Sarah Beaudry and Emily Dickson are back on the international biathlon trail.
The two Caledonia Nordic Ski Club members are racing today in Germany.
Beaudry, 24, is scheduled to start 35th out of the gate in today's BMW World Cup women's 7.5-kilometre sprint in Ruhpolding, among four Canadian women entered. Beaudry helped Canada to a 13th-place finish Sunday in the women's relay in Oberhof, Germany. The Prince George native posted her best-ever Word Cup result Dec. 21 in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, placing 12th in the sprint.
Dickson, 21, is in Arber for the IBU Cup women's short 12.5 km individual race and will start 65th. Dickson is coming off a 44th-place result Sunday in an IBU Cup sprint in Dusniki Zdroj, Poland.
Dickson, a native of Burns Lake, has been selected to Canada's junior/youth national team for the seventh time and will race at the junior world championships which start Monday in Slovakia.
Also racing today in the World Cup, Emma Lunder of Vernon is fourth in the sprint order, Rosanna Crawford of Canmore will start 68th and Megan Bankes of Calgary is 88th on the list. The 10 km men's sprint includes Jules Burnotte of Sherbrooke, Que., (starting fifth), Christian Gow of Canmore (42nd), Scott Gow of Canmore (75th) and Aidan Millar of Canmore (95th).
A men's relay is scheduled for Friday, the women's relay is on Saturday and mass start races are on tap for Sunday.
The World Cup tour will make one more European stop next week in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, before it returns to North America for races in Canmore, Feb. 4-10 and Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 11-17.
Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yukon, who finished ninth in Sunday's 7.5 km sprint in Poland, will start today's IBU Cup race 45th. Four Canadian men are entered in the 10 km sprint, including Brendan Green of Hay River, N.W.T. (starting 27th).
