December 20, 2014 (Obertilliach, Austria) – Calgary’s Scott Gow, 24, delivered perfect shooting to take home the bronze in the men’s 10km Sprint IBU Cup at round #3 in Obertilliach, Austria on Friday – his best result at this level. He was only 1.6s behind winner Baptiste Jouty (France) who also cleaned, as Germany’s Florian Graf took second with one penalty at only 0.3s behind the winner.

Final podium (l-r) Graf 2nd, Jouty 1st, Gow 3rd © IBU

Gow led three other Canadian men on the start line including his brother Christian in 17th at 55.3s with one penalty, Macx Davis in 53rd at 2:29.1 behind with two standing penalties, and Carson Campbell who finished 83rd with four penalties at 3:37 back.

Audrey Vaillancourt © Jim Hegan

Fellow Canuck Audrey Vaillancourt also shot clean for a strong 7th place result finishing at 20.7s behind winner Iryna Varvynets (Ukraine) who cleaned as well, followed by Italy’s Federica Sanfilippo in second at 4.6 seconds back with one penalty. Russia’s Anna Nikulina suffered one penalty to take 3rd at 10s behind.

Canada’s Julia Ransom shot clean to finish 18th at 1:01.1 behind the winner while Zina Kocher was 25th with two penalties and Emma Lunder finished 60th also with two penalties.

Men’s results here.
Women’s results here.