Scenes from the Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie

With two more days left in the Arctic Winter Games, Team Yukon’s medal count has leapt from 44 to 70 in one day.

With two more days left in the Arctic Winter Games, Team Yukon’s medal count has leapt from 44 to 70 in one day.

Team Yukon is within reach of Team Northwest Territories’ 73 medals to steal the third place position in the standings.

Team Yukon had huge success in freestyle skiing and snowboarding this week.

Anna Smith scored a gold medal for the Yukon in the junior female freestyle skiing big air event. She earned a total score of 28.9 to lift her over the competition.

Smith earned two silvers as well, the first in the junior female moguls, and the second in the junior female half pipe.

Miguel Rodden also had two silvers in the junior male half pipe and the slope-style events.

Max Melvin-McNutt got a hard fought gold after a fourth and fifth place finish in snowboarding. He earned his gold in the half pipe event with a total score of 24.8. Melvin-McNutt also earned a bronze medal in the snowboard-cross event Thursday.

Also winning a silver ulu in snowboarding was Thomas Mills in the juvenile male snowboard-cross and Alexander Chisholme in the junior male half pipe.

Chisholme also earned a bronze in the junior male snowboard-cross.

Team Yukon’s juvenile snowshoers earned a gold in the four by 400-metre relay Thursday.

Filling out the team were Sara Burke-Forsyth, Galena Roots, Kieran Halliday and Aidan Bradley. All members of the team have individual medals in snowshoeing.

Also medaling was Team Yukon’s junior mix, who earned a bronze.

Erin Oliver-Beebe added to her medal count in biathlon Thursday, following the 7.5-kilometre junior female mass start. She skied to a silver medal in a time of 31:29.6.

The Arctic Winter Games wrap up Saturday with the closing ceremonies. For more information on all the Yukon’s athletes participating, visit http://www.awg2010.org