Kimberley’s Kalle Eriksson and his guide Sierra Smith have won two medals at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics.
This is the Paralympic debut for the duo and they started things out with a silver medal on Saturday in the men’s visually impaired downhill, hitting a time of 1.18.11 and marking the first medal for Canada at the event.
They then followed this up with a bronze medal in the men’s visually impaired Super-G for their second podium in two events.
Eriksson has been a para-athlete since 2022, after he started losing his vision from a rare instance of solar retinopathy while he was skiing on a glacier in Sweden.
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He and Smith, a former elite ski racer from Ottawa, communicate through a two-way headset as they ski down their runs. They’ve worked together since 2022 and together have so far won 22 medals on the World Cup circuit.
Canada has won a total of seven medals at the Paralympic Winter Games.
The Bulletin has reached out to Eriksson and the story will be updated after an interview has been completed.