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Canada's Lauren Woolstencroft races to giant slalom gold on Tuesday. Two days later, she added downhill gold for her third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
March 18, 2010
Three races, three gold for Lauren
Posted by Rob Klovance
Canada's Lauren Woolstencroft has done it again, winning her third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games by finishing first in the women's standing downhill ski race Thursday at Whistler.
Woolstencroft's winning time of one minute, 25.54 seconds was 4.4 seconds faster than silver medallist Solene Jambaque of France. Germany's Andrea Rothfuss took the bronze for her third medal of these Games.
Canadian veteran Karolina Wisniewska, who won bronze behind Rothfuss and Woolstencroft on Monday, finished fifth.
The third gold medal for Woolstencroft follows wins in the slalom and giant slalom earlier this week and, with eight medals in her career, gives the 28-year-old BC Hydro engineer the most career medals of any Canadian female skier.
Japan upsets Canada in sledge hockey
In a shocker at UBC's Thunderbird Arena, Japan scored twice in the third period to beat the heavily-favoured Canadian team 3-1 in one of two sledge hockey games Thursday.
The other game, featuring the U.S. against Norway, was slated for Thursday night.
Rob Klovance is managing editor of bchydro.com.
