Canada’s Jack Crawford gained a bronze medal within the alpine mixed tournament on Thursday on the Beijing Olympics.
It marked Canada’s first Wintry weather Video games medal in alpine snowboarding since Jan Hudec took bronze within the Tremendous-G in 2014 in Sochi.
Crawford turns into simply the fourth Canadian male skier to win an alpine medal on the Olympics.
Canada now has 9 medals in Beijing — one gold, two silver and 6 bronze.
The 24-year-old Crawford, from Toronto, used to be moment and simply two hundredths of a moment again of chief Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway after the downhill.
Crawford, snowboarding straight away after Kilde within the slalom, used to be very shut with the Norwegian ahead of his mixed time ended up 9 hundredths again.
Then again, Austria’s Johannes Strolz, who used to be fourth within the downhill, used to be the one racer to move underneath 48 seconds within the slalom (47.56) to take gold. He completed .59 seconds forward of the second-place Kilde.
Broderick Thompson of Whistler, B.C., who used to be 3rd after the downhill, struggled within the slalom and ended up 8th. Brodie Seger of North Vancouver, B.C., used to be 9th and Trevor Philp of Calgary didn’t end his slalom run.
It’s been a powerful Olympics for Crawford, who used to be fourth within the downhill and 6th within the Tremendous-G.
Crawford completed fourth within the mixed finally 12 months’s International Championships.
