Thursday 28 February 2019

First Medal from a Yukon athlete at the Canada Games

Hello everyone, it was an exciting day for the skiers today with the first medal of these Games for a Yukon athletes. Natalie had a solid race and finished 3rd in the women 10 km classic. Amanda also had a solid performance finishing 10th in the race.

In the 15 km mass start classic, Derek had a great race finishing in 9th place.

Overall, today's race was the best team performance for the skiers so far in these games.

The last event will take place Saturday with the mixed gender relay, a new event at the CWG.

Today's results

Complete results from the Mass start Classic races today at CWG: 
Womens 10km:
Natalie Hynes 3rd (BRONZE MEDAL!)
Amanda Thomson 10th
Hannah Deuling 21st 
Sonjaa Schmidt 23rd
Hannah Jirousek 24th
Mens 15km:
Derek Deuling 9th
Marcus Deuling 25th
Sasha Masson 26th
Jamie Phillips-Freedman 32nd
Ben Puskas 33rd