January 22, 2020
Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC: From January 30 to February 2, 2020, Mont-Sainte-Anne will host the Haywood NorAm trials, a race series that will determine which athletes will represent Canada at the upcoming World Junior/U23 Championships in Oberwiesenthal, Germany (February 29 to March 7). The events will also serve to select the athletes who will take part in the season-finale North American stops of the World Cup circuit, in Quebec City, Minneapolis, and Canmore. Read...
January 20, 2020
Quebec City, Monday, January 20, 2020 – With less than two months to go before the Quebec City COOP FIS Cross-Country World Cup brings the world’s elite cross-country skiers to the Plains of Abraham March 13–15, now’s the time to sign experienced young cross-country skiers up for the COOP Mini World Cup. New for 2020, this fun event is a great way for young skiers between 5 and 12 years of age to put their skills to the test tackling a range of obstacles on the...
January 18, 2020
ALTENBERG, Ger.— Mark Arendz put a silver lining around a week that saw Canada’s Para-Nordic squad rack up seven medals at the World Cup in Altenberg, Germany. Determined to bounce back after a disappointing effort in Friday’s race, the 29-year-old Arendz had a near perfect day on the skis and in the range to post a second-place time of 10:45.4 in the men’s standing classification. “It was much better today, and I finally felt like myself skiing again,” said...
January 17, 2020
ALTENBERG, Ger.— Canada’s Collin Cameron added to his medal haul in Germany, winning his third straight medal, at the Para-Nordic World Cup on Friday – this time in the biathlon sit-skiing sprint distance race. Feeding off one bronze and one silver finish in the cross-country ski events earlier this week, the former sledge hockey player from Sudbury, Ont. completed the medal hat trick after a stopping the clock at 14:53.2 in the five-kilometre race. “Today was...
January 15, 2020
ALTENBERG, Ger.— Brian McKeever and Graham Nishikawa bounced back to win the gold medal, while Collin Cameron battled to bronze under marginal conditions in a short distance skate-ski race at the Para-Nordic World Cup in Altenberg, Germany. A winner of 17 Paralympic medals, the 40-year-old McKeever was looking to rebound after a disappointing sprint race earlier in the week. He did exactly that on Wednesday, dusting the field in a six-kilometre race that saw the...
