Revised - Whitehorse cross-country skier Dahria Beatty has qualified to race in the Olympics in Beijing.

Beatty, 27, raced to a second-place finish behind Katherine Stewart-Jones (Chelsea, Que.) in the Senior Women’s 10-kilometre Interval Start Classic at Canmore, Alta. last Saturday, finishing .5 seconds behind Stewart-Jones at 34:30.1.

“I didn’t feel like I skied to my potential on Thursday. I refocused on (Saturday) and just knew I had to go out there and not think about the result, but just give it everything I had,” said Beatty.

“It is such a tough course, so you just have to push your body to the limit which is the fun part of ski racing – seeing what you are capable of.

“Katherine and I went for a ski yesterday afternoon and reminded ourselves of what makes ski racing fun and not let the pressure get the better of us. We said we wanted to go out there and finish one-two today and not really worry about what the order was. We went out there, pushed hard, and were able to do that.

“It is a huge relief, and I’m just really happy I was able to ski a race I was proud of,” she added.

Stewart-Jones had already locked up an Olympic spot, which meant Beatty automatically joined her with a second-place finish.

“It was definitely a mixed bag of emotions and racing for me, highlighted by Saturday’s race, which went really well, and secured me a spot on the team for Beijing, which was my main goal for the week of trial races,” said Beatty.

“So I was really happy and relieved to put together a strong performance and push myself to the limit after having a race I was not so happy with on Thursday, to be able to rebound and have a race I was really happy with and that was strong enough to qualify me for the Olympic team. That was great, but definitely not an easy week of racing here.”

Beatty is now qualified to race in all the women’s cross-country events in the Olympics.

She is excited to be heading to the Games for a second time, having competed in 2018 in Pyeongchang, Korea.

“It’s amazing to be preparing for my second Games and definitely feels a little different than the first time around, but equally as exciting, and equally proud to be representing Canada and the Yukon.”

Meanwhile, in what Yukon coach Alain Masson “called a great day for the Yukon skiers,” Sasha Masson and Derek Deuling of the Whitehorse Ski Club finished 1-2 in the U20 men’s World Junior Trials in the Sprints, in Canmore on Thursday.

The results qualified them for the World Junior championships in Lygna, Norway in February.

“(The qualifier) wasn’t my best race, but I was happy I was able to turn it around and kick it up a notch in the heats. I ended that day second behind Sasha (Masson), which was pretty cool to come into the finish line like that,” Deuling said.

“It was just a brutal qualifier,” added Masson.

“We got through the heats and the skis were just really really fast, so that was good, and my body was feeling nice, so everything just kind of lined up, I guess, and then ended up, I think, doing semis with Derek, and finals, so that was really fun, getting the teammate rivalry going ... in the final ... it was awesome to finish the race with Derek right behind me. Really nice to finish the day with the 1-2.”

Masson took first in a time of 2:52.95, followed by Deuling with a time of 3:00.1.

Whitehorse’s Sonjaa Schmidt finished third in the U20 Women’s Sprint last Thursday, barely missing second place, which would have qualified her for a spot in the World Juniors as well, in a time of 3:38:11.

Saturday for the Interval Start Classic races, according to coach Masson, despite the thermometer right at the legal limit of minus-20 C and the facility blanketed by a thick fog, “in the end, it was a strong day of racing for the Yukon skiers entered in the World Junior trials classic races.”

Deuling finished 5th in the U20 Men’s race in a time of 44:44.4. Sasha Masson didn’t race last Saturday.

In the U20 Women’s race, Schmidt finished 7th in 37:35.5, Sophia Giangrande finished 18th in 39:52.0,

Constance Lapointe finished 28th in 41:20.3, and Maude Molgat finished 38th in 43:03.1.

In the Senior Men’s 15 km, Graham Nishikawa was 10th in a time of 45:08.8.

Sunday featured a 30-km for the men and a 15-km for the women in the Interval Start Free races.

Sasha Masson finished third in the U20 men’s race (eighth overall in Open Men) in 1:15:49.9. Deuling was sixth in 1:18:18.1.

In the women’s U20 race, Schmidt was 12th in 45:06.0, Giangrande was 24th in 47:24.2, Lapointe was 28th in 48:37.5, and Molgat finished 42nd in 52:04.4.

Nicholas Giangrande finished first in the U14 Boys 2008 2.5 km race.

In the Senior Men’s 30 km, Graham Nishikawa finished in seventh in a time of 1:17:49.3.

Tuesday in the Sprint Classic, Schmidt captured first in the Women’s U20 final in 3:48:80. Giangrande was ninth in 4:02:20 in the semis. Lapointe finished 12th in 4:25:79 in the semis, and Molgat was 17th in 4:01:07 in the quarter- finals.

Beatty finished 17th in 3:39:33 in the qualification round of the Senior Women’s/U23 race.

In the men’s U20, Deuling finished in fourth in 3:14:18. Romeo Champagne came in 19th in 3:31:08 in the quarter-finals.

Sasha Masson finished 20th in the Senior/U23 Men’s quarter-finals.