Canadians seek to mount the impulse in the Ski Cross World Championship

The best Cross Canadian Ski athletes are ready to pursue the podium in the Free Ski Ski Championship in St. Moritz, Switzerland this week.

The World Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski championship, which began on Wednesday and ran until Sunday, March 30, includes Ski Cross events. Ski Cross athletes begin their competition on Thursday, with the finals scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The competition will be broadcast live on CBC Sports, and also available on CBC Gem.

The two -time Crystal Globe Reece Howden winner of Cultus Lake, BC is currently in second place in the general classification and will compete along with Toronto veteran Kevin Dury, who is in sixth place in general.

Other members of the Canadian male team include Jared Schmidt, in 14th place in general, and Gavin Rowell, who sits on the 24th.

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Canadian women who have podiums

On the women’s side, Canadians are constantly considering success on the slopes this season, and Abby Mcewen, Courtney Hoffos and India Sherret, hope to maintain the impulse.

In the direction of the World Championship, Sherret is in second place in the general classification of the World Cup, and Hoffos is in the seventh place, followed by Mcewen in Eighth.

At the Craigleith ski club stop, the final stretch of the circuit before the World Championship, two Canadian women reached the podium: Hoffos took second place and Mcewen took third.

Sherret finished fifth in general after taking first place in the small final.

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Canadian Ski Cross Racer occupies the number 1 position in the World Cup circuit and is realizing that his skiing dreams one at the same time. The CBC Sports presenter, Anastasia Buckis, told her about the success, the dynamics of the team and what her expectations are entering the Craigleith World Cup and the World Championship in St. Moritz., Switzerland.

Both men and women will compete in the classification career on Thursday, where the first two in each heat advance to the next round with the remaining final in the big finals for the medals.

“The girls of our team have been so strong for so long, I think there has always been a really incredible Canadian presence in Ski Cross,” Sherret said in an interview with CBC Sports.

The native of Cranbrok, BC, hastened to enumerate the Olympic gold medalists Ashley Mcivor and Kelsey Serwa as inherited athletes, as well as the current teammate Marielle Thompson, who has competed in three Olympic Games.

“Someone is always pressing the envelope to win Olympic medals and world championships and monkeys,” Sherret said.

Last month, Thomson won three consecutive gold medals in the World Cup circuit after overcoming the Podium event in the World Cup in Val Di Fassa, Italy, effectively qualifying for Milano Cortina 2026.

After reaching two of the five The events that had been pre -designed by the Federation, her success on the clues led her to qualify for the nomination for the Canadian Olympic team 2026.

“Seeing those girls, is inspiring,” Dury, a 10 -year -old veterinarian, told CBC Sports. “If I am in the big finals, the big girls are always before the boys and I always ask the coaches, ‘Who won?'”

After an accident at the Georgia stop of the World Cup circuit led Thomson to undergo surgery, he was forced to sit during the rest of the season, unable to defend his general title of the World Cup last season.

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Medal covers out of 2024

To limit 2024, Dury arrived at the World Cup circuit podium for the first time since 2022 in Val Thorens, France, in December 2024, after winning the bronze.

Last weekend in Craigleith Dury won another bronze medal to finish the World Cup circuit.

He joined Howden on the podium, who won his third gold medal of the season after securing first place on Canadian soil.

“Men get women’s confidence, women get confidence from men. It is a special sport in that regard,” said Kris Mahler, who is currently 15 in general, CBC Sports. “It’s amazing to see what they are doing right now.”

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Mahler competed this season after recovering from a broken neck after an accident at the FIS Ski Cruz World Cup in Arosa, Switzerland, in December 2023.

The Native of Canmore, Alta., He was left out most of the 2024 season after cutting his C7 vertebrae, at the base of the neck, which led him to use an orthopedic device for two consecutive months as part of the recovery process.

But the mental challenge of suffering as serious injury as this was the most challenging part of recovery for Mahler.

“It was a great learning.” Mahler said. “It has been an interesting season that came out of the injury from the point of view of the results, but I have been working with my psychologist and we are really separating how we address this career (Craigleith) and some of the greats that occur.”

Mahler was not finally selected to compete in the World Championship.

Dury, on the other hand, broke his warm in 2020 and recently underwent shoulder surgery after an accident in Italy.

Despite these setbacks, Dury decided to continue his career in sport and is preparing to compete on Thursday.