Beau Thompson took part in the 2009 Junior World Championships in Canmore and was 59th of the individual, 67th of the sprint and 15th in the relay race with Matt Neumann , Stuart Lodge and Joel Pacas in front of his home crowd . In the same place he started in the junior competitions of the Canadian Championships in 2010 and won the titles in the individual and the sprint, was runner-up behind Neumann in the pursuit race and with Tana Chesham and Scott Gow as Alberta's first representative third in the mixed relay competition. For men in the performance area, Thompson has been competing since the 2010/11 season . In his very first race in the Biathlon NorAm Cup he was second behind Robin Clegg and ahead of Jon Skinstad in a sprint in Canmore, and in the pursuit race based on it he came in third after Joel Pacas slipped between him and Clegg. In Jericho , too , he was third in a pursuit race. At the Canadian Championships in Charlo in 2011 , he won the gold medal in the mixed relay race with Zina Kocher and Nathan Smith .