Ski Mountaineering

[Josh 11,497]

This thread will be used to track Canada’s most notable performances on the road to it’s Olympic debut at Milano-Cortina 2026! Emma Cook-Clarke and Kylee Ohler are our best female athletes, while on the men’s side Matt Ruta is our best athlete. Bit of a tossup whether we qualify however, we’re quite far down the rankings and will likely be relying on a continental quota unless something drastic changes. 

[JockCartier 243]

Watched a couple skimo world cups on Youtube. It's interesting. I prefer the longer course races, but don't imagine we'll be getting that at the Olympics. Guess we'll see how it goes. It's something different anyway. 

[JockCartier 243]

CBC posted the SkiMo test event on their Youtube

 

Interesting getting a preview of the venue, probably a pretty good idea of how the mixed relay race will go next year too

Seems like Canada's qualification hopes will rest on beating the US for the continental spot. We're not far behind in the standings. Would have actually been really close if we didn't get a penalty in the final, actually beat them to the line just barely for 11th, but then Poland and Canada got 10s penalties, so US ended up 10th and we ended up 12th

 

Edited February 23 by JockCartier

[Josh 11,497]

Not sure how much of an impact it’ll have on the standings, but Canada finished 10th in the mixed relay compared to 12th for the US. Should close the gap I think? 

[JockCartier 243]

8 hours ago, Josh said:

Not sure how much of an impact it’ll have on the standings, but Canada finished 10th in the mixed relay compared to 12th for the US. Should close the gap I think? 

I think Canada was down 11 points before the race, and they flashed the standings before signing off and it looked like Canada was now down 6 points

Edited March 3 by JockCartier

[Josh 11,497]

8th for Emma Cooke Clarke in women’s sprint at the ISMF World Championships!

 

Unfortunately, our men struggled. Top men were Aaron Robinson and Matt Ruta in 45th/46th, and around 17 places behind the top American. 

[JockCartier 243]

Looks like there will be one last event before the window closes, the mixed qualifying spot will ride on one race, Dec 6th and the US will have home field advantage https://www.skimostats.com/world-cup/2026