Paralympic wake-up call: Canada grabs 4 medals, secures another in Para ice hockey

Four Canadian athletes added more hardware to the country's Beijing Paralympics medal haul between Thursday night and early Friday morning.

Mollie Jepsen, Mark Arendz, Brittany Hudak and Tyler Turner returned to the podium to push Team Canada's medal count to 20.

And another prize is already secured, as the Canadian men's Para ice hockey team breezed past South Korea 11-0 to qualify for the tournament's final.

The West Vancouver, B.C., native posted the third best time in the first run, moving into the top position after finishing her second attempt with only two other skiers to go.

When Sweden's Ebba Aarsjoe crashed out on her second run, Jepsen's worst-case-scenario improved from bronze to silver. And that's what ended up happening after Zhang Mengqiu of China posted the best time in the second run — just as she did in her first go — to strike gold.

It was Jepsen who captured Canada's first Beijing Paralympics gold medal last Friday, in the women's standing downhill event.

WATCH l Canada's Jepsen captures 2nd medal at Beijing 2022:

Hartsville, P.E.I., native Arendz added to his medal collection with a men's standing 12.5-kilometre biathlon silver.

The 32-year-old's time of 40:13 was enough for him to add an 11th career medal over four Paralympic Games.

Arendz went six for six in medals at PyeongChang 2018, setting a Canadian record for most medals in a single Winter Paralympics.

He now has a medal of each colour in Beijing after capturing the men's 6km standing biathlon sprint bronze last Friday and winning the men's standing 10km biathlon event on Tuesday.

WATCH l Canada's Arendz completes Beijing Paralympics set with a silver medal:

Read more about Jepsen's and Arendz's silver medals.

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