Para cross-country skiing | Canmore: Benjamin Daviet out in the semi-finals and seventh in the sprint skating event

Para cross-country skiing: no podium for Benjamin Daviet in the free sprint at Canmore

This Saturday, classic sprints were contested in Canmore (Canada) as part of the first stage of the 2025/2026 para cross-country skiing world cup. In Alberta, Benjamin Daviet, competing in the standing category, was not successful.

Seventh in the qualifying heat, he was effectively eliminated at the gates of the final after finishing fourth in his half, just … just 3 hundredths behind his Ukrainian rival Grygorii Vovchynskyi. The Bornandin thus took seventh place. Victory went to Ukraine’s Serhii Romaniuk ahead of Japan’s Taiki Kawayoke and his compatriot Serafym Drahun.

In the women’s category, it was the untouchable Norwegian Vilde Nilsen who won. She was joined on the podium by Canadian Natalie Wilkie and Ukrainian Oleksandra Kononova. France’s Cléo Blanc, fourteenth, and Chloé Pinto, fifteenth, were left stranded in the qualifiers.

Alexis Sanchez close to the finals

In the seated category, Alexis Sanchez of France, who finished thirteenth and was the first to be eliminated from the qualifying round by 1 sec 5, can have a few regrets. In the final, Italian Giuseppe Romele won ahead of Canadian Collin Cameron and American Aaron Pike. In the women’s event, it was Pike’s wife, Oksana Masters, who raised her arms, beating South Korea’s Yunji Kim and Germany’s Anja Wicker in the final.

In the visually impaired category, France’s Maxime Gayet (guided by Alexis Bernard) came seventeenth, missing out on a place in the finals. Germany’s Lennart Mattis Volkert (guided by Nils Kolb) was the winner, ahead of Sweden’s Zebastian Modin (guided by Emil Talsi) and his compatriot Nico Messinger (guided by Robin Wunderle).

Finally, Germany’s Leonie Maria Walter (guided by Florian Winker) triumphed in the women’s final ahead of Canada’s Maddie Mullin (guided by Brooke Ailey) and Japan’s Kotoha Matsudo (guided by Yuji Shimada).

Full results

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Sitting

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Visually impaired

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