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Paralympic Recap Day 9
Babey, Canada take silver in Para hockey It’s another Paralympic silver medal for Saskatoon head coach Ken Babey and the Canadian Para hockey team after they fell to the United States 5-0 in the gold medal game on Day 9 of the Winter Games in Beijing. A teeing penalty by the United States eight minutes…
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Paralympic Recap Day 8
Hudak finishes seventh In her last individual event of the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak finished seventh in the women’s standing 10-kilometre Para Nordic cross country race on Day 8 of the Games. Hudak completed the distance in a time of 43 minutes and 16.3 seconds, just under two minutes behind Ukraine’s Oleksandra…
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Paralympic Recap Day 7
Hudak wins second bronze Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak won her second of two medals at the Beijing Winter Games in the women’s standing 12.5-kilometre biathlon race. Hudak posted a time of 49 minutes and one second to capture the bronze medal, behind Liudmyla Liashenko of Ukraine who took gold and Zhiqing Zhao of China who…
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Paralympic Recap Day 6
Men’s Para hockey to face South Korea in semifinals Team Canada is scheduled to face South Korea for the second time in four days, as the two teams meet in the semifinals. In their first matchup, the Canadians, led by head coach Ken Babey of Saskatoon, blanked South Korea 6-0. They’ll look to dominate again when…
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Paralympic Recap Day 4
Hudak races to sixth-place finish Just one day after her bronze medal finish in the women’s standing 15-kilometre cross country event, Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak finished sixth in the women’s standing biathlon 10-kilometre course. She completed the race with a time of 37 minutes and 43.1 seconds, one minute behind Ukraine’s Iryna Bui who…
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Paralympic Recap Day 1
Hudak finishes eighth in first Games competition Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak opened the Beijing Winter Paralympics with an eighth-place finish in the women’s sprint standing biathlon on Day 1 of competition. Hudak completed the 6-kilometre distance in a time of 20 minutes and 32.4 seconds, just over 49 seconds behind China’s Guo Yijie who took…
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Beijing Paralympic Contingent
A small but decorated group of Saskatchewan individuals will represent the province at the Paralympic Games, running March 4-13 in Beijing. The Saskatchewan Olympic contingent for the Beijing Games features two athletes in three-time Paralympic Para Nordic skier Brittany Hudak, and decorated World Cup newcomer in Para snowboarding Lisa DeJong, as well as multi-Paralympic coaches…