Rovaniemi, FIN-Canada’s Perianne Jones bounced back after a difficult opening day earlier this week at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Rovaniemi, Finland to finish 15th in the women’s sprint competition on Wednesday. “This was a much better result for me, although my goal was to finish a little higher in the standings,” said Jones of Almonte, Ont., who is making her third trip to the elite junior event on the cross-country ski calendar....
It has been the Team Norway doing most of the celebrating in the Junior World Ski Championships so far. It was a great day for Norway once again on Wednesday as Even Sletten took gold in the Cross Country sprint competition. Thus, the Norwegians have won all the five gold medals in these games. In the final stretch of 920 meter track, Sletten was able to hold off teammate Petter Northug, who finished second. Emil...
The March issue This month we again include two articles: 1. Physical Training for your health and quality of life – a summary of the main “modern†concepts for endurance and strength training, also applied to all levels of athletes and active people. We borrowed this article from our friends at the University of Trondheim, Norway. Research professors Helgerud and Hoff are heavily involved in testing and training of high level athletes (including CC skiers,...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen Here are some comments from the Junior World’s pursuit champions. Petter Northug Jr. is Norway’s undisputed champion in the oldest junior class. During the junior Norwegian Championships he won every race there was and at Junior Worlds he has started in much the same fashion by winning the pursuit. In an earlier interview he stated that if he managed to hang with the leaders till the skating portion there...
Source: Atomic Press Release ATOMIC MARATHON TEAM’S STANISLAV REZAC TAKES OVERALL TITLE FOR WORLD LOPPET SERIES “I pushed the team pretty hard this fall and summer,†commented Atomic’s race director, Peter Juric. “Sometimes maybe I was too tough with the men and women on the team. They would start whining like the little fat boys who eat too much chocolate and are afraid to ski fast. So I would raise my voice and threaten them...
Dave Chamberlain, Tim Weston, and biathlete Tim Burke among confirmed participants!
RACE CONDITION REPORT: Colorado International Spring Series March 26-April 2, 2005 Tuesday, March 22, 2005: With four days to go until the first race, snow conditions for second edition of Colorado International Spring Series (CISS) are excellent. During the past six days nearly 12 inches of snow have fallen at the twin race venues of Devil's Thumb Ranch and Snow Mountain Ranch. Overnight low tempatures are dipping into the teens, creating solid skate lanes and...
-Norwegians, Russians dominate podium- Rovaniemi, FIN-Canada’s Perianne Jones ignited her junior cross-country skiing world championships campaign with a top-30 finish in the women’s 10-kilometre pursuit in Rovaniemi, Finland on Monday. Jones, of Almonte, Ont., who is Canada’s reigning junior women’s cross-country ski champion, posted a time of 31 minutes 28.3 seconds, just over two minutes off the leading pace. “This is a great way to start the junior world championships,” said the 20-year-old. “I started...
By Eli Brown, Fischer USA Nordic Race Service Director This past weekend was a great one for Fischer both internationally and domestically. With the final World Cup races of the season in Falun, Sweden both individual race champions and Overall World Cup champions were to be crowned. In Saturdays individual pursuit race, Fischer athlete Eugeni Dementiev of Russia won the mass sprint to capture his first world cup victory. Further back in the lead pack,...
This is a follow up to the recent artice about three Oregon skiers at the Sapporo Marathon. After a suffering throught the toughest world loppet race, we visited the Okurayama jumping hill, site of the 1972 Olympics. This modern facility will host the 2007 Nordic World Championships. The sprint races will take place inside the Sapporo dome, which seats some 40,000! Following a visit to the Sapporo brewery, we spent a few days the at...
Photos from Sunday's California Gold Rush. Lars Flora won the men's race, ahead of Ivan Babikov and Andrew Johnson. Abby Larson won the women's race, ahead of Sarah Konrad and Kristina Strandberg. All photos taken by, and property of, Sharbel Dussault. To see more Gold Rush pictures, go to: 50K start Andrew Johnson leads Lars Flora and Erling Christiansen down a hill Brooke Baughman leads Abby Larson Ivan Babikov leads Flora and Johnson up a...
By Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Petter Northug jr sprinted in to gold in Monday’s 20-k pursuit at Junior Worlds in Rovaniemi. Photo: Stian Hœgland Petter Northug of Norway won the men’s 20-k pursuit 1.6 seconds ahead of Toni Naervainen of Finland with Mickail Devjatiarov of Russia in third. Top North American was Canadian Christopher Butler in 33. North American Men: 33. Christopher Butler CAN 39. Ben True USA 46. Brent McMurtry CAN 47....