Sarah Beaudry missed only one out of 20 shots en route to a bronze medal in the 10km pursuit at the 2014 Youth/Junior Biathlon championships Sunday in Presque Isle, Maine.
The 19-year-old from Prince George started in 29th position with a 2 minute, 27 second handicap from Saturday's junior women's sprint result.
Despite the time differential, Beaudry flew past competitor after competitor until she was third after the first standing shooting stage.
Her overall time of 34:44.3 was only 2:08 minutes behind gold medal winner Galina Vishnevskaya of Kazakhstan, and only 57.8 seconds behind Germany's Luise Kummer who won silver.
Vishnevskaya missed only two targets, while Kummer shot clean over four rounds. She was the only woman out of 45 to shoot clean.
Beaudry's only miss came in the her second prone shooting stage as biathles alternate between two prone and two standing rounds of shooting. Julia Ransom of Kelowna finished right behind Beaudry, clocking 35:04:02, missing only two targets.
Beaudry's Prince George teammate Emily Dickson, 16, was the top Canadian woman in Friday's 6km youth sprint, clocking 20 minutes, 34.7 seconds.
Dickson shot a clean round in her prone shooting and only missed one in the standing position.
Italy's Lisa Vittozzi won the race, missing only one standing target for an overall time of 18:49.9.
Vitozzi also won the youth women's 7.5km pursuit, with a time of 24:39.9.
Dickson finished 20th overall, clocking 26:09.3. She missed three out of 20 targets.
The 2014 Youth/Junior championships continue with the individual competitions on Tuesday with the youth events and Wednesday for the junior events. The individual event is the longest of the biathlon competitions with timed penalties for misses (one minute per miss) rather than penalty loops.
