Brighton’s Hallie Clarke is set to make her Olympic debut next month at the Milan Cortina Games as part of the Canadian skeleton team.
The 21-year-old is one of three athletes named to Canada’s Olympic skeleton team as announced Wednesday by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Clarke won the women’s skeleton world championship in 2024, making her the sport’s youngest world champion ever at 19 years old.
She followed that up with a gold medal at the 2025 world junior championships and is the first athlete to ever hold both the senior and junior ISBF World Championship titles at the same time.
While she started out as figure skater, Clarke took up skeleton age 14 and began competing the next year.
Clarke will be joined in Italy by veteran Jane Channell of North Vancouver, B.C. who will be competing in her third
straight Olympics.
Channell’s best Olympic result was a 10th-place finish at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Josip Brusic of Okotoks, Alta., is the lone male on the skeleton team.
The skeleton competition at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, runs from Feb. 12-15.
Canada hasn’t won an Olympic skeleton medal since Jon Montgomery’s memorable gold in Whistler, B.C., at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
(With files from the Canadian Press)
