Victoria, BC – After additional than two thrilling months, Crew Canada has wrapped yet another productive Winter Olympics in Beijing 2022 with a full of 26 medals. This is a tie with Vancouver 2010 for the 2nd most medals ever gained by Canada at a Winter season Game titles.
Crew Canada’s 26 medals also placed them fourth in the all round medal depend at the Beijing 2022 Winter season Olympics. Of those 26 medals, 15 (58%) were being gained by BC connected and CSI Pacific affiliated athletes.
The Canadian Olympic group featured 215 athletes in whole, of those people:
• 34% have been BC Connected and they won 58% of Staff Canada’s medals
• All 34% had been also CSI Pacific Affiliated i.e. they gained sport science and activity medicine help from CSI Pacific and/or the PacificSport network
The medal figures higher than exhibit that B.C. linked athletes carry on to punch previously mentioned their weight on the world stage, successful an remarkable share of medals dependent on the range of athletes competing.
Along with successful medals, several B.C. linked athletes had considerable personal achievements and personalized bests in the course of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Video games. Some examples incorporate:
• Mikaël Kingsbury turned the 1st male freestyle skier to at any time win 3 straight Olympic medals, and he is Canada’s most decorated freestyle skier in Olympic opposition
• Lewis Irving was part of the team that won Bronze in the Mixed Group Aerials function, Canada’s 1st Olympic medal in an aerials occasion in 20 decades
• Jack Crawford became the initial Canadian to at any time arrive at the podium in an Alpine Merged function at the Olympic Winter Games
• Christine de Bruin gained Canada’s initially ever medal in Women’s Monobob and
• Mark McMorris is the initially athlete to win 3 consecutive Bronze medals in the same Olympic occasion in excess of three different Wintertime Games
“Canada’s athletes have constantly revealed the earth how challenging and resilient they are, but the Beijing Online games took it to a full other amount,” claimed CSI Pacific CEO Wendy Pattenden. “On major of the unbelievable mental toughness it took these athletes to make it to Beijing as a result of the pandemic, they also confirmed phenomenal physical and psychological power to get over accidents and health issues and prosper on the world’s major stage. Our group of sport science and activity medicine practitioners at CSI Pacific are privileged to get the job done with these athletes and our Nationwide Sport Corporation associates in excess of this earlier quadrennial and at these Wintertime Olympics.”
B.C. affiliated athletes and coaches count closely on packages and donations from all amounts of governing administration together with Have the Podium and Sport Canada in mix with the management and dedication of viaSport, National Sport Companies and Provincial Sport Organizations all through the province.
“On behalf of viaSport, congratulations to the B.C. athletes, coaches and staff on a momentous Video games! Listening to tales of the huge planning that goes into every single of these Olympic performances is unbelievable. viaSport is happy to aid a B.C. beginner sport system that not only aids these champions glow, but grows possibilities for all people who is encouraged by them to join in and take part. These Olympics have revealed that when folks of all ages, skills and backgrounds have the likelihood to take part in sport, awesome matters can happen. I hope these performances inspire far more British Columbians to seek out out individuals opportunities and be element of the sport local community appropriate listed here at property.”
With the demanding limitations to preserve the athlete and coaches secure and healthful for the duration of the Olympic Game titles, CSI Pacific sent a few team customers to Beijing 2022 to aid Group Canada athletes in certain sports activities.
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific Workers Doing work at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games
Employees Member | Willpower | Sport |
Craig Hill | Power & Conditioning and Integrated Aid Workforce Lead | Ski Cross |
Andrew Kates | Strength & Conditioning | Freestyle Moguls |
Megan Kamachi | Overall performance Know-how | Group Canada Mission Staff |
Canadian Activity Institute Pacific Affiliated Athletes Who Received an Olympic Medal at Beijing 2022
(listed by activity, then surname)
Athlete | Sport | Medal |
Jack Crawford | Alpine Snowboarding – Blended | Bronze |
Justin Kripps, Ryan Sommer, Ben Coakwell, Cam Stones | Bobsleigh – Four-guy | Bronze |
Christine de Bruin | Bobsleigh – Monobob | Bronze |
Lewis Irving | Freestyle Skiing – Aerials (Mixed Crew) | Bronze |
Rachael Karker | Freestyle Skiing – Halfpipe | Bronze |
Cassie Sharpe | Freestyle Skiing – Halfpipe | Silver |
Mikaël Kingsbury | Freestyle Skiing – Moguls | Silver |
Micah Zandee-Hart | Ice Hockey – Women’s | Gold |
Marielle Thompson | Ski Cross | Silver |
Mark McMorris | Snowboard – Slopestyle | Bronze |
Max Parrot | Snowboard – Slopestyle Snowboard – Significant Air |
Gold Bronze |
Eliot Grondin | Snowboard Cross – Men’s Snowboard Cross – Blended |
Silver Bronze |
Meryeta O’Dine | Snowboard Cross – Women’s Snowboard Cross – Combined |
Bronze Bronze |
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About Canadian Activity Institute Pacific
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Noah Wheelock
Normal Manager, Functions & Communications
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
nwheelock@csipacific.ca
250.813.3474