November 07, 2018 (Canmore , AB) – This week, starting from Nov. 6, the Biathlon Canada Selection Trials will take place at the Canmore Nordic Centre and continue on Nov. 7 with the final wrap up event on Friday, Nov. 9. This year’s Selection Trials will certainly have a World Cup feel and athletes’ motivation to excel will be running as high as ever knowing that the BMW IBU World Cup circuit will return to Canmore in February 2019.

Athletes selected will be notified by Monday, 12 November 12 and the team will leave for Europe later this month. Rosanna Crawford and Scott Gow are pre-selected for World Cup given their top 16 results from prior season. Athletes will also be competing for spots to represent the international “B level circuit”, the IBU Cup.

The last time Canmore hosted a World Cup Biathlon event was in 2016 and that was the largest biathlon competition in the history of the Canmore Nordic Centre outside of the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. Key figures from that event include 345 volunteers, 25 participating nations, 22,000 spectators and 48.6 million TV viewers on 76.5 hrs of broadcast time. All indicators tell us that the 2019 World Cup event will be even larger.

Selection trial formats and dates are as follows:
– Tuesday, November 6: Sprint Competition #1, 10.00: Women, 11.00: Men
– Thursday, November 8: Sprint Competition #2: 10.00: Men, 11.00: Men
– Friday, November 9: Relay (Modified): 10.00: Women, 11.00: Men

For more info and to register visit here.