Biathlon: Canadian Championships
FasterSkierOctober 24, 2009
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Biathlon: NorAm CUP
FasterSkierOctober 24, 2009
As the highest-level ski racing series in North America it provides a perfect opportunity for Canadian racers to prepare for international levels of competition.
The International Competition Committee of the US Biathlon Association is pleased to announce that Kevin Patzoldt of Grand Rapids, MN will be named as the 5th man for the US World Cup team. Kevin is a graduate of Gustavus Adolfus College and has been training full time with coach Vladimir Cervenka at Mt Itasca Biathlon for the past year and half. Kevin is a veteran of several World Junior Championship Teams, and has competed several...
The Maine Winter Sports Center’s Biathlon Team heads to Utah for three weeks of training. The Team will train primarily at Soldier Hollow, the venue for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Joining the MWSC Biathlon Team will be both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams. Training Both Men’s and Women’s Teams will train alongside the very best biathletes in the U.S. Taking advantage of the high altitude and beautiful surroundings, the camp will be...
US Biathlon Repeats Success at Summer World Championships
FasterSkierSeptember 29, 2009
Another day, another great result for the US Biathlon Team. The World Championships in Summer Biathlon ended Sunday in Oberhof with the Pursuit competitions. Again, the US Team turned in a strong team performance. The US men started the pursuit competition in strong position. Although the desired medal was again denied, the men nevertheless managed to prove that they are in good form entering the Olympic year. Tim Burke started fourth, 23 seconds behind Saturday’s...
Östersund, Sweden, Carl Johan Bergman of Sweden claimed his second victory in a row in the Men’s 10K Sprint at the IBU Rollerski Biathlon Cup, while Helena Jonsson stepped up her performance to take the title in the Women’s 7.5K Sprint on Saturday. Bergman Wins by 2.1 Seconds Bergman’s margin of victory was quite as comfortable as in Friday’s 12.5K cross-country race, where he won by 26.6 seconds. today, he covered the 10K in 23:43.2,...
The Road to Whistler: Tim Burke
Nathaniel HerzJuly 9, 2009
Tim Burke is a member of the U.S. Biathlon A Team, and has already qualified for the 2010 Olympics based on his results from last year. In 2008-2009, he finished 25th overall in the World Cup standings, with two top-ten finishes: eighth in the pursuit in Khanty-Mansijsk, Russia, and ninth in the sprint in Trondheim, Norway. He competed in the Olympics in Torino in 2006, placing 37th in the sprint. FasterSkier: You’re currently at a...
Caribou, Maine Nintendo Wii, the world’s leading video game system, has come out with a biathlon game which features 13 World Cup venues and Maine biathlon fans will be excited to know that Fort Kent is one of them. The game is an interactive system that requires you to simulate the skiing motion with a game wand in each hand while standing on a game-board shifting your weight from side to side. While the motion...
FasterSkier Biathlete of the Year The FasterSkier Biathlete of the Year is awarded to the top North American biathletes. Biathlete of the Year (men): Tim Burke (USA). Burke repeats as the male winner of the Biathlete of the Year Award. He started slowly, not cracking the top 20 in a World Cup race until late January. But he came on strong, showing the form that has made him the top North American biathlete for the...
Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, March 28. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished 8th in today’s 12.5K Pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Cup here, moving up from 25th position at the start. Burke moved steadily with each shooting stage and each loop today finishing with a single penalty, finished 1:05.6 behind Emile Hegle Svendsen of Norway. He recorded the fourth fastest ski time of the day. He was happy to be moving forward for the whole...
Trondheim, Norway, March 21. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished 13th in today’s 12.5K Pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Cup here, slipping four spots from his 9th place in Thursday’s Sprint. Burke, with three penalties, finished 1:14.8 behind Ole Einar Björndalen of Norway, who took the victory after shooting clean in the final standing stage. The “King of Biathlon” notched his 88th World Cup win in 33:36.3, with two penalties. At one point today,...
Trondheim, Norway, March 19. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished ninth in today’s 10K Sprint at the inaugural Biathlon World Cup here, while Teammate Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY) finished 20th. The 9th place, with one penalty was Burke’s best result of the season, topping his 11th place in the same competition at the Biathlon World Championships last month. With Bailey shooting clean today, The duo also recorded the best two US results in the...
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada – Jeremy Teela (Anchorage, AK) turned in the best result of his career with a third place finish in the 20K Individual competition today. Teela’s third place is the best US result in a World Cup level competition since Josh Thompson finished second in the Canmore, Canada World Cup in 1992, in ironically the same event, the 20K. Teela, whose best ever 20K previously was 14th place in the 2002 Olympic...
Teela on Biathlon World Cup Podium
FasterSkierMarch 11, 2009
Whistler, British Columbia – Jeremy Teela (USA) finished third today in the men’s 20km individual biathlon World Cup competition. Teela had just one penalty and was 4.3 seconds out of 2nd place, and 23.3 seconds behind winner Jay Vincent (FRA). More to follow.
www.boldbeautifulbiathlon.com on the Internet, targeted retail outlets across Western Canada, and by each one of the athletes personally as they travelled the world. “There are so many sponsors, volunteers, retailers, family, friends and members of the Canadian media to thank,” said Megan Tandy,” who starred on the memorable Rick Mercer show with Rosanna Crawford in January to help showcase the calendar which sparked the reprint. “Each person who backed this project will own a piece of our...
ETHAN ALLEN FIRING RANGE, Jericho, Vt. – After falling short of sweeping both of last year’s individual races here at the Chief of the National Guard Bureau Biathlon Championships, Vermont Army National Guard Sgt. Jesse Downs was determined to vindicate himself at this year’s 28th annual event. Last year, Downs was defeated in the 10k race by just one second by a fellow All-Guard team member, 2nd Lt. Samuel Morse. He managed to edge out...
The chaotic World Champs in Asia are history, now the US Biathlon team is looking forward to the next stop on the tour – probably the most important this year. It is the Pre-Olympic World Cup test event coming up next week on the biathlon course at Whistler Olympic Park. While other nations already arrived on the Vancouver 2010 venue to get used to the time difference the U.S. team at least does not...
LIBEREC, Czech Republic – A pair of medals Sunday at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Liberec has boosted the U.S. Ski Team back into the medals count lead with four, including three gold, after eight of 20 Championship events. American Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) won his second gold in three days in nordic combined Sunday, with teammate Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) taking silver. The World Championships continue through March 1. There are...