Two Bronze Medals to Canada
Norway And Italy Takes Sprint Relay Gold At U-23 Worlds
FasterSkier · February 13, 2004
 and only 35% humidity made waxing easy and skiing fun. Each skier on the two person teams skis (alternating) three times in a sprint relay. At this event it was 3 x 1.3 kilometer</p></div><div class=)
 took the victory in an incredible exciting battle against Italy and Canada. It was never more than ten meters that separate those three teams for the entire race.</p><p>Switzerland, Spain and a “bunch†of other teams were skiing only 20-40 meters behind the leaders making it impossible for the leading trio to “even think about slowing downâ€.</p><p>Naess on the Norwegian Team was number three out of the stadium on the last leg, but skied side by side with Canada’s Drew Goldsack up the first uphill. Naess made a move up the steep uphill with 600 meters too go and captured the lead gliding down toward the stadium. Naess which recently placed 5th(won the B- final) in the Norwegian sprint Championship “dominated†the last 200 meters and won by 2 seconds.</p></div><div class=)
Oyestein Sobjorg, the other skier on the Norwegian team placed 7th in their pursuit Championship a few weeks ago. The quality of the skiers at this championship is very high.
Italy got ahead of Canada for second. Aggressive and impressive skiing by the Canadians.
 stayed together for the first three legs of the in the women’s race. At this point the Italian team of Stephanie Santer and Christina Kelder gradually skied away while Switzerland and Canada were fighting for second. Canada were slightly ahead of the Swiss team with 600 meters to go but the Swiss girl were able to close the gap at pass the Canadian team for silver on the last 200 meters. The US first team of Nicole DeYong and Kikkan Randall came in 6th place, 1.04 behind the winner but only 20 seconds behind Norway and 9 seconds behind Germany</p></div></div></div><div class=)