Natalie
Wilkie

Natalie Wilkie made a remarkable Games debut at age 17, as the youngest team member at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in South Korea.   She earned a gold, silver, and bronze in women’s standing cross-country events.

She hasn’t slowed down since and is now also a superpower in the women’s standing biathlon races.

In the 2024-25 season, she was second in the women’s standing overall World Cup biathlon rankings. She won four World Cup races and was a double gold medallist at the Para biathlon world championships.

That same season she sparkled as well in cross country. Wilkie reached the podium in her five international races including two silver at the world championships. She was also on the podium at the 2025 World Nordic Skiing Championships where Para events were included for the first time.  She was second in the women’s standing cross country sprint.

At the 2024 Para biathlon world championships in Prince George, B.C., Wilkie tied for first place with Paralympic Games gold medallist Liudmyla Liashenko of Ukraine in the women’s 7.5 kilometre and added bronze in the 12.5 km.

After another strong season in 2022-23 which included three world titles, she received the prestigious King Clancy Award. It is presented annually by the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons in recognition of outstanding personal achievement and important contributions in support of Canadians who live with disability

In 2022, she collected four more medals at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing with two gold, a silver and a bronze.

Building on her 2018 Games breakthrough, Wilkie snagged a couple of silver medals at her first world championships, held on home snow in Prince George in 2019. Wilkie also captured her first three medals on the World Cup circuit in 2019, including a gold to cap off the season in Sapporo, Japan. She chalked up two more bronze-medal results for her resume during the 2020 season.

A high-performance junior cross-country skier in British Columbia, Wilkie was invited to the Para nordic program following a workshop accident at school where she lost four fingers on her left hand. Wilkie posted three fourth-place finishes in her first World Cup in December of 2017 which qualified her for the Paralympic team in PyeongChang.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

In two Paralympic Winter Games (2018 and 2022) has won seven medals (three gold, two silver and two bronze) … Won the Best Paralympic Games Debut by a Female Athlete at the 2018 Canadian Paralympic Sport Awards… She was selected for the BC Nordic team following her bronze-medal finish at cross-country ski nationals in March 2017.

PERSONAL

Lost four fingers on her left hand in a school workshop accident in 2016… Sister Isabelle also a competitive cross country skier… Enjoys painting portraits… In 2023 received the King Clancy Award from the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

2025 World Nordic Skiing Championships – Para cross country sprint – 2nd

2025 Para biathlon World Championships – 12.5 km – 1st

2025 Para biathlon World Championships – 7.5 km – 1st

2025 Para cross country World Championships – 10 km – 2nd

2025 Para cross country World Championships – 20 km – 2nd

2024 Para biathlon World Championships – 7.5 km biathlon – 1st

2024 Para biathlon World Championships – 12.5 km biathlon – 3rd

2023 World Championships – 7.5 km biathlon – 1st

2023 World Championships – 12.5 km biathlon – 1st

2023 World Championships – sprint cross country – 1st

2023 World Champiosnhips – 10 km cross country – 2nd

2023 World Championships – 18 km cross country – 2nd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – 15 km cross country – 1st

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – sprint cross country – 1st

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – 10km cross country – 2nd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – 4X2.5 km mixed relay – 3rd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – 6 km biathlon – 15th

2019 World Championships – cross country long – 2nd

2019 World Championships – cross country mixed relay – 2nd

2019 World Championships – cross country middle distance – 4th

2019 World Championships – cross country sprint – 4th

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – 7.5 km cross country – 1st

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – 4X2.5 km relay cross country – 2nd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – Sprint cross country – 3rd

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – 15 km cross country – 6th