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Canada’s Mark Arendz collected his 14th career Paralympic medal while teammate Brittany Hudak earned her fourth in Wednesday’s cross-country skiing races at Milano Cortina.
Both Canadians took bronze in their respective 10-kilometre interval start classic events at Tesero Cross-country Skiing Stadium in Val di Fiemme.
Arendz, 36, captured his second medal of these Games with a time of 27 minutes 59.3 seconds, crossing the finish line behind France’s Karl Tabouret (27:10.7) and Belarus’ Raman Svirydzenka (27:38.4).
The five-time Paralympian from Hartsville, P.E.I., won silver in the men’s standing individual biathlon event last Sunday.
Hudak, from Prince Albert, Sask., secured her spot on the podium with a time of 32:01.0, placing her behind American Sydney Peterson (29:49.2) and Norway’s Vile Nilsen (29:51.8).
It marks the first medal in Italy for the 32-year-old Hudak, a co-captain of Canada’s Paralympic delegation.
The two medals inch Canada closer to the vaunted 200 total Winter Paralympic medal mark, as the country currently sits at 198 overall.
Canada now has 10 medals through five days of competition at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics — one gold, three silver, six bronze. The full medal table is available here.
Brittany Hudak of Prince Albert, Sask., won her first medal at Milano Cortina 2026, claiming bronze in the women’s 10km interval start standing classic race.
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