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Beaudry 14th in world chamionship relay

The season is winding down on the World Cup biathlon circuit and Sarah Beaudry is still keeping her hometown of Prince George well represented.
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Sarah Beaudry of Prince George, shown racing last season on the BMX IBU World Cup biathlon tour in Oestersund, Sweden, has locked up a berth on the World Cup team after two second-place finishes this week at the senior national team trials in Canmore.

The season is winding down on the World Cup biathlon circuit and Sarah Beaudry is still keeping her hometown of Prince George well represented.

Saturday at the world championships in Oestersund, Sweden the 23-year-old Caledonia Nordic Ski Club member raced the lead leg for Canada in the women’s 4 X 6 kilometre relay and helped the team to a 14th-place finish in the 23-team event.

Beaudry hit 18 of 20 targets and needed just two spare bullets in four shooting rounds as she teamed up with Emma Lunder of Vernon, Megan Bankes of Calgary and Rosanna Crawford of Canmore to finish 3:39.9 behind the winning 1:12:0 pace of Norway (Synnoeve Solemdal, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu Roeiseland). Norway skied one penalty loop and had to reload their rifles eight times after misses (1+8). Canada (1+9) also had to ski a penalty loop.

Sweden (0+6, +24.3) and Ukraine (0+5, +35.1) won silver and bronze.

In the men’s 4 X 7.5 km relay, Canada (Scott and Christian Gow of Canmore, Aidan Millar of Canmore and Jules Brunotte of Sherbrooke, Que.) finished 13th (0+6, +3:10.7).

Norway (Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen, Tarjei Boe and Johannes Thingnes Boe) won gold in 1:12:03.7 with just six misses on the range.

Germany (0+8, +38.1) captured silver and Russia (0+7, 1:04.1) claimed bronze in the 26-team event.

The World Cup tour wraps up next week in Oslo, Norway.