Calgary’s Oatway races to Super G gold at Pyeongchang Paralympics

JEONGSEON, Korea, Republic Of — Canada’s Kurt Oatway raced to gold in men’s sitting Super G at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Sunday.

The 34-year-old from Calgary skied to a time of one minute 25.83 seconds, 1.06 seconds ahead of silver medallist Andrew Kurka of the United States. Frederic Francois of France won bronze.

“It’s hard to explain how good I feel right now. (Saturday’s) downhill was a big disappointment for me,” said Oatway, who was eighth in the downhill. Coming back and winning the Super G is the best feeling ever. I went from feeling super low to feeling super high. It’s amazing.” 

Oatway started skiing when he was five, but in 2007, while on a university field trip in Utah, he fell 12 metres from a rock outcrop, and suffered a spinal cord injury.