Paralympic wake-up call: Mark Arendz collects Canada's 5th gold medal
Here's what you may have missed on Day 4 of the Beijing Paralympic Games
Mark Arendz stepped on a Beijing Paralympics podium once again on Tuesday — this time on top of it.
The Hartsville, P.E.I., native won the men's standing 10-kilometre biathlon event to claim his second medal in the Chinese capital following a bronze in the men's standing Para biathlon 6km sprint race on Day 1.
Arendz, 32, captured his tenth Paralympic medal (two gold, three silver and five bronze) over three Winter Games just one day after his streak of seven podiums in a row came to an end. On Monday, he placed fourth in the standing 20km classical technique cross-country event.
The Canadian's time of 31 minutes 45.2 seconds was 32.8 seconds faster than silver medallist Grygorii Vovchynskyi of Ukraine. Arendz was the only competitor in the 13-man field to shoot clean in the event.
Arendz's latest honour brings Team Canada's gold total to five and the overall medal count to 13 after four days of competition in Beijing. The country shows up third in the medal standings behind China (eight gold, 27 overall), and Ukraine (six gold, 17 overall).
Read more about Mark Arendz's 10th Paralympic medal.
WATCH l Arendz takes Para biathlon gold in Beijing:
Here's more of what you missed on Monday night and Tuesday morning in the Beijing Paralympics:
Para ice hockey team recovers in style
After a stunning 5-0 defeat to the U.S. on Saturday, Canada's men's Para ice hockey squad bounced back with a commanding 6-0 win over South Korea on Tuesday.
James Dunn posted a hat-trick in the shutout victory, with Liam Hickey, five-time Paralympian Billy Bridges and captain Tyler McGregor also finding the net. Canada limited South Korea to only four shots on target.
Canada (1-1) finished the group in second place, behind the U.S. (2-0). Both squads have clinched semifinal spots, while South Korea (0-2) will advance to the quarter-finals. Canada will face the winner of South Korea and Italy on Thursday at 10:50 p.m. ET.
Had it not been banned by the International Paralympic Committee, the Russian Paralympic Committee would have been the fourth team in Group A.
Group B, which featured China, Czech Republic, Italy and Slovakia, resumed action later on Tuesday as the Paralympic hosts clinched top spot in the group to set up a quarter-final matchup against Czech Republic.
Read more about Canada's victory over South Korea.
WATCH l James Dunn hat trick sends Canada to Para ice hockey semis:
Canada drops 3rd straight in wheelchair curling
After a blistering 4-0 start with wins over defending Paralympic champion China, the U.S., Latvia and Switzerland, Canada's wheelchair curling team dropped its third match in a row with a 9-8 defeat to Slovakia on Tuesday.
Canadian co-flag-bearer Ina Forrest, skip Mark Ideson, Dennis Thiessen and Jon Thurston had the hammer in the eighth end with a chance to score two and force an extra. However, Thurston's last draw came up short as Canada managed just one in the final end.
WATCH | Canada suffers 3rd straight loss in back-and-forth affair with Slovakia:
The Canadians suffered a 9-4 defeat to South Korea earlier on Tuesday, which followed a 6-3 loss to Sweden on Monday.
Canada is now 4-3 with three games remaining, and needs to finish top-four to advance to the semifinals.
Canada's final three round-robin games come on Wednesday against Great Britain at 1:30 a.m. ET., before facing Estonia at 6:30 a.m. ET. and Norway at 8:30 p.m. ET.
WATCH l Canada stunned by Republic of Korea in wheelchair curling:
Ukraine claims 2 more podium sweeps
Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, athletes from the latter country continue to shine in Beijing.
Team Ukraine earned two podium sweeps on Tuesday, capturing all medals available in the men's visually impaired middle distance Para biathlon race and in the women's standing middle distance Para nordic skiing event.
Vitaliy Lukyanenko, Anatolii Kovalevskyi and Dymtro Suiarko took gold, silver and bronze, respectively, in the men's race. Stunningly, the fourth- and fifth-placed athletes, Iaroslav Reshetynskyi and Oleksandr Kazik, were also Ukrainian.
Lukyanenko, 43, is the most successful men's Para biathlon athlete of all time, with eight gold medals, one silver and one bronze. He also has two silver and two bronze medals in Para cross-country skiing events.
In the women's race, Iryna Bui took gold as teammates Oleksandra Kononova and Liudmyla Liashenko earned silver and bronze, respectively.
On Day 1, the Para biathlon 6km sprint vision impaired race was all about Ukraine as well, with Lukyanenko, Kazik and Suiarko claiming gold, silver and bronze, in that order.
Here's a quick look at other Day 4 events in Beijing:
