Canada stays unbeaten in wheelchair curling on day two in PyeongChang
It wasn’t the start they wanted, but as the old saying goes, “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”
Canada looked pretty shaky in the opening ends of their third game of the 2018 Paralympic Games but prevailed to beat Sweden 8-4.
Kurt Oatway gets downhill redemption with super-G gold
Alana Ramsay nabs bronze
PYEONGCHANG, KOR (March 11, 2018) — Para alpine skier Kurt Oatway made the ultimate comeback by winning Saturday’s super-G event at the Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Following a disappointing eighth-place result in the men’s downhill event the day before – a race he was favoured to do well in – Oatway refocused and fought his way to the top of the podium on Friday to win gold. Teammate Alana Ramsay did the same in the women’s race, clinching bronze.
Canadian Paralympic snowboard team ready for sport’s second-ever Games appearance
The Canadian Paralympic snowboard team is excited to get their PyeongChang 2018 competition schedule underway, and to have the chance to showcase their sport at the Winter Paralympics for only the second time in history.
Making its debut in Sochi 2014, snowboard-cross will be joined by banked slalom as an additional discipline to the PyeongChang 2018 program, and Canada has sent its largest Paralympic snowboard team to South Korea with seven riders taking part in both medal events.
Collin Cameron Fights for Fifth in Challenging Nordic Sit-Ski Race
Fresh off a historic bronze-medal biathlon performance, Canada’s Collin Cameron was charging for the podium once again – this time coming up just short finishing fifth in a 15-kilometre sit-ski race – at the Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, Korea.
The Paralympic rookie from Sudbury, Ont. battled through warm weather and soft snow conditions at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre to post a time of 43:40.9 seconds in the middle distance cross-country ski event.
Looking ahead at Canadian Paralympic Team action on Day 2
- Canada looks to add to its four-medal total
Day 1: Canada opens with four medals
- Mollie Jepsen and Collin Cameron win bronze medals in Paralympic debuts
- Mac Marcoux and guide Jack Leitch claim first gold in downhill
- Mark Arendz adds a silver medal in biathlon
It was a superb opening day for Canada at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as the team posted four podium finishes in Para alpine and Para nordic skiing, as well as victories in wheelchair curling and Para ice hockey.
MEDALS:
Gold - 1
Silver - 1
Bronze - 2
TOTAL - 4
Canada dominates in opening 17-0 win in Para ice hockey
Canada's Para ice hockey team pened the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games with a 17-0 win over Sweden in Gangneung, South Korea, on Saturday night. With the 17 goals, Canada has now scored 991 since Hockey Canada took over the Para ice hockey program in 2004.
The offense was sparked by Tyler McGregor’s (Forest, Ont.) four goals, including the first of the game which was his 100th career point. Bryan Sholomicki (Winnipeg) added a hat trick while 12 different skaters registered at least one point in the win.
Canadian curlers strong out of the gate in PyeongChang
If you were going to ask Canadian skip Mark Ideson who the favourites in wheelchair curling are at this year’s Paralympic Games, he’d tell you Norway won the world championship, and Russia won the two before that, and that the USA is playing really well lately.
He certainly wouldn’t put Canada on the list, even though they’ve won the last three Paralympic gold medals.
Based on Ideson’s modest prognosis, you’d expect for a Canada-Norway game to be lopsided. And it was, but not in the way his handicapping would suggest.
Mac Marcoux is golden in Paralympic downhill, Mollie Jepsen wins bronze
PYEONGCHANG, KOR (March 10, 2018) — The Para alpine team was the first team to reach the podium at the PyeongChang Paralympic Games during the opening day of competition Friday, bringing home Canada’s first medal of the Games, as well as the first gold medal.
Canadians Mark Arendz and Collin Cameron Snipe Silver and Bronze in Paralympic Biathlon
PYEONGCHANG, Kor.—Mark Arendz celebrated his third career Paralympic biathlon medal, while Collin Cameron fired his name into the history books as the first Canadian male to reach the Paralympic podium in the sit-ski classification on Saturday to kick off the 10-day sporting spectacle in PyeongChang, Korea.