Luke Hulshof, a biathlete from Canmore, Alberta, won the junior men's pursuit at the Biathlon Canada world championship trials. He dominated the competition with his exceptional shooting speed, finishing both standing shooting bouts in under 60 seconds.
One of the spotters behind the Otway Nordic Centre shooting range who knows Canmore biathlete Luke Hulshof’s reputation for knocking down biathlon targets in the blink on an eye, saw what was happening as the Alberta Biathlon team member pulled into the range holding a slim lead second ahead of two other challengers as they all got set to start their first standing bout. “Watch out for Luke, here he goes,” said the man. Hulshof proved that prediction was right on the money.
He didn’t hang around long for either of his standing shooting bouts in Sunday’s junior men’s pursuit at the Biathlon Canada world championship trials. It took Hulshof all of 52 seconds to nail all five targets in his first bout and get back on the course and his final shooting was done in just 54 seconds. To the surprise of nobody watching the smooth operator pulling the trigger, ‘Machine Gun’ Hulshof breezed to the finish all alone in front in that last lap, winning in 29:21.7. “I started off poorly with four misses in the first two bouts and I knew I had to hit them to come back and luckily I did,” said the 18-year-old Hulshof. “The club I grew up with (Foothills Nordic), we do a lot of fast shooting and a lot of the boys I’m racing are from that club. We always like to race each other and that helped a lot.” Justin Konoff of Calgary’s Foothills Nordic Ski Club won silver (30:48.0) and Malcolm McCulloch of Highland Trailblazers (Duntroon, Ont.) locked up the bronze (30:48.0). Konoff, the silver medalist in Saturday’s sprint, left the start gate three seconds behind Hulshof, the sprint winner. Ethan Hawes, of the host Caledonia Nordic Ski Club, who finished 24th in Saturday’s sprint, gained 11 positions in the youth pursuit and ended up 13th (34:24.8) in the field of 27. In other Caledonia results, Nathanael Dean was 15th (35:08.2), Oscar Nelson was 23rd (38:54.9) and David Hillhouse ended up 26th (45:34.2
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