Canada’s Mollie Jepsen, Mark Arendz and Brittany Hudak earned more medals at the Beijing Paralympics on Friday.
Jepsen, a 22-year-old West Vancouver, B.C., native, posted a combined time of two minutes 0.95 seconds to take silver in the women’s standing giant slalom for her second podium appearance.
Jepsen was 5.83 seconds slower than Zhang Mengqiu of China, who struck gold. Andrea Rothfuss of Germany claimed bronze with a time of 2:01.91.
Medal hopeful Ebba Aarsjoe of Sweden, who had posted the second-best time in the first run, crashed out in her second go.
Mollie makes it HAPPEN 🇨🇦<br><br>Mollie Jepsen sets the pace in the women’s standing giant
