Cultus Lake/Calgary (Alpine Canada) – At Tuesday’s (Dec 16) FIS Ski Cross World Cup night race in Arosa (SUI),Canada’s Reece Howden (Chilliwack/Cultus Lake, BC) became the all-time leader in ski cross race wins passing Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (FRA) with 19 wins.
Howden was dominant on the day winning each of the heats for his first win of the season and the 31st podium of his career.
“That’s 19 right?!” said a smiling Howden. “Today’s race was unreal. A huge shout out to Jean-Frédéric Chapuis setting an amazing benchmark and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to compete with him and to take this mark and to push it higher Felt like this has been hanging over my head for a couple of weeks now and amazing to get it done.”
“There a lot of the guys out here who are figuring out the start and have a lot of speed. I just tried to focus on myself, to minimize mistakes and it all worked out. I really like the fight at the start and then really explode on the back half of the course. Excited about this team, the guys are firing and the women will get it going in Innichen and stocked for the rest of the season.”
Jared Schmidt (Ottawa, ON) finished eight today, while Gavin Rowell (Prince George, BC) was 14th, Nicholas Katrusiak 16th, Nick Carson Cook (Edmonton, AB) 20th and Kris Mahler (Canmore, AB) came in 26th.
On the women’s side, Courtney Hoffos (Windermere, BC) placed 8th, and Hannah Schmidt (Ottawa, ON) finished in 16th place.
