slower than Zhang Mengqiu of China, who struck gold. Andrea Rothfuss of Germany claimed bronze with a time of 2:01.91.
Medal hopeful Ebba Aarsjoe of Sweden, who had posted the second-best time in the first run, crashed out in her second go.
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Michaela Gosselin of Collingwood, Ont., finished sixth with a combined time of 2:06.17 Fellow Canadian Alana Ramsey crashed out in her second run.
Last Friday, Jepsen captured Canada's first Beijing Paralympics gold medal by winning the women's standing downhill race.
Toronto native Katie Combaluzier, 28, finished eighth in the women's sitting giant slalom event with a combined time of two minutes 28.27 seconds.
Japan's Momoka Muraoka captured the gold medal, finishing 7.28 seconds ahead of silver medallist Liu Sitong of China. Zhang Wenjing, also from China, earned bronze.
In biathlon, Canadian Mark Arendz also skied to a silver medal.
The 32-year-old from Hartsville, P.E.I., secured second place in the men's standing 12.5-kilometre event with a time of 40:13, putting him well behind gold medallist Benjamin Daviet of France.
Ukraine's Grygorii Vovchynskyi rounded out the podium with bronze.
It's Arendz's third podium appearance at the Beijing Paralympics, after he won gold in the standing 10-kilometre event and bronze in the 6km.
He's now up to 11 career Paralympics, including six at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in 2018.
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