Canadian Jean-Philippe Le Guellec wins gold at biathlon World Cup
OESTERSUND, Sweden – Jean-Philippe Le Guellec won gold Saturday to become the first Canadian to reach the podium at a men’s biathlon World Cup.
Le Guellec, of Shannon, Que., finished the 10-kilometre sprint in 25 minutes 10.4 seconds after shooting clean.
He finished just ahead of France’s Alexis Boeuf and Austria’s Christoph Sumann.
The previous best men’s World Cup result by a Canadian was a sixth-place finish by Glen Rupertus in 1993.
Zina Kocher of Red Deer, Alta., — the only other Canadian to finish on a podium in a biathlon World Cup in the past two decades — finished 10th in the women’s sprint.
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