Team Manitoba's medal count at the 2023 Canada Winter Games is growing.
On Tuesday, Team Manitoba announced two more medals – a bronze in cross-country skiing and a silver in fencing.
Jesse Bachinsky, 24, won the bronze medal in the Para-Nordic standing 2.5 km classic race.
"The course is incredibly wicked fast, and there's lots of technical climbs and downhills, and it's a really great place to race and train," Bachinsky said in a news release.
He said this is his third Canada Games.
Sixteen-year-old Cheryl Cheung brought home the other medal Рa silver in the female ̩p̩e individual event.
"It's awesome to medal in my first event, I fought really hard," said Cheung. "My teammates cheered for me, and my coach helped me out a lot. And I'm really grateful for this experience."
This brings Manitoba's total medal count to eight, including three gold medals, four silver medals, and one bronze.
Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/team-manitoba-nets-new-medals-in-fencing-cross-country-skiing-1.6293059