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Canada got off to a noteworthy start at the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympic Games on Saturday, earning three medals — two silver and a bronze — for the country.
B.C.’s Kalle Eriksson and his guide Sierra Smith took a silver medal in the men’s downhill vision impaired event, where the skiers communicate through a two-way headset with the guide sending cues to keep their partner on course. It was the first Paralympic Games for the pair.
Johannes Aigner of Austria took the gold medal and Giacoma Bertagnolli the bronze in the event.
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Natalie Wilkie, also from B.C., made it two silver medals for Canada after coming second in the women’s sprint standing biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and target shooting.
Athletes race around a looped course and between laps must hit five targets at a shooting range. For each missed shot, competitors either get a time penalty or must ski a penalty loop, depending on the event. There is no standing shooting in para biathlon, all athletes shoot from a prone position.
Ukraine’s Oleksandra Kononova took the gold medal, while another Ukrainian altlete, Liudmyla Liashenko, was awarded bronze.
Going into the Games in Italy, Wilkie had seven medals over two Paralympic Winter Games, making her one of the world’s most successful athletes in Para nordic skiing.
Kurt Oatway from Alberta was awarded a bronze medal in men’s downhill sitting ski competition behind Jesper Pedersen of Norway who took gold and Niels de Langen of the Netherlands who was awarded the silver medal.
Oatway studied geology at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, graduating in 2010. The Games marked a return for Oatway who missed the 2022 Beijing Games, after crashing at the world championships and suffering a broken collarbone, two torn ligaments, three broken ribs in five places, and a punctured lung.
In the women’s standing downhill, Mollie Jepsen of West Vancouver — a six-time Paralympic Games medallist and the defending champion— placed fourth while battling a leg injury.
Canada has sent 50 athletes to the Games, which run March 6-15. The Canadians have eight athletes competing in Para alpine skiing, 17 will take to the ice in Para ice hockey, 15 will compete in Para nordic skiing (which includes Para biathlon and Para cross-country skiing), five athletes in Para snowboard, and five in wheelchair curling.
The Games are being broadcast in Canada in CBC Gen.
— with file from Canadian Paralympic Committee
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