Canada's Mark Arendz struck gold in the men's standing 12.5-kilometre individual biathlon event at the Para nordic World Cup finals on Saturday in Midway, Utah.
The 32-year-old from Hartsville, P.E.I., used a combination of fast skiing and sharp shooting to top the podium with a time of 33 minutes 25 seconds at the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center.
Arendz, a four-time Paralympian, won silver in the event at the Beijing Paralympics in March 2022. Arendz delivered near-perfect shooting on Sunday, with just one miss in 20 shots across four rounds.
A one-minute penalty for every missed shot is added to the total time. "I had that one mistake on the range where I lost focus for a fraction of a second, but I could rely on my skiing to pull me out of trouble and onto the top step of the podium," Arendz said.