Canada’s Mark Arendz captures para biathlon gold

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BEIJING – Hartsville, P.E.I. native Mark Arendz won a gold medal in the men’s middle distance standing para biathlon event at the 2022 Beijing Paralympics.

Arendz finished the race with a final time of 31 minutes, 45 seconds and two tenths, 32.8 seconds faster than silver medallist Grygorii Vovchynskyi of Ukraine and nearly a minute and a half faster than Kazakhstan’s Alexandr Gerlits, who won bronze.

This is the second medal the 32-year-old Arendz is picking up at the Games. He previously won a bronze in the six-kilometre standing biathlon race.

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This is the 10th medal Arendz has earned in his decorated Paralympic career, and second gold he’s earned.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2022.