The final round of 2024 Canada Cup downhill racing returned to Mount Washington for the Stevie Smith Memorial DH. Always a difficult track, the Stevie Smith DH added some variable weather over the weekend to keep racers on their toes. The sun was out for finals, and the final DH podiums of the year as new Canada Cup champs were crowned on Vancouver Island.
Henry Sherry floats out of the same corner
While Seth Sherlock absolutely launched out of it, and onto the podium in third.
Elite men and women
In a wildly close elite men’s race, Patrick Laffey rebounded from a rough seeding run to take the final Canada Cup win of 2024. His 3:25.44 beat out Henry Sherry by a razor-thin 0.30 seconds. Seth Sherlock also finished within a second of the win, 0.67 seconds back of Laffey after toughing out the brutal Monster Mile course. Gabe Neuron and Ethan Donohoe round out the extended podium.
In the elite women’s race, past Canada Cup champ Ainhoa Ijurko took a commanding win at the Steve Smith Memorial race. She finished 14.78 seconds up on Kaylee Sherlock in second place with Canada Cup leader coming into the final round, Bailey Goldstone finishing in third.
Maximiliano Caro Labbe takes the junior men’s win
Jake Polito finishes just behind in second place
Emily Wilson flew to second in the junior women’s race
Junior Men and Women
In the junior men’s race, Maximiliano Caro Labbe just edges out Outlaw United’s Jake Polito for the win. Jonah Rickard takes the final podium spot in third.
Mhairi Smart of Whistler, B.C. wins the junior women’s race at Mount Washington. Emily Wilson and Kate Brenan round out the junior women’s podium at the final Canada Cup of the year.
Ryder Wilson arrived at Mount Washington with the Canada Cup leaders jersey and added another win to his impressive season
Tayte Proulx-Royds flew to the fastest women’s time on Mount Washington Sunday
Julian Moutinho just missed the junior men’s podium by less than half of a second
Under-17 and under-15
Ryder Wilson set the fourth fastest men’s time of the day, with only the three fastest elite men beating his time of 3:27.62. That gave Wilson a massive 8.45-second winning margin and, as he was already leading the Canada Cup series, clinched the season title. Jack McCredie and Mateo Quist round out the under-17 men’s podium at the Stevie Smith Memorial DH.
Tayte Proulx-Royds did one better in the…
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