Canada's Reece Howden wins ski cross World Cup gold in Sweden

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· Posted: Mar 29, 2025 7:43 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Canadians came distant with a brace of medals in the penultimate finals of the World Cup play connected Saturday successful Idre Fjäll, Sweden.

Reece Howden, of Cultus Lake, B.C., won the men's large last to seizure the golden medal.

Italy's Simone Deromedis and Sweden's Erik Mobaerg won the metallic and bronze medals, respectively.

The golden was the sixth of the play for Howden, who is the wide play points person with 938 points. Deromedis (905) is successful 2nd place, trailing by conscionable 33 points.

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On the women's side, Courtney Hoffos, of Windermere, B.C., finished down victor Daniela Maier of Germany to instrumentality the metallic medal in Idre Fjäll.

Switzerland's Fanny Smith rounded retired the podium successful bronze-medal presumption and clinched the Crystal Globe for the overall play title. Smith has 976 points with conscionable 1 last contention remaining.

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The second-placed skis racer, Canada's India Sherret, has 869 points but is besides done for the play acknowledgment to a fractured sternum she suffered while racing astatine the satellite championships successful Switzerland past week.

Maier has 865 points, but could not drawback Smith arsenic the maximum magnitude of points earned successful 1 contention is 100 points.