Flora Csonka won the youth women's pursuit at the Biathlon Canada Junior/Youth World Championships national team trials in Prince George.
Flora Csonka’s first crack at the shooting range Sunday at Otway Nordic Centre began with a missed target. Ominous sign? Not really. Csonka didn’t let that one wayward shot in the youth women’s pursuit steal her focus. There’s too much at stake in the Biathlon Canada Junior/Youth World Championships national team trials this week in Prince George with the chance to represent Canada in the world finals coming up later this month in Sweden.
Csonka learned early on in her years of training at Canmore Nordic Centre with the Foothills Nordic Ski Club one missed shot in no big deal, not when you can follow that with 19 straight hits, which is what she did. There was no stopping the 17-year-old Calgarian and she cruised to the win in 27:44.9, beating sprint winner Cheyenne Tirschmann of Whitehorse for top spot on the podium by an 89-second margin. Csonka’s aversion to skiing penalty loops moved her to the head of the 28-skier field early in the 10-kilometre race and by the time she completed her first standing shooting bout, Prince George sisters Iona and Isla Cadell were standing side-by-side in the range waging a battle for second place, knowing it was going to be tough to catch the visitor from Alberta. Both Caledonia Nordic Ski Club members left two targets up in Round 3 and they were still in the silver-medal hunt as the lined up together for the second standing. But 16-year-old Isla, the sprint bronze medalist, missed just one target in her final bout and 18-year-old Iona had three misses to deal with, which knocked her out of podium contention. Tirschmann went 4-for-5 in her final bout and was breathing down Isla Cadell’s neck as they headed up the first hill from the range and made the pass soon after, finishing in 27:13.8 to claim silver, 20 seconds ahead of Isla Cadell (27:33.0) the Caledonian hometown favourite
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