The last of three SuperTour races held this week at the Telemark Resort in Cable, Wisconsin, resulted in an impressive show of strength, speed, and team depth from the Northern Michigan University ski team. NMU racer Lindsey Weier sped clear of Rossignol's Brooke Baughman, winning the mass-start freestyle 10km race by less than 3 seconds. Weier's NMU teammates were involved in a four-way sprint with Baughman, and swept 3rd, 4th, and 5th places which gave...
Ivan Babikov (Subaru Factory Team) managed to hold off a hard-charging Leif Zimmerman in the 15km mass-start freestyle race which capped off a week of SuperTour competitions at the Telemark Resort in Wisconsin. Babikov's winning time was 34:52.88, just five seconds clear of Zimmerman, who is a member of the US Development Team. At the mid-race time check, it was yesterday's champion of the 10k classic, Thomas Oyberg, who led the field. Zimmerman lurked in...
Thomas Oyberg of UAF won Saturday's 10K Classic cross country ski race at Telemark Resort, ahead of Chad Geise and Erik Wickstrom. PLACE LAST FIRST TIME BACK TEAM 1 OYBERG, Thomas 31:50.4 UAF 2 GIESE, Chad 32:13.7 00:23.3 Factory 3 WICKSTROM, Erik 32:34.2 00:43.8 UAF 4 COOK, Bryan 32:47.0 00:56.6 NMU 5 FREEMAN, Justin 32:49.6 00:59.3 US 6 COOK, Chris 32:51.1 01:00.7 US 7 GREENE, Marshall 32:51.7 01:01.3 Alpina/ 8 ZIMMERMAN, Leif 32:58.6 01:08.2 US...
Tami Kochen of NMU won Saturday's SuperTour race in Cable Wisconsin. The race was a 10K Classic. PLACE LAST FIRST TEAM TIME BACK 1 KOCHEN, Tami NMU 36:27.9 2 CAMENISCH, Karin Team 36:31.2 00:03.3 3 WILLIAMS, Lindsay NMU 36:56.8 00:29.0 4 TURUNEN, Johanna UAF 37:26.1 00:58.2 5 SMYTH, Morgan NMU 37:43.7 01:15.9 6 WEIER, Lindsey NMU 37:49.5 01:21.7 7 WHITCOMB, Kate MWSC 37:55.5 01:27.7 8 OWEN, Kristina MTU 38:28.1 02:00.2 9 STUBER, Maria NMU 38:36.7...
Six athletes, including a Russian and Swiss skier, have been invited to take part in the World Cup based on their performance in the SuperTour so far this season. The leaders of the SuperTour (top-3) after the competitions in Mount Itasca, MN have been personally invited by FIS to take part in all of the World Cup competitions after March 1 this year. These competitions include the famous Holmenkollen marathon, and downtown sprint races in...
Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Jens Arne Svartedal cruised to his first Norwegian championship sprint gold in the classic sprint on Friday. He admitted after the race that it went easier than he had expected. Svartedal was clearly ahead of Borre Naess and Tor Arne Hetland.
Source: Langrenn.com Marit Bjorgen won her first ever Norwegian championship gold on Friday (Yes, that’s right). She is despite the victory happy that the sprint course at Worlds is tougher than what was used at Lillehammer. Marit Bjorgen was never threatened and dominated the Norwegian classic sprint championship on Friday. 18-year old Astrid Jacobsen was the big surprise of the day and captured silver ahead of national team skier Ella Gjomle
David Stewart Enters the Final 200m On the Common Vermont resident and Subaru Factory Team racer David Stewart was this year's overall winner in the men's 50k race. Right from the starting bell, Stewart pushed the pace hard up the first several kilometers of climbing, only to find out from other racers in the lead group that the cash bonus awarded in past years to the first racer to reach the top of Barr Hill...
Source: Langrenn.com The former Olympic cheater Johann Muhlegg is on his way back to ski racing at “full speedâ€. He raced a race in Austria last weekend. The race was in Tirol and was a skate race over 50+ kilometers and is a part of the ‘Tirol Trophyâ€. Muhlegg won by less than one second to Stephan Zirngibl from Germany. Muhlegg represented Spain when he was caught for doping, but is now racing for Germany....
Source: Langrenn.com Veteran national team skier Hilde G. Pedersen crushed a strong field that included last weekend’s World Cup pursuit winner Kristin Stormer Steira and won by 19 seconds in the Norwegian 10-kilometer freestyle championship on Thursday. She left no doubt that she needs to be counted on as medal candidate at the upcoming Oberstdorf Worlds that starts in less than three weeks. World Cup leader Marit Bjorgen did not race. Pedersen (40) was not...
Source: Langrenn.com Biathlon skier Lars Berger was by many considered a big favorite to win the Norwegian 15-kilometer championship on Thursday. He started very fast and built a lead, but couldn’t hold on to the end.
Source: Langrenn.com Tore Ruud Hofstad won his first Norwegian National Championship by winning the 15-kilometer freestyle event on Thursday, but it wasn’t a perfect race. Biathlon skier Lars Berger was 11 seconds ahead of Tore Ruud Hofstad after 1.8 kilometer in the Norwegian 15-kilometer freestyle championship on Thursday but could not hold on to the lead and ended up third to Ruud Hofstad (first) and Jan Egil Andresen (second). I’m 25-years old and it was...
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Source: Langrenn.com The Marcialonga is ready to start next Sunday, 30th of January. Everything is going on as planned and the most famous cross country marathon in Italy, and one of the best-loved in the World, offers again the traditional show of the challenge between Scandinavia and the other Countries of the World, Italy included of course. The conditions of the snow are perfect, and for the 4200 skiers it will be a new fantastic...
Cross Country Alaska held its second weekend of Besh Cup racing on Jan 22 & 23 in Soldotna, Alaska on the Tsalteshi Trail system. The Besh Cup series is used to determine the Alaska Junior National team. On Saturday the racers did a classic sprint. All the racers did a 1K preliminary race in the moring and then the top racers went head-to-head in the afternoon heats. There were action-packed heats in the J4, J3,...
The North American ski marathon season is underway, with two well-known events taking place last weekend, and another two coming up this weekend. Last weekend it was the Pepsi Challenge in Biwabik, Minnesota and the Great Nordeen in Bend, Oregon. This weekend it is the Subaru Noquemanon in Michigan and the Craftsbury Marathon in Vermont. PEPSI CHALLENGE At the Pepsi Challenge, Nathan Shultz and Irene Eder overcame soft snow conditions to win by over a...
Update from Nove Mesto The series continues — at least one German skier among the Top 3 in a long-distance World Cup race. Tobias Angerer showed with his 3rd place behind Vincent Vittoz and Christian Hoffmann that he is a serious contender in skate races. Sommerfeldt shows great consistency this season and finished 5th again. Teichmann never got going on the hard, but short course and ended up 24th, behind a new recruit in the...
Last weekend's Western JO qualifier races at the Soldier Hollow, Utah Olympic courses brought together the best junior skiers from the Rocky Mountain, Intermountain and Far West divisions. It was some of the highest level junior racing ever seen in the West. The weather was perfect with medium cold sunny mornings and pleasantly warm in the thirties during the day. A record turnout of skiers and every single racer skied their hardest on some very tough and challenging courses. Enjoy the...
Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian team for the individual classic sprint at the upcoming Worlds in Oberstdorf, Germany is one of the toughest one to make. Classic sprint is very popular among Norwegian skiers and the level is very high. Everyone that makes the team feel that they have a shot at the podium. Trond Iversen won last weekend’s classic sprint in the continental cup race in Oberstdorf and probably made the team. Iversen won ahead...