Most Nordic World Champions Win on Swix Triac Poles

The Winning Margin at the 2011 FIS World Ski Championship in Holmenkollen 8 out of 10 Individual Gold Medals, 19 out of 30 Total Gold Medals and 51 out of 90 Total Medals were won on Triac Poles.

FIS nordic world ski championships, cross-country, individual sprint, Oslo (NOR)

Norway’s Therese Johaug at the 2011 World Championships in Oslo, Norway. There in Holmenkollen, she won 30 k freestyle mass start by 44 seconds over teammate Marit Bjørgen. Johaug was even more dominant on Sunday’s World Cup 30 k skate at Holmenkollen, beating Poland’s Justyna Kowalczyk by 46.6 seconds. (Photo: Fischer/Nordic Focus)

FIS nordic world ski championships, cross-country, medals, Oslo (NOR)

Like Petter Northug, Marit Bjoergen won this year’s World Cup Final in Sweden by a huge margin.

Devon Kershaw (l) and Alex Harvey celebrate their World Championships gold in 2011 in Oslo, Norway. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)

Petter Northug will work with Alsgaard’s Team United Bakeries when he competes in marathon races this winter.

Marit Bjorgen celebrates winning a sprint in Oslo, Norway, March 2011.

Ladies sprint F

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	SWIX
2.	Arianna Follis	ITA	SWIX
3.	Petra Majdic	SLO	One-Way

Mens sprint F

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Marcus Hellner	SWE	SWIX
2.	Petter Northug	NOR	SWIX
3.	Emil Jönsson	SWE	SWIX

Ladies pursuit

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	SWIX
2.	Justyna Kowalczyk	POL	SWIX
3.	Therese Johaug	NOR	SWIX

Mens pusuit

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Petter Northug	NOR	SWIX
2.	Maxim Vylegzhanin	RUS	SWIX
3.	Ilia Chernousov	RUS	SWI

Ladies 10 km C

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	SWIX
2.	Justyna Kowalczyk	POL	SWIX
3.	Aino Kaisa Sarinen	FIN	One-Way

Mens 15 km C

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Heikinnen	FIN	Exel
2.	Eldar Rønning	NOR	SWIX
3.	Martin J Sundby	NOR	KV+

Ladies teamsprint C

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Ingemarsdotter/Kalla	SWE	One-Way/ SWIX
2.	SAARINEN/LAHTEENMAKI	FIN	Madshus/ One-Way
3.	Falla/Jacobsen	NOR	SWIX/SWIX

Mens teamsprint C

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Kershew/Harvey	CAN	SWIX/SWIX
2.	Northug/ Hattestad	NOR	SWIX/SWIX
3.	PANZHINSKIY/KRIUKOV	RUS	SWIX/SWIX

Ladies relay

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	NORWAY	NOR	2x SWIX
2.	SWEDEN	SWE	2x SWIX
3.	FINLAND	FIN

Mens relay

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	NORWAY	NOR	2x SWIX
2.	SWEDEN	SWE	2x SWIX
3.	GERMANY	GER	2x SWIX

Ladies 30 km F

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Therese Johaug	NOR	SWIX
2.	Marit Bjørgen	NOR	SWIX
3.	Justyna Kowalczyk	POL	SWIX

Mens 50 km F

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Petter Northug	NOR	SWIX
2.	Maxim Vylegzhanin	RUS	SWIX
3.	Tord Asle Gjerdalen	NOR	One-Way

NC Gundersen NH HS106/10 km

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Eric Frenzel	GER	Leki
2.	Tino Edelmann	GER	Leki
3.	Felix Gottwald	AUT	SWIX

NC Team HS106/4×5

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	AUSTRIA	AUT	2x SWIX
2.	GERMANY	GER	1x SWIX
3.	NORWAY	NOR	2xSWIX

NC Gundersen LH HS134/10 km

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	Jason Lamy Chappuis	FRA	SWIX
2.	Johannes Rydzek	GER	SWIX
3.	Eric Frenzel	GER	Leki

NC Team HS134/4×5 km

	Name	Nation	Poles
1.	AUSTRIA	AUT	2x SWIX
2.	GERMANY	GER	1x SWIX
3.	NORWAY	NOR	2x SWIX

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8 comments

RonBott
March 11, 2011 at 10:01 am

I wish all the ski companies would stop with this silliness. OK, you sponsor many top athletes, we get it. But do you really think these same athletes would not have won had then been using One Way, Leki, Excel or some other pole? Enough already.
zachhandler
March 11, 2011 at 10:28 am

It is silly. But I imagine faster skier has to pay the bills somehow.
RonBott
March 11, 2011 at 10:31 am

I don’t fault FasterSkier at all for publishing these press releases. It pays the bills and allows for the exceptional coverage they provide.
nordicguy
March 11, 2011 at 10:53 am

I hear you on that RonBott. Elite skiers are going to use whatever product gives them the most money.
Tim Kelley
March 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm

I agree RonBott. These industry statistics articles are lame (but I understand that FS has to pay the bills). Of the 51 medals won on Swix poles, how many were won by skiers that were paid to use Swix? 51 I would bet. A better gauge of a pole’s success would be from races where most skiers buy their own gear.
nexer
March 11, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Forget poles. I want to know what underwear brand won the most medals at WC’s.
Cloxxki
March 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm

The sponsor silliness that bothers me most is the atletes dragging the show-only skis and poles around everywhere they go. We know you ski and pole brands, thank you.
Especially I detest when they cross the line and are holding the show skis before they’ve clipped out of the ones that actually did the work.

On these Triacs though, I feel ambivalent about them. I need/want to buy new skating poles, and to better my Carbonlites, will take some. I am wishing to make the move to trigger grips, and will not foresake any stiffness or lightweight. Triacs seem to be what to get, however the grips/straps seem to be what you’d expecct on $70 carbon poles. So understated, and non-trigger. Flexing the pole son the shop floor though, they’re very impressive, and light as any other pole in a shorter length. €350 is just so steep for a pair of poles, considering this buys you Fisher Carbonlite skis which seem a lot harder to manufacture, let alone design.
zachhandler
March 11, 2011 at 10:08 pm

I want to know if tord gjerdalen had to buy his own aviator glasses…