James Southam of Eagle River, Alaska was 12th in Sunday’s Engadin, FIS marathon World Cup race. Southam was 11 seconds behind the winner, Austria’s Mikhail Botvinov. Italians Marco Cattaneo and Roberto De Zolt was second and third, one second behind the winner. Other Americans: Zack Simons, 62nd, 5.47 out A trio of American junior girls also did very well in the women's race, as they swept the podium in the junior division. Taz Mannix was...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of timesâ€. For some, today was fantastic, but for quite a few it was essentially a day of survival and racing for personal satisfaction. This is usually the case in long races to some degree; the field spreads out and many are left fighting an inner-battle with themselves for many long and lonely kilometres until either they pull to the side of the trail and...
Sestriere, Italy — It was a golden day for the U.S. Nordic Ski Team at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy. Steve Cook (Salt Lake City, Utah) ended a 14-year gold medal drought, racing to first place in the men’s standing 5K. It was the first gold medal for the U.S. Nordic Ski team since the 1992 Paralympic Winter Games in Albertville, France and the fourth gold medal in the U.S. Paralympic cross-country...
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – The University of Colorado is back on top of the collegiate skiing world, as after another dominant Nordic performance on Saturday, the Buffaloes cruised to the fourth largest margin of victory in history in claiming the 53rd annual NCAA Championship. Colorado won its first national championship since 1999 and the school's 16th NCAA title in the sport. Overall, it's the 17th national ski championship for the school counting the 1982 AIAW one...
The 27th Annual Yellowstone Rendezvous Race was run on a cold but beautiful day here in West Yellowstone, Montana. Close to 650 skiers raced on a day that started out with temperatures between 15 and 20 below zero. That meant crystal clear skies and gorgeous views from the top of Deja View but slow snow underfoot. Temperatures rose slowly over the course of the race but were never much higher than 20 degrees. As for...
Team New England had been the strongest team all week, and they showed it again on Saturday by winning four of the six relay races on the last day of the 2006 Junior Nationals. The two relay races that New England didn't win, they came in second. New England won every day of races this week to wrap up their third consecutive Alaska Cup trophy, given to the top region at Junior Nationals. New England...
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Sweden's Anders Soedergren achieved the first World Cup win of his career at age 28 when he won today's infamous Holmenkollen 50km in Oslo, Norway. Soedergren, who was fifth in the same race last season and second in the Oberstdorf pursuit this past December, finished today's grueling course in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 42.5 seconds; 23 seconds ahead of second-placed Giorgio Di Centa of Italy. An astounding performance from Tom Reichelt, a relative unknown...
The 29-year-old Julija Tchepalova won the individual World Cup race over 30 km in free technique in a time of 1:18:44.1. The athlete from Russia finished 17,2 seconds clearly ahead of the Czech Katerina Neumannova. Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle from Germany took the third place 1:12.9 minute behind the winner. Neumannova started very fast on the course that consisted of two laps (12,5 km and 16,7 km) but could not keep her pace and lost her lead...
Spring Series 2006, County style! Aroostook County, The Crown of Maine or The County; what ever you call it, drive on Route 1 North until it ends…then keep going for about an hour. You’ll get here, I promise. It might take a few days, but you can’t miss it. You can also fly. There is tons of snow (with more in the forecast) and the skiing is great. Even if the snow decides to start...
. Christine Groulx Drew Goldsack – 2nd in Open Men Graham Nishikawa Phil Widmer – dominant win Sarah Daitch
The sprint event of the Canadian Nationals had been the “talk of the town†for quite a while thanks to its downtown location and carefully engineered course. Careful engineering in this day and age can look after everything but the weather and the weather proved to be an important aspect of the day. While the course was reasonably firm in the morning, by the time the finals went at 4pm the slush was deep. In...
Friday was the last individual race of the 2006 Junior Nationals. New England had a commanding lead in the overall Alaska Cup competition after the first two races, and they looked to have at least maintained their lead after today's race. Alaska had a strong showing in the boys J2 5K race, with 4 of the top five skiers. Alaskan Lex Treinen was the winner, ahead of Scott Lacy of Rocky Mountain. The next three...
OSLO (March 9) – Two-time Olympian Pete Vordenberg was named Thursday night as the new U.S. cross country head coach, replacing Trond Nystad, who is resigning effective at the end of this Olympic season, U.S. Nordic Director Luke Bodensteiner said. At the same time, Bodensteiner – who was in Oslo for the traditional Holmenkollen Ski Festival and to oversee announcing the changes – said Vidar Loefshus, another Norwegian native and the first sprint coach hired...
Presque Isle, ME — The Nordic Heritage Ski Club is proud to announce that the 2006 International Spring Series is just 10 days away. We have snow, we have prize money, we have top racers coming, and a great social calendar!! We have 3 SuperTour events, a National Championships Team Sprint and the 30/50km National Championship all happening in Northern Maine. Here are some pictures from the Nordic Heritage Ski Center during the recent Biathlon...
Denver University (DU) and the University of Colorado (CU) used strong performances by their cross country skiers to move into first and second place in the team competition at the 2006 NCAA Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colorado on Thursday. Denver University men's cross country team placed all three of its skiers in the top ten, led by John Stene who won the race by 13 seconds over Marius Korthauer of University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)....
Source: Unni Odegard, Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Junior skier Petter Northug won his first World Cup victory in Falun, Sweden on Wednesday and answered to not being selected to race in the Olympics.
It was an all-Norwegian men's final in today's classic sprint held in downtown Drammen, Norway where the course was surrounded by tens of thousands of loudly cheering Norwegian fans. Boerre Naess led the prelim with a smoking time of 2:41.85, which turned out to be by far the fastest of the day including times from all of the heats. An unbelievable 10 out of the top 12 qualifiers were Norwegians. Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset. Photo by Stian...
The giant Slovenian Petra Majdic made good use of her long legs on the final uphill stretch to win today's classic sprint in Drammen, Norway in front of tens of thousands of loud Norwegian fans. Canadian Beckie Scott, coming off of a third place in yesterday's pursuit race in Sweden and 10th in the freestyle sprint the day before, was able to win both of her heats leading up to the final where she faced...
A great collection of photos from Jon Nelson. Adam Kates leading early Christopher Werrell Brent McMurtry Daria Gaiazova winner of Womens 7.5 km skate Chris Butler