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EARLY LEADER – Yukon skier Dahria Beatty smiles after winning gold in the senior women’s NorAm sprint in Canmore, Alta., on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of MARTINE ZILLIGEN
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EARLY LEADER – Yukon skier Dahria Beatty smiles after winning gold in the senior women’s NorAm sprint in Canmore, Alta., on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of MARTINE ZILLIGEN
Dahria Beatty and Knute Johnsgaard showed off their fine form at the Haywood NorAm season opener last weekend.
Dahria Beatty and Knute Johnsgaard showed off their fine form at the Haywood NorAm season opener last weekend.
Junior skier Natalie Hynes showed she’s not far behind.
National development team members Beatty and Johnsgaard scored two medals each in Canmore, Alta.
Beatty’s latest came in the individual classic sprint race, held Tuesday, where she took home gold with a time of 4:30.83.
Other Yukon sprint medallists included junior male Caelan McLean, who took silver, and Hynes, who earned gold in the Youth Olympic girls division.
On Sunday, Beatty earned her first NorAm medal of the season, striking gold in the 10-km mass start race.
Johnsgaard claimed silver in the men’s 16.2-km race, with Graham Nishikawa turning in a sixth-place finish.
Hynes also medalled, finishing second in the six-km course, while teammate Hannah Deuling was just off the podium in fourth. Mira Mason finished ninth overall.
On Saturday, Johnsgaard celebrated his 23rd birthday with a silver medal in the NorAm 10-km classic interval start race.
Hynes also turned in a podium finish on the day, nabbing third in the five-km classic race.
Several other Yukoners logged top-10 performances Saturday, including Colin Abbott, Annah Hanthorn, Simon Cash and Deuling.
This weekend’s NorAm races will be held in Sovereign Lake, B.C.
Meanwhile, in Lillehammer, Norway, Whitehorse’s Emily Nishikawa placed 52nd in the women’s 15-km skiathlon with a time of 49:29.6 on Saturday.
The World Cup now travels to Davos, Switzerland.
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