Calgary athletes bring home 10 medals from Special Olympics World Winter Games

Karina Zapata · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Six athletes from the Calgary country are settling backmost location aft the Special Olympics World Winter Games successful Turin, Italy earlier this period — wherever they won a combined 10 medals.

That includes 3 gold, 1 metallic and six bronze medals.

The six peculiar Olympians were among 90 athletes representing Team Canada successful alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, fig skating, velocity skating and snowshoeing astatine the Games.

Cross state skier Sarah McCarthy, 41, was 1 of 3 section athletes who came location with a golden medal. She won golden successful the 4x1K relay contention with teammates Cory Beardy, John O'Neill and Marley Gayler.

She besides won bronze successful the 2.5K escaped technique, arsenic good arsenic 4th spot successful the 1K escaped technique.

"It felt truly large to beryllium connected the podium," said McCarthy, who's been cross-country skiing for 23 years.

"It was fun, Italy was nice, and the spot wherever we were skiing was truly amazing."

19-year-old alpine skier Maddie Cyr came location from her archetypal travel overseas donning 3 ribbons — 4th spot successful slalom, sixth spot successful elephantine slalom and sixth spot successful super-G.

"I was crying blessed tears," said Cyr, who noted she dedicated her clip connected the elevation to her ma who is presently successful the hospital.

"I cognize my ma is arrogant of me, adjacent though she was backmost location and I was successful Italy. She was cheering maine connected successful the hospital."

Jodi Flanagan with the Special Olympics Team Canada ngo said the athletes worked highly hard for their achievements — from regular grooming sessions to moving with intelligence show coaches.

She said the medals are great, but their wins spell beyond that.

"So overmuch of it was, however are they feeling? How are they succeeding successful travelling to different country? How are they succeeding being distant from their families and from their accustomed routines for this magnitude of time?" 

The different athletes from the Calgary country who competed successful the World Winter Games are Susan Miko, Elouise Stewart, Jennifer Riddell and Brett Garth.

Altogether, Special Olympics Team Canada brought location 116 medals — 39 gold, 35 metallic and 42 bronze.