A month after she missed the cut to make Canada’s World Cup biathlon team at the team trials in Canmore, Megan Tandy is back on the international racing scene when she takes the first leg of the IBU Cup mixed relay today Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
Tandy, a 29-year-old product of the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club in Prince George, will form the two-female, two-male mixed relay team with Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yukon, Matthew Hudec of North Battleford, Sask., and Macx Davies of Canmore, Alta. They will start 14th out of 23 teams.
There will also be Prince George content in the single mixed relay (one female, one male) that precedes the mixed relay in Lenzerheide. Sarah Beaudry, 23, a Prince George native who now lives in Canmore, will once again team up with Carsen Campbell of Bedeque, P.E.I. for the single relay.
Last weekend in the same event at the season-opening IBU Cup races in Sjojoen, Norway, Beaudry and Campbell just missed the medal podium, finishing fourth. They will start today’s race 14th out of 28 teams.
In biathlon relays, women ski a six-kilometre course while the men race for 7.5 km. Each racer is expected to complete two shooting bouts, one prone, one standing.
Women’s and men’s sprint races are scheduled for Saturday, with the top 60 in each qualifying for Sunday’s pursuits.
Meanwhile, in BMW World Cup action today in Hochfilzen, Austria, Emma Lunder of Vernon will start the women’s 7.5 km sprint second in the order, followed by Julia Ransom of Kelowna, who starts 44th, Rosanna Crawford of Canmore, 63rd; and Megan Bankes of Calgary, 96th. Ransom finished ninth in the individual race at the World Cup season-opener last weekend in Oestersund, Sweden.
The men’s 7.5 km sprint start list today includes Nathan Smith of Calgary, 12th; Christian Gow of Canmore, 60th; Scott Gow of Canmore, 87th; and Brendan Green of Hay River, N.W.T., 107th.
Pursuits will follow on Saturday and relays are scheduled for Sunday.
