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FAIRBANKS – Team Yukon's contingent of 260 athletes took home 85 ulus from the Arctic Winter Games.

Not all results are posted on the tournament's website, but the final standings will give the territory 22 gold, 25 silver and 38 bronze medals.

The total marks a tumble from the previous tournament, which Whitehorse hosted in 2012. There, Team Yukon secured 122 medals and finished second overall.

Host Alaska was once again the top medal winners, snaring a whopping 190 medals, including 67 gold. Yamal, Russia finished second with 134 medals, while Alberta North (125) and N.W.T. (86) placed third and fourth.

The Yukon secured three golds, eight silver and 14 bronze medals over the final two days of competition.

In team competition, the junior female soccer team defended its 2012 victory with a 5-1 win over N.W.T.

Individually, juvenile snowboarder Esa Suominen picked up a gold medal in the team competition for his performance over the week. Snowshoer Kieran Halliday also picked up his 10th career gold ulu in the 10-km cross-country junior male event.

The junior male volleyball team earned a team silver, while both the juvenile mixed biathlon snowshoe 3x2-km relay team and juvenile male speedskating 2,000-m relay team earned silver ulus.

Individually, Fayne O'Donovan picked up a silver as all-around junior female in Arctic Sports, Dene Games athlete Brittney Brown took silver for all-around junior female, juvenile speedskater Michael Ritchie was runner-up in the 1,000-m race, and snowboarders Adam Waddington (junior male) and Haylie Grant (juvenile female) each finished second in the team competition.

Meanwhile, the alpine skiing team, junior male basketball team, male midget hockey team, and junior male soccer team each collected bronze ulus as competition wound down.

Three Yukon relay teams also took third place – the 3x3-km juvenile and 3x4.5-km junior mixed biathlon ski teams, and the 3x3-km freestyle midget female cross-country ski team.

The final bronze medals were won by Dene Games athlete Anthony Primozic (all-around male), Arctic Sports junior Reena Coyne (sledge jump), juvenile snowboarder Reanna Â鶹ÉçÇøome (team competition), juvenile speedskater Micah Taggart-Cox (1,000-m), junior speedskater Shea Hoffman (1,500-m), juvenile snowshoer Alice Frost-Hanberg (5-km cross country), and junior male wrestler Ryan Thompson in Inuit wrestling's 82-kg category.