Prince George, British Columbia, will host the Biathlon Canada Youth/Junior World Championship trials from January 3rd to 7th at the Otway Nordic Centre. This event will determine the Canadian youth and junior teams for the IBU World Championships in Oestersund, Sweden.
Prince George is getting set to host its biggest biathlon event of the season in early January. Otway Nordic Centre will be the site of the Biathlon Canada Youth/Junior World Championship trials, Jan. 3-7, hosted by the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club. Five current Caledonia club members and four alumni members will represent Prince George in three days of competition which will determine Canada ’s youth and junior teams for the IBU world youth/junior championships in Oestersund, Sweden, Feb.
26-March 5. Athletes will gather at Otway for a training day Jan. 3, then compete the following day in sprint races, followed by the pursuits on Jan. 5. They’ll get one more training day before the mass start races on Jan. 7. Athletes qualify in the youth age category provided they turn 17, 18 or 19 during the season from November to October. Junior racers must turn either 20, 21 or 22 during the season. Athletes from across Canada will converge on the Otway course for the trials, competing for eight junior spots (four male, four female) and eight youth spots (four male, four female) on the team Canada will be sending to Oestersund. Among the local biathletes coming to race on their home track are Liam Simons and Aliah Turner, who will both represent Canada at the World University Games in Torino, Italy, Jan. 13-23. Simons, a UBC-Okanagan student who trains with the Sovereign Lake Nordic Club in Vernon, finished 18th overall at the Biathlon Canada national team trails at Canmore, Alta., in November. Turner, a University of Calgary student, trains at the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre in Canmore. She placed 17th overall at the trials. Simons is entered in the junior men’s category for the world qualifier while Turner will compete in the youth women‘s class. Also returning to their hometown to race is national development team member Moira Green (junior women), who captured the defending Canadian junior women’s aggregate championship, and Iona Cadell (youth women
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