By The Canadian Press

More silver for Canada as Grondin, Kingsbury finish second in snowboard cross, moguls

Feb 12, 2026 | 3:03 AM

MILAN — Canada added three more medals to its haul at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6 — two silvers on the hills of Livigno and a bronze on the short-track oval in Milan.

Snowboarder Eliot Grondin secured the latest medal for Canada after finishing just behind Austrian Alessandro Haemmerle in men’s snowboard cross, the Canadian’s third-ever Olympic medal.

Grondin’s previous haul includes another silver at the same event in Beijing 2022, where the 24-year-old from Ste-Marie, Que., also finished second to Haemmerle.

“A lot of emotion, for sure,” Grondin said. “Sharing the podium with Haemmerle again … it’s been tight with him, but he’s been one of my biggest rivals since I started racing snowboard cross at a high level.

“… We came here for gold, but at the same time, I rode as good as I could today. I had fun, silver it is and I can be happy with my week.”

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In men’s moguls earlier in the day, freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury missed out on gold in the narrowest of fashions — with a tiebreaker — while claiming silver.

Kingsbury, 33, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., matched the exact score of Australia’s Cooper Woods of 83.71 in the final run but lost out due to the Australian scoring higher marks for turns.

“I feel amazing. I’m very happy with my skiing. It was close, a tiebreak — unfortunately, I’m the guy not on the good side of it. But I’ve worked very hard for this medal,” Kingsbury said.

It is Kingsbury’s fourth medal after gold in Pyeongchang 2018, as well as silver medals at both Beijing 2022 and Sochi 2014.

On the short-track oval in Milan, Courtney Sarault captured bronze in the women’s 500 metres, crossing in 42.427 seconds.

The 25-year-old from Moncton edged the Netherlands’ Selma Poutsma at the line to secure her second medal of the Games after earlier silver in the mixed team relay.

Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands won gold in 41.609, with Italy’s Arianna Fontana taking silver.

In the men’s 1,000 metres, Montreal’s William Dandjinou finished fourth after leading into the final lap before being passed on the inside by the Netherlands’ Jens van ’t Wout as China’s Sun Long and South Korea’s Rim Jongun also slipped through down the stretch.

In Tesero, Edmonton’s Alison Mackie finished eighth in the women’s 10-kilometre interval start, 1:17.9 behind Sweden’s Frida Karlsson, who led a Swedish one-two ahead of Ebba Andersson, with American Jessie Diggins taking bronze.

In men’s hockey, Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring and Jordan Binnington made 26 saves for the shutout as the star-studded Canadian team opened their quest for gold with a 5-0 victory over Czechia.

Mark Stone, Bo Horvat, Nathan MacKinnon and Nick Suzuki scored Canada’s other goals, while Connor McDavid chipped in with three assists.

“I thought the team overall was great. We had contributions all over the lineup and it was a good win,” McDavid said after the match.

“I thought as the game went, we got our legs going. We were able to sustain a bit of offensive pressure on them and kind of tilt the rink on them.”

MacKinnon added he thought the game had “a tough first period.”

“The Olympics are huge, and I was nervous. I can usually sleep before a game and I could not sleep,” he said. “We are good at what we do, but we feel like kids at this tournament.”

The Canadians meet the Swiss on Friday.

Elsewhere, Canada’s women’s hockey team, still without captain Marie-Philip Poulin due to injury, rebounded quite nicely with a 5-0 win over Finland.

Emily Clark, with two goals, Jennifer Gardiner, Daryl Watts and Kristin O’Neill scored in the win after Canada suffered a rough 5-0 loss to the United States on Tuesday.

“I think our team had a message to send. We hold ourselves to very high standards, so just continuing to work on our details, elevate our game, be the best that we can be and show the world what we have,” said Gardiner.

The Canadians will next face Germany in the quarterfinals on Saturday.

On the long-track oval, Canadian speedskater Isabelle Weidemann missed the podium in the women’s 5,000 metres, finishing fifth, 3.91 seconds behind gold medallist Francesca Lollobrigida of Italy.

Lollobrigida edged Merel Conijn of the Netherlands for gold, while Norway’s Ragne Wiklund took bronze.

Weidemann won silver in the event four years ago in Beijing.

In the women’s snowboard halfpipe, Elizabeth Hosking from Longueuil, Que., failed to podium, finishing 11th in the competition won by South Korea’s Gaon Choi.

High-profile American snowboarder Chloe Kim finished second and won the silver medal.

Canada ended Day 6 with a total of seven medals, 3 silver and four bronze.

This is a corrected story. A previous version stated that Kingsbury won bronze instead of silver at Beijing 2022 and Sochi 2014.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.

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