Natalie
Wilkie

Para nordic skier Natalie Wilkie (two gold, one silver, one bronze) captured the most medals for Canada at the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games with four. The competitor in the women’s standing category now has 11 Paralympic medals through three Games.

In Milano Cortina, Wilkie won both her gold medals in biathlon with gold in the sprint pursuit and individual races as well as silver in the sprint. In cross country skiing she added a bronze in the sprint classic.  It was her first career Paralympic Games medals in biathlon. Her previous seven medals were in cross country events.

Also in the 2025-26 season, Wilkie collected six victories on the Para biathlon World Cup circuit and earned the Crystal Globe as the overall champion in the women’ standing category for the first time in her career.  Also in 2025-26, on the Para cross country circuit, she’s collected five silver medals and a bronze at the first two World Cup stops.

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 with Paralympic Games gold medallist Liudmyla Liashenko of Ukraine in the women’s 7.5 kilometre and added bronze in the 12.5 km.

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

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.

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.

Wilkie was already a high-performance junior cross-country skier in British Columbia before her accident.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

In three Paralympic Winter Games (2018, 2022, 2026) she has won 11 medals (five gold, three silver and three 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

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para biathlon sprint pursuit – 1st

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para biathlon 12.5 km individual – 1st

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para biathlon 7.5 km sprint – 2nd

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para cross cross country sprint classic – 3rd

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para cross country mixed 2.5 km relay -5th

2026 Paralympic Winter Games – Para cross country 20 km – 6th

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 Championships – 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