Skier takes third gold at Canada Games

Logan Cox certainly made the most of his Canada Winter Games opportunities on the cross-country ski trails in Brookvale, P.E.I..

Three races. Three gold medals.

The 16-year-old D.P. Todd Secondary School student will have lot to talk about with his classmates this week after he dominated the field in the para-nordic standing events at the Games.

Cox won his third gold medal Friday when he won the five-kilometre freestyle race, completing the course in 12 minutes 33 seconds, more than two minutes ahead of silver medalist Felix Lafond of Quebec.

Cox helped Team B.C lock up third place in the medal standings and the province finished with 103 medals, including 46 gold, 26 silver and 31 bronze. Quebec topped the medal count with 151 (57 G, 43 S, 51 B) and Ontario was seconds with 108 (32 G, 43 S, 33 B).

In archery, Mason Pollard of Prince George qualified fifth in the male compound bow class with a two-round total of 1,141 points and lost 140-135 to Ryan Cherniak of Ontario in the quarter-final round. Cherniak went on to win bronze. Pollard, a member of the Silvertip Archers club, placed eighth overall.  

Three athletes from the Prince George Judo Club – Lily McCullough, Alandra Steiger and Hannah Yin - were in the medal hunt right up until Saturday, the final day of competition in Charlottetown, P.E.I., but ended up fifth in the team event after losing 10-0 to Ontario in the bronze-medal round.

McCullough competed individually in the -70 kilogram weight class and lost her bronze-medal match 10-0 to Abigail Smith of Nova Scotia. In the individual -63 kg class, Yin went 1-2 in her bouts and Steiger finished 0-2.