The Alberta BIathlon Club (ABC) needs your help on April 23 & 24, 2023, during their upcoming casino at the PURE CASINO CALGARY.

This club, with only a small number of members, helps many Alberta programs by subsidising different initiatives every year. This fundraiser will help our biathlon community in Alberta and the growth of our sport!

Please help if you are available.

For more information, please visit their website HERE

Alberta’s athletes had already two good days at the 2023 National Championships last week with a total of 27 medals after 2 days of competitions.

Saturday’s Mass Start added 17 to the total medal count. The medal winners were:

Anna Sellers, Women, GOLD (Alberta member, racing for Sovereign)

Anne Mirejovsky, Women, SILVER

Danika Burke, Junior Women, GOLD

Anna Perry, Junior Women, SILVER

Julia Bartlett, Youth Women, SILVER

Clara Neander, Youth Women, BRONZE

Flora Csonka, Senior Girls, SILVER

Bjorn Baergen, Youth Men, GOLD

Liam Tinworth, Youth Men, SILVER

Luke Hulshof, Senior Boys, GOLD

Justin Konoff, Senior Boys, SILVER

Kase Repp, Senior Boys, BRONZE

Eric Lemee, Masters 35, GOLD

Jeannot Desaulniers, Masters 50, GOLD

Trevor Baine, Masters 50, BRONZE

Jacqueline Hutchinson, Masters 50, GOLD

Deb Hall, Masters 50, BRONZE

You can find the full results and many more amazing performances below:

Sunday was the last day of the 2023 Canadian National Championships and the Single Mixed Relay races brought more medals and great results for the Alberta athletes! A total of 6 medals were added to the previous medal count of 44. The medal-winning teams were:

Perry/ Borglum, Women/Men, BRONZE

Paradis/ Baergen, Youth Women/Men, SILVER

Hulshof/Fradette, Youth Women/Men, BRONZE

Csonka/Konoff, Senior Girls/Boys, GOLD

Klafki/ Hulshof, Senior Girls/Boys, SILVER

Baegen, Ferguson, Senior Girls/Boys, BRONZE

Overall a great week in Quebec for our Alberta athletes! Congratulations to everyone who competed!!!

The Alberta athletes showed up and performed on day one of the 2023 National Championships!

With 14 podium positions, our athletes had a great start to the competition week!

The athletes that finished on the podium are:

Bjorn Baergen, Youth Men, GOLD

Kase Repp, Senior Boys, GOLD

Luke Hulshof, Senior Boys, SILVER

Dawson Ferguson, Senior Boys, BRONZE

Anna Sellers, Women, GOLD (Alberta member but racing for Sovereign)

Anna Perry, Junior Women, GOLD

Danika Burke, Junior Women, SILVER

Desiree Paradis, Youth Women, SILVER

Flora Csonka, Senior Girls, SILVER

Eric Lemee, Masters 35+, GOLD

Jeannot Desaulniers, Masters 50, SILVER

Trevor Baine, Masters 50, BRONZE

Jacqueline Hutchinson, Masters 50, GOLD

Deb Hall, Masters 50, BRONZE

Special shout out to our Senior Boys, where we had 5 Alberta athletes in the top 5 and 6 in the top 10!!!

Please find the full results below:

The 2024 Alberta Winter Games will be held in Grande Prairie. All qualified athletes will come from the 8 different Alberta zones to race and identify the best athletes in their age groups.

Biathlon Alberta is looking for individuals interested in helping us as Zone Representatives for their zone.

The main task will be to coordinate with the coaches in your zone and the Biathlon Sport Coordinator (our General Manager, Elmar Heger) and help in the lead-up to the Games and zone trials.

If you are interested, please reach out to our 2024 Biathlon Sport Coordinator at elmar@biathlon.ca as soon as possible as we are trying to fill all 8 Zone Representative roles before March 27, 2023!

If you are not 100% sure in which zone you live and which zone you could represent based on the community you are living in, please follow the link below:

Zones by community

Edmonton Nordic Ski Club accepts now applications from qualified candidates to fill the role of the Biathlon Head Coach!

Please see the job posting below for more information:

Biathlon Alberta nominates every year athletes for the Nationals Championships. This year, the athletes will travel to Valcartier (QC), to race for the National Championship titles!

The nomination is based on the 2022-23 nomination criteria (HERE) and the team will be a mix of pre-selected athletes that have represented Alberta on an international stage during the 2022-23 season or at the 2023 Canada Winter Games as well as the best athletes of the 2022-23 Calforex Cup season. All athletes had to be registered for the 2023 National Championships in order to be nominated.

We are looking forward to cheering for our athletes during next week’s National Championships!

The nominated athletes are:

Biathlon Alberta and the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre (BATC) are inviting qualified candidates to apply for the role as the Assistant Coach for the BATC.

Helene Jørgensen leaves the BATC to focus on her academic career.

Biathlon Alberta and the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre (BATC) invite all interested athletes, ages 17-23, to apply for the BATC.

As one of North America’s premier athlete development centre’s, we are proud to look back on a long list of athletes that represented Canada at all major events.

Please click HERE to visit our BATC website if you are interested in joining our program for the 2023-24 season.

The application deadline is April 1, 2023!