Background

National Ski Team Background:

With seven medals over two Paralympic Winter Games, Natalie Wilkie is currently one of the world’s most successful athletes in Para nordic skiing.

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.

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

Personal:

Natalie lost four fingers on her left hand in a school woodshop accident in 2016. Her sisters, Madeleine and Isabelle, also compete in cross country skiing.