Paralympic wake-up call: Canada captures 3 bronze medals to double podium count
CBC
Three medals on the first day, three medals on the second day.
Team Canada kept it consistent and doubled its Beijing Paralympics podium count on Day 2 as skiers Alana Ramsay, Collin Cameron and Alexis Guimond posted bronze medal performances late Saturday, early Sunday.
Ramsay started things off at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in the women's Para alpine super-G standing, successfully defending her PyeongChang 2018 bronze medal in the event.
The 27-year-old Calgary native held off Ebba Aarsjoe of Sweden by just by 0.09 seconds for third place, crossing the finish line in one minute 16.84 seconds.
"I fell out of love with the sport. It took me a while to get back into it," said Ramsay, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, about the diagnosis, after the race.
"I had to take a whole year off and I didn't get back into training until just before the pandemic hit, which made it even tougher to get back into the sport."
WATCH l Alana Ramsay skis to super-G bronze medal:
It didn't take long for another Canadian to claim a second medal of the night.
Shortly after Ramsay's bronze, Cameron finished third in the men's Para cross-country long distance sitting event at the Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Centre to collect Canada's fifth medal in Beijing.
The 27-year-old from Bracebridge, Ont., a three-time bronze medallist in PyeongChang 2018, set a time of 47 minutes 36.6 seconds to add a fourth Paralympic honour to his name.
WATCH l Collin Cameron collects cross-country bronze:
Back at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre, Guimond grabbed Canada's third medal of the night with a bronze in the men's super-G standing.
The native of Gatineau, Que., improved his fourth-place finish in the same event at PyeongChang 2018 by posting a time of one minute 10.02 seconds, just 0.91 seconds shy of gold medallist Liang Jingyi of China.
It's Guimond's second Paralympic medal, having earned bronze four years ago in the men's giant slalom standing race.
