Two-time Olympians Zina Kocher of Red Deer and Jean-Philipe Le Guellec hooked up with Megan Imrie and Brendan Green to finish sixth in a World Cup biathlon mixed team relay on Sunday in Hochfilzen, Austria.
It was the best finish ever for the Canadian team, which covered the 2x6, 2x7.5-kilometre course in 1:14.47.9.
It has been a fun start to the World Cup season for Canada’s biathlon squad who have all enjoyed personal-best performances.
Kocher, the only Canadian biathlete to have hopped onto the World Cup podium in the last two decades, found her way back into the top 15.
• Lyndon Rush of Sylvan Lake and his crew of Jesse Lumsden, Cody Sorensen and Neville Wright placed 20th in a four-man World Cup bobsleigh even in Winterberg, Germany on Sunday.
Rush, who was the first Canadian to medal in the Olympic four-man race in more than four decades when he grabbed the bronze at the 2010 Games, rolled his Canada 2 sled on corner nine before it flipped back onto its runners three turns later to finish the race.
The Canadian foursome posted a two-run time of 1:53.37.