Canada captures 3 bronze medals to double podium count
Three medals on the primary day, three medals on the second day.
Staff Canada saved it constant and doubled its Beijing Paralympics podium depend on Day 2 as skiers Alana Ramsay, Collin Cameron and Alexis Guimond posted bronze medal performances late Saturday, early Sunday.
Ramsay began issues off on the Yanqing Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Centre within the girls’s Para alpine super-G standing, efficiently defending her PyeongChang 2018 bronze medal within the occasion.
The 27-year-old Calgary native held off Ebba Aarsjoe of Sweden by simply by 0.09 seconds for third place, crossing the end line in a single minute 16.84 seconds.
Ramsay needed to overcome a post-traumatic stress dysfunction prognosis after a crash on the 2019 World Para Alpine Snowboarding Championships to get her arms on a 3rd profession Paralympic medal.
“I fell out of affection with the game. It took me some time to get again into it,” stated Ramsay, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, concerning the prognosis, after the race.
“I needed to take an entire 12 months off and I did not get again into coaching till simply earlier than the pandemic hit, which made it even harder to get again into the game.”
WATCH l Alana Ramsay skis to super-G bronze medal:
It did not take lengthy for one more Canadian to say a second medal of the evening.
Shortly after Ramsay’s bronze, Cameron completed third within the males’s Para cross-country lengthy distance sitting occasion on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Biathlon Centre to gather Canada’s fifth medal in Beijing.
The 27-year-old from Bracebridge, Ont., a three-time bronze medallist in PyeongChang 2018, set a time of 47 minutes 36.6 seconds so as to add a fourth Paralympic honour to his title.
WATCH l Collin Cameron collects cross-country bronze:
Again on the Yanqing Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Centre, Guimond grabbed Canada’s third medal of the evening with a bronze within the males’s super-G standing.
The native of Gatineau, Que., improved his fourth-place end in the identical occasion at PyeongChang 2018 by posting a time of 1 minute 10.02 seconds, simply 0.91 seconds shy of gold medallist Liang Jingyi of China.
It is Guimond’s second Paralympic medal, having earned bronze 4 years in the past within the males’s large slalom standing race.
Learn extra about Canada’s three bronze medals on Day 2.
WATCH l Alexis Guimond earns males’s super-G bronze medal:
Here is extra of what you missed on Saturday:
Canada’s wheelchair curling workforce is 3 for 3
Looks as if the Canadian wheelchair curling workforce resides by the ‘go large or go house’ motto in Beijing.
Throughout Canada’s 10-3 win over Latvia to enhance to 3-0 in round-robin play, they had been confronted with two choices after an official moved a rock earlier than it could possibly be correctly measured to verify if Canada was up 1-0 or 2-0 on the finish of the primary finish.
The Canadian squad, led by opening ceremony co-flag-bearer Ina Forrest, might both take one level and transfer on or replay the primary finish (in different phrases, restart the sport) and see the place that might take them when it comes to scoring.
After minutes of debate, Canada selected the second possibility. And it payed off, with the Canadians taking a 4-0 lead within the replayed first finish.
“Uncommon expertise within the begin with our rock, so we simply determined to replay the top, and it was good,” stated Canada’s fourth Jon Thurston. “As a workforce, we refocused very effectively and got here out and had an excellent first and second finish.
“It was the primary time that occurred to me.”
Learn extra about Canada’s third straight wheelchair curling win.
WATCH l Canada stays good in wheelchair curling with victory over Latvia:
