Kris Freeman was 24 seconds ahead of Carl Swenson in a 15-kilometer skate time-trial at Soldier Hollow on Tuesday. Dave Chamberlain was third.
Dry roads, 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit and five laps on the Soldier Hollow , Utah rollerski course (plus the biathlon loop) at the 2002 Olympic stadium was on the program for the US Ski Team and several other skiers on Tuesday October 18.
Freeman skied a very fast first lap and put an early gap on everyone including second place finisher Carl Swenson. After that he skied four very consistent laps and gradually improved his lead.
Swenson opened a little more conservative and skied his two fastest laps on lap four and five. David Chamberlain skied a solid race and ended up third, 1 minute and 24 seconds behind Freeman.
Wendy Wagner was the fastest women (small field) in 13.10 in the two lap women’s race.
Results by www.teamtoday.org:
USST Skate Time Trial
Oct 18th, 2005
2 loops
1. Wendy Wagner Atomic 652, 714 13:10
2. Laurie Humbert Rossi 802, 819 16:21
5 loops
1. Kris Freeman USST 638, 652, 651, 658, 657 34:16
2. Carl Swenson USST 650, 702, 700, 654, 654 34:40
3. Dave Chamberlain Atomic 658, 702, 712, 715, 713 35:40
4. Justin Freeman 708, 717, 711, 734, 730 36:38
5. Chad Geise Subaru 713, 718, 728, 721, 718 36:48
6. Leif Zimmermann Alp/Mad BSF 753, 739, 803, 8??, 7?? 39:46
Times from previous time trials:
From: September 30, 2003
2 loops
Wendy Wagner 6:56 (652) 13:48
4 loops
Kris Freeman 6:31 (650) 13:20 (658) 20:18 (658) 27:14
Carl Swenson 7:10 (739) 14:49 (717) 22:07 (722) 29:25
J. Freeman 7:02 (725) 14:27 (740) 22:10 (746) 29:56
From: October 2004
2 loops
Wendy Wagner 14:21 (7:06) (7:15)
4 loops
Kris Freeman 27:24 (6:35) (7:04) (7:03) (6:50)
Leif Zimmerman 31:25 (7:44) (7:00) (7:58) (7:43)
