FOG BLOG BEIJING PARALYMPICS LOG: CANADA WINS A WHOPPING 9 GOLD MEDALS, 10 SILVER AND 6 BRONZE 25 T

Paralympic wake-up call: Canada grabs 5 medals, secures another in Para ice hockey...Four Canadian athletes and Canada's wheelchair curling team added more hardware to the country's Beijing Paralympics medal haul between Thursday night and Friday morning.

Mollie Jepsen, Mark Arendz, Brittany Hudak, Tyler Turner and the Mark Ideson-led curling rink pushed Team Canada's medal count to 21 ahead of the final weekend.

And another prize is already secured, as the Canadian men's Para ice hockey team breezed past South Korea 11-0 to qualify for the tournament's final.

Para alpine skier Jepsen, 22, finished second in the the women's standing giant slalom with a time of two minutes 0.95 seconds to improve on her PyeongChang 2018 bronze in the same event.

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The West Vancouver, B.C., native posted the third best time in the first run, moving into the top position after finishing her second attempt with only two other skiers to go.

When Sweden's Ebba Aarsjoe crashed out on her second run, Jepsen's worst-case-scenario improved from bronze to silver. And that's what ended up happening after Zhang Mengqiu of China posted the best time in the second run — just as she did in her first go — to strike gold.

It was Jepsen who captured Canada's first Beijing Paralympics gold medal last Friday, in the women's standing downhill event........Hartsville, P.E.I., native Arendz added to his medal collection with a men's standing 12.5-kilometre biathlon silver.

The 32-year-old's time of 40:13 was enough for him to add an 11th career medal over four Paralympic Games.

Arendz went six for six in medals at PyeongChang 2018, setting a Canadian record for most medals in a single Winter Paralympics.

He now has a medal of each colour in Beijing after capturing the men's 6km standing biathlon sprint bronze last Friday and winning the men's standing 10km biathlon event on Tuesday.