Salmon Arm's Natalie Wilkie finishes in dead-heat, shares gold with Ukrainian biathlete on opening day at Otway
After going 3-for-3 at the Para Biathlon World Cup stage in Martell, Italy, Canadian Mark Arendz is locked and loaded as he takes aim at the world championships.
That came right after a thrilling women’s standing race in which Liudmyla Liashenko pf Ukraine and B.C.’s own Natalie Wilkie of Salmon Arm finished in a dead heat, each being awarded gold after posting identical finishing times . “I had surgery on both heels after the Games, which meant taking four months off and last year was just kind of let’s see what happens and it looked really good afterwards, watching it. This year it’s been back to a normal schedule and I was curious to see how it would end up. I’m really excited it just kept going, if nor progressed even further, coming into this event and Finals as well.”
Arendz knows the competition will be tough to beat this week in Prince George with the likes of Maier, Romaniuk, Benjamin Daviet of France and Grygorii Vovchynskyi of Ukraine gunning for world titles at Otway. After a dry winter, recent snowfalls on top of a thick layer of artificial snow made trail conditions at Otway just about perfect, but the -16 C wind chill was much less than ideal for everybody on opening day.
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