Day 5 of the Arctic Winter Games: medals, pins and standups

As the Arctic Winter Games near their end, athletes are moving into the final stretch of the competitions that will determine the winners of most ulu-shaped medals.

Nunavut’s under-19 female hockey team that had high hopes for gold after a three-game winning streak lost Thursday 3-1 in its semifinal game against Alaska.

Now the team is competing for bronze Friday in a matchup against Yukon at 8 a.m MT (11 a.m. ET).

Other Nunavut athletes will compete for medals Friday, including the under-15 male hockey team, which is going for gold against Team Yukon at 2 p.m. MT (5 p.m. ET).

Three other Nunavut teams will face off against the Northwest Territories for bronze Friday: under-18 male hockey at 7 p.m. MT (10 p.m. ET); under-18 female futsal at 4:45 MT (7:45 p.m. ET); and male volleyball at 10 p.m. MT (1 a.m. ET).

Other competitions Friday include:

• Team Nunavut vs. Team Alaska in female volleyball at 12 p.m. MT (3 p.m. ET)
• Team Nunavut vs. Team Alaska in under-18 male futsal at 3:30 MT (6:30 p.m. ET)
• Team Nunavut vs. Team Yukon in female basketball at 12:30 p.m. MT (3:30 p.m. ET)
• Team Nunavut vs. Team Greenland in under-18 mixed badminton at 9:15 a.m. MT (12:15 p.m. ET)

Along with the competitions the Games, there is plenty of non-sport action from pin-trading, giveaways and CBC news reporter standups from the Canada Games Centre.

As of Friday morning, Nunavut is in sixth place among the eight regions competing, with 27 medals, including four gold, 13 silver and 10 bronze. Nunavik is in eighth place with one gold medal, four silvers and three bronze medals. Alaska leads with 172 medals, including 58 golds.

The Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse opened Sunday and run until Saturday.

They brought together approximately 2,000 athletes from eight circumpolar regions Nunavut, Nunavik, Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, Greenland and the Sápmi region of Scandinavia.