Team Canada at Beijing 2022: Day 6

Canada’s first medallist of Beijing 2022 goes for the podium again, it’s time for the men to race for a medal in snowboard cross, and Team Canada gets going in men’s hockey and women’s curling. 

Here’s what you’ll want to be watching on Day 6. 

Beijing 2022 Competition Schedule and Results

Long Track Speed Skating

Isabelle Weidemann will be the lone Canadian in the women’s 5000m after Ivanie Blondin decided to withdraw. That is to maximize Canada’s performance in the team pursuit in the coming days. Weidemann is going for her second medal after winning bronze in the 3000m. She was fourth in the 5000m at the 2021 World Championships and was on the podium in the only World Cup race over the distance this season.  

Alpine Skiing

After his close call in the downhill, Jack Crawford stepped on the Olympic podium, winning bronze in the men’s alpine combined. Crawford had been second in the downhill portion of the event and then did what he needed to do in the slalom to hold onto third place.

READ: Crawford wins bronze for Canada’s first ever Olympic medal in alpine combined

Two other Canadians were in the top 10. Broderick Thompson placed eighth with Brodie Seger right behind in ninth. Seger had been third after the downhill, but was racing slalom for the first time in two years. Trevor Philp was unable to finish the slalom race.

Snowboard

At 20 years old, Eliot Grondin became the youngest ever Olympic medallist in men’s snowboard cross, winning the silver medal. He was just beaten to the line for the gold medal in a photo finish. Kevin Hill and Liam Moffatt did not advance past the quarterfinals.

Elizabeth Hosking and Brooke D’Hondt will compete in the 12-woman halfpipe final. Each rider will do three runs, with the single best score counting towards the results.

Curling

After opening with a 10-5 over Denmark, Team Gushue will take on Norway in their second match of the men’s tournament at Beijing 2022. That will be followed by Team Jones getting going in the women’s tournament. They start with a match against the reigning Olympic silver medallists from South Korea. 

Ice Hockey

Team Canada will finally play their first match of the men’s tournament. They open against Team Germany. 

Freestyle Skiing

It’s time for the Olympic debut of the mixed team aerials event. Each athlete on the three-member teams will make one jump in the first final. The team score is calculated by adding together all the scores. The top four teams will advance to final two. The scores from the first final are not carried over to the second final. The members of Canada’s team will be decided closer to the start of the event. 

Figure Skating

Keegan Messing will skate in the fourth in the second last flight of the men’s free skate, hoping to move up from his ninth place ranking after the short program. 

Luge

The last event of the luge competition will be the team relay. Trinity Ellis will start for Canada, followed by Reid Watts before Tristan Walker and Justin Snith slide the anchor leg. 

Cross-Country Skiing

In the women’s 10km classic interval start race, Cendrine Browne will depart second, Dahria Beatty head out 10^th, Katherine Stewart-Jones started 24^th, and Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt will go 79^th. 

Skeleton

Blake Enzie will compete in runs one and two of the men’s event, with runs three and four following the next day.