February 07, 2019 (Canmore, Alberta) – Canada’s Christian Gow raced to a career-best 10th in the men’s 15km individual on home snow with one penalty as the Canmore leg of the BMW IBU World Cup kicked off on Thursday delivering a fab result for the partisan crowd. The top American was Sean Doherty in 27th with two missed targets.

Frigid temperatures forced the shortening of the men’s individual from 20km to 15km as Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe shot clean for the win with compatriot Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen finishing second with one penalty at 2:10.2 back, while Russia’s Alexander Loginov placed third with two penalties at 2:41 behind Boe.

“Racing at home is awesome,” said Gow in a post-race interview. “I’ve got tons of people in the stands. They never get to see us race, right, and to have a good race, it’s even better.”

“To be honest, today was the warmest day we had all week,” said Doherty. “It is nice to have winter conditions here in Canmore. Dealing with the cold hasn’t been too difficult. The short individual format is nice. It’s like I used to race as a junior. It was a good call for the conditions today.”

Canada’s Scott Gow placed 40th Leif Nordgren (USA) was 43rd, also with two penalties, Jules Burnotte (Can) finished 57t, Max Durtschi (USA) was 71s, Travis Cooper (USA) placed 73rd and hometown athlete Aidan Miller (Can) was 81st.

Results here.