Canada’s Kingsbury dethroned as Olympic men’s moguls champion

Canada won its first two medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, but one wasn’t the colour many expected.

Defending Olympic champion and top qualifier Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., was upset by Sweden’s Walter Wallberg in the men’s moguls final.

Kingsbury, who won gold in Pyeongchang in 2018 and silver in Sochi in 2014, finished first in qualifying in China with a score that was more than two points better than his closest competitor.

In Saturday’s final, Wallberg posted a score of 83.23 points on his final run to better Kingsbury’s score of 82.18.

Canada’s other medal Saturday — its first of the Games — came from long-track speed skater Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, who won bronze in the women’s 3,000 metres.

Valerie Maltais of Chicoutimi, Que., was 12th, with Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin 14th.

Women’s hockey: Canada improved to 2-0 in round-robin play with an 11-1 victory over Finland.

Brianne Jenner (Oakville, Ont.) had three goals and an assist for the Canadians, who got four assists from Natalie Spooner (Scarborough, Ont.) and three goals from Sarah Nurse (Hamilton).

Sarah Fillier (Georgetown, Ont.) and Laura Stacey (Kleinburg, Ont.) added two goals apiece and Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, Ont.) had one goal. Saskatoon’s Emily Clark chipped in with one assist.

Canada is to play the Russian team late Sunday.

Mixed doubles curling: The team of John Morris (Canmore, Alta.) and Rachel Homan (Ottawa) had a 4-2 round-robin record after splitting its games Saturday.

The Canadians lost 6-2 to Sweden’s Almida De Val and Oskar Eriksson, then stole five points over the final three ends to beat Vicky Persinger and Christopher Plys of the United States 7-2.

Canada and Great Britain are tied for third in the round-robin standings behind Sweden (5-2) and Italy (6-0).

Morris and Homan are to face the Czech Republic, Australia and Italy on Sunday to complete the round-robin. Semifinals are set for Monday, with medal games slated for Tuesday.

Snowboarding: Laurie Blouin (Quebec City) finished seventh in qualifying in the women’s slopestyle event and moved on to the final.

Jasmine Baird (Georgetown, Ont.) was 15th and Brooke Voigt (Fort McMurray, Alta.) was 22nd in qualifying and didn’t advance to the final.

The men’s slopestyle qualifying runs featuring Regina’s Mark McMorris are slated to start late Saturday.

Short track speed skating: Canada won its semifinal in the mixed team relay, but was disqualified in the four-team final.

Alpine skiing: The third training run for the men’s downhill was cancelled Saturday.

Canadians James Crawford (Toronto), Brodie Seger (North Vancouver) and Broderick Thompson (Whistler, B.C.) are to go for gold Saturday night.

Biathlon: In the mixed team event, the Canadian foursome of Sarah Beaudry (Prince George, B.C.), Emma Lunder (Vernon, B.C.), Christian Gow (Calgary) and Scott Gow (Calgary) finished 14th.

Cross-country skiing: Four Canadians competed in the women’s 7.5 kilometre plus 7.5km skiathlon event.

Cendrine Brown (Saint-Jerome, Que.) was 20th, Katherine Stewart-Jones (Chelsea, Que.) finished 23rd, Dahria Beatty (Whitehorse, Yukon) placed 28th and Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt (Morin Heights, Que.) was 44th.

Luge: Reid Watts (Whistler, B.C.) was 17th after two runs of the men’s event. The final two runs are set for Sunday.

Ski jumping: Abigail Strate (Calgary) finished 23rd in the women’s event.