2007 February

Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country presented by Rauch at Changchun (CHN) on February 16th, 2007 Katerina Neumannova (CZE) and the World Cup leader Tobias Angerer (GER) won the last race before the World Championships in Sapporo, the Individual competition over 10 km (ladies) and 15 km (men) in free technique in Changchun, China. The favourite Katerina Neumannova could hold the expectations and took the victory clearly 1:08.5 minute ahead of the French Karine Philippot ....

Katerina Neumannova (CZE) and the World Cup leader Tobias Angerer (GER) won the last race before the World Championships in Sapporo, the Individual competition over 10 km (ladies) and 15 km (men) in free technique in Changchun, China. The favourite Katerina Neumannova held the expectations and took the victory clearly 1:08.5 minute ahead of the French Karine Philippot . On third place finished Svetlana Malahova (KAZ) 1: 30.4 minute behind the winner. Surprisingly the fourth...

Kris Freeman finished 10th in a World Cup 15K skate race in Changchun, China on Friday. Freeman was one minute and ten seconds behind winner Tobias Angerer of Germany. Frenchmen Vincent Vittoz and Emmanuel Jonnier were second and third. It was a small field for a World Cup race, but Freeman was surrounded by big names, both just ahead and behind him, on the results. Freeman was the lone North American in today's races. In...

The 20-year-old Evgenia Shapovalova (RUS) and the Norwegian sprinter Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) took the victory in today’s classic style Sprint in Changchun (CHN), where today for the second time in the history of the FIS World Cup Cross-Country a World Cup competition took place. Evgenia Shapovalova took her first World Cup victory ever under bright sunny skies in Changchun (CHN), ahead of her team-mate Natalia Matveeva and the Norwegian Guro Strom Solli. On fourth...

In Wednesday's World Cup sprint race in Changchun, China, Kikkan Randall was 4th in qualifying and ended up 7th overall. After great showings in the qualifying round, the US Team men were not able to advance beyond the first round in the elimination heats. In qualifying, Andy Newell finished eighth, while Torin Koos finished 12th. But both were eliminated in their quarterfinal heat. Newell just barely missed moving on, finishing third in his heat. He...

A snowstorm has created problems for World Cup skiers ahead of Thursdays sprint races in Changchun, China. Norwegian skistars Hjelmeset and Svartedal have spent more than 30 hours at the Beijing airport.

Swedish skier Thobias Fredriksson is not interested in a reconciliation meeting with Petter Northug following heated exchange after Northug’s takedown of Fredriksson in recent World Cup sprint finale, reports Norwegian newspaper VG. See VG story with photo of the crash at http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=152139 The Norwegian men’s head coach Morten Aa Djupvik tried to initiate a meeting between Northug and Fredriksson in order to “move on”, but the Swedish skier was not interested in such a meeting....