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Dahria Beatty
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Dahria Beatty
Yukon Olympic cross country skier Dahria Beatty and her Canadian teammates continue to compete at the World Nordic Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.
Yukon Olympic cross country skier Dahria Beatty and her Canadian teammates continue to compete at the World Nordic Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.
The competition in Oberstdorf began Feb. 24, but Beatty's first event, the team sprints, was Feb. 28.
In the semifinal Pool B, Beatty and teammate Maya MacIsaac-Jones placed sixth. Their time was 16:19.71. They were 31.83 seconds off the pool's winning pace set by the Swedish team of Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling.
Beatty and MacIsaac-Jones' semifinal time did not put them into the final; they placed 12th overall. The team sprint winners were the Swedes Dahlqvist and Sundling.
Her next competition was March 4 – the women's 4x5-kilometre relay. Beatty was joined by fellow Canadians Katherine Stewart-Jones, Cendrine Browne, and Laura Leclair.
The Canadian quartet had a combined time of 57:25.3, good for ninth place. The Canadians were 3:42.1 off the winning time set by the Norwegians, Tiril Udnes Weng, Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug, and Helene Marie Fossesholm.
Team Russia placed second and the Fins came third.
Saturday was Beatty's final event, the 30-kilometre class mass start. Beatty missed the top 30 by four positions, finishing in a time of 1:34:57.3.
It was a Scandinavian sweep at the top of the podium. Norwegian teammates Johaug and Heidi Weng came first and second while Swedish skier Frida Karlsson place third.
Beatty's Canadian teammates, Stewart-Jones and Browne, both cracked the top 30.
Stewart-Jones was skiing in a large group of athletes, from seventh to 18th position on the first three laps while contending with mild conditions. She dropped a few spots in the back half of the race finishing 23rd in 1:31:02.0.
"I’m happy with my race. I went for it from the start, hoping I had a top-15 in me, but I wasn’t able to hold on,” said Stewart-Jones. "I’m proud of myself for being gutsy even if I didn’t quite get the result I was looking for."
Browne earned her third top-30 finish at the World Nordic Ski Championships. She was steady from the get-go to post her first-ever top-30 result in the classic format, skiing into 27th with a time of 1:32:53.9.
"I’m so happy (with this result),” said Browne. "I had no expectations for today because I didn’t know how my body would react after so many hard races, but I still had some energy after all. It was a good hard fight. It’s by far my best World Championships, having top-30 results in every distance race."
Saturday marked the end of the championships for the Canadian women.
The men ended their competition on Sunday with a 50-kilometre classic mass start.
Antoine Cyr and Russell Kennedy finished one after the other in 27th and 28th.
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