Paralympian Medallist Hudak Adds March Sask Sport Athlete Honour

By Les Lazaruk Apr 11, 2022 | 2:49 PM

Two bronze medals at the 2022 Beijing Paralympics were enough to give Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak the March Sask Sport Athlete-of-the-Month Award.

Hudak was third in the women’s standing 15-kilometre cross country and standing 12-and-a-half kilometre biathlon events. The three-time Paralympian also competed in four other events in Beijing. Following is the news release from Sask Sport…..

Two Bronze Medals earns Brittany Hudak March Athlete of the Month

April 11, 2022

After competing in six events in nine days and earning a pair of bronze medals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics, Prince Albert’s Brittany Hudak has been named the Sask Sport Athlete of the Month for March.

Hudak raced to a third-place finish in the women’s standing 15-kilometre cross country event with a time of 49 minutes and 27.8 seconds to win her first bronze of the Paralympics. Her second bronze medal came in the women’s standing 12.5-km biathlon racewith a time of 49:01.

In addition to the podium visits, Hudak finished in the top ten in the six-km and 10-km women’s standing biathlon events and was seventh across the finish line in the 10-km cross country race. On the final day of Paralympic Games, she teamed up Brian McKeever in the 4×2.5-km Nordic relay. The duo skied to a sixth-place finish.

The games capped off a successful racing season for Hudak. In December, she won several medals at the Para Nordic Skiing World Cup stop held in Canmore Alberta, where she lives and trains.

Hudak is a three-time Paralympian. She won a bronze medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics.

Hudak was nominated by SASKI Skiing for Disabled. She was the lone nominee in March.