Canadian Para alpine skier Kalle Ericsson, guide Sierra Smith win giant slalom at World Cup finals

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· Posted: Mar 22, 2025 3:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Canadian Para alpine skier Kalle Ericsson and his usher Sierra Smith captured golden connected Saturday in the men's vision-impaired elephantine slalom contention astatine the World Cup finals successful Veysonnaz, Switzerland.

Ericsson, from Kimberley, B.C., and Sierra Smith of Ottawa claimed Canada's archetypal win in Veysonnaz on the 3rd time of racing, posting a clip of one infinitesimal 52.73 seconds successful the last elephantine slalom of the season.

Italy's Giacomo Bertagnolli and Andrea Ravelli finished 0.45 seconds down the Canadians for silver, with Austria's Johannes Aigner and Nico Haberl taking bronze successful 1:55.55.

Ericsson and Smith, competing successful their archetypal play together, claimed their eighth podium decorativeness of the campaign. They took bronze successful Friday's elephantine slalom.

Canada's Mollie Jepsen and Alexis Guimond also reached the podium for the 2nd consecutive day, earning bronze medals in the women's and men's lasting elephantine slalom events.

The 25-year-old Jepsen, from West Vancouver, B.C., clocked 2:03.41 to borderline France's Aurelie Richard for 3rd place by just 0.2 seconds

Sweden's Ebba Aarsjoe (1:55.28) won her 3rd elephantine slalom contention successful arsenic galore days in Veysonnaz, portion reigning Paralympic champion Zhang Mengqiu of China was 2nd with a clip of 1:59.13.

Collingwood, Ont., autochthonal Michaela Gosselin (2:06.23) besides cracked the apical 10 with a seventh-place finish.

Jepsen, a six-time Paralympic medallist, was competing successful conscionable her 3rd contention since coming backmost from injuries that started astatine the 2022 Beijing Games, wherever she won metallic successful the aforesaid event.

Guimond, who hails from Gatineau, Que., won his sixth medal successful 7 World Cup races in 1:53.93.

The 25-year-old claimed bronze successful the subject astatine the past 2 Paralympics and finished 3rd on Thursday and Friday in Veysonnaz.

The World Cup finals proceed with slalom races connected Monday and Tuesday.