As of one week ago, neither Hannah nor Jared Schmidt had ever won gold on the ski cross World Cup circuit.
But that all changed on Tuesday in Arosa, Switzerland, where the Ottawa siblings each captured the top spot in their respective races.
Hannah Schmidt, 29, earned her victory by escaping a wild final race contested in the rain. The three other competitors — Canada’s Marielle Thompson, France’s Marielle Berger Sabbatel and Austria’s Christina Foedermayr — all collided on one of the first turns of the course, taking each other out in the process.
That cleared the path for Schmidt to cruise to her
