Continental Cup

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Andy Newell (USST) got his season off to a strong start by dominating the qualification round in an FIS Classic Sprint in Muonio, Finland. Newell bested second-place finisher Vassili Rotchev (RUS) by just under 2.5 seconds. Torin Koos joined his teammate in the heats, qualifying in 18th. Newell felt strong heading into the heats and advanced first through the quarterfinals, but was derailed in the semis when he fell trying to move into first on...

The 2008 FIS Australia — New Zealand Cup (ANC) for Cross-Country Skiing will begin next weekend, kicking off with the Australian Sprint Championships at Perisher Valley on 9th August. The series then continues with three events at the Snow Farm in New Zealand, before returning to Australia for two distance events at Falls Creek on 23rd-24th August. The Continental Cup series concludes with the Kangaroo Hoppet 42km event at Falls Creek on 30th August. The...

Three races remain on the 2007-2008 SuperTour – this weekend's American Birkebeiner and US Distance Nationals at the end of the season in Fairbanks. Garrott Kuzzy (CXC) holds a 44 point lead over Lars Flora (Factory Team) in the overall men's standings. Kuzzy is now in Europe racing on the World Cup, giving Flora a chance to make up ground. Leif Zimmermann (USST), in third place, is also in Europe. On them women's side, Kristina...

Editor's Note: FasterSkier mistakenly left Abby Larson out of the initial race report. Larson finished third and this article has been updated with the correct results. Junior Noah Hoffman skied away with an impressive win in the Owl Creek Chase SuperTour. Hoffman put 56 seconds on second place finisher Tad Elliot while winning with a time of 1:05:22. Elliot was 46 seconds ahead of Rossignol's Zach Simons. Hoffman's performance was all the more impressive in...

Kristina Strandberg (Factory Team) won the women's 5km classic SuperTour in Aspen Colorado yesterday in a time of 16:49.5. Strandberg won by 47.6 seconds over Nicole De Yong (SVSEF/Fischer-Craft). Martina Stursova (Rossignol) took third, 3 second in back of De Yong. A resurgent Krstina Trygstad-Saari (BSF) and Karin Camenisch (Rossignol) rounded out the top five. Camenisch and Strandberg are currently locked in a battle for the overall SuperTour lead, with Strandberg on top 310 to...

ASPEN, CO — Hundreds of Nordic skiers began arriving in Aspen Monday night for the upcoming Aspen Nordic Festival set for Thursday through Sunday. The festival’s highlight is one of Colorado’s favorite annual events, the 21st Owl Creek Chase from Snowmass to Aspen presented by the City of Aspen Parks and Recreation department and The Ute Mountaineer. Added this year for the first time are Thursday and Friday events to create a unique 4-day festival...

Leading the overall SuperTour Sprint standings after the final sprint competitions of the season in Madison, Garrott Kuzzy (CXC) and Karin Camenisch (Rossignol) have won the overall sprint titles, earning $3,000 each for their victories. This was the third overall SuperTour sprint victory for Karin Camenisch, now a Swiss World Cup skier. She also won the Overall SuperTour title in 2005, and has seven SuperTour victories to her name. Camenisch edged Rossignol teammate Martina Stursova...

Over 35,000 spectators came out over the weekend to watch two days of sprint racing by the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol building, tripling the number of spectators of the past three years. “We worked hard towards building a strong spectator base and that was our goal this year. An incredible amount of people all along the race course was a good measurement that we are working in the right direction” commented Yuriy Gusev,...

On day 2 of the Telemark SuperTour weekend, featuring mass-start classic races, UAF's Marius Korthauer racked up another win, leading from the start and sprinting ahead of Fischer-Craft's Zach Violett to a one-second victory. Atomic's Bryan Cook came in alone for third followed by a close group of four skiers led by Andre Watt (CXC Team), ahead of Brayton Osgood (Fischer-Craft), Martin Banerud (NMU), and Phil Violett (NMU.) Temperatures were warmer than the previous day–around...

UAF's Marius Korthauer, who won Wednesday's SuperTour sprint freestyle in Duluth, continued to show impressive speed and strength, taking Saturday's 10km SuperTour race by 12 seconds ahead of strong efforts by NMU/Atomic's Bryan Cook and Fischer-Craft's Brayton Osgood. Former US Olympic Team standout John Bauer (Rossignol), semi-ex-retired for about the 3rd time, finished just off the podium with NMU's Martin Banerud in fifth. Conditions were reasonably fast despite some light accumulation of new snow over...

The Jury and Competition Committee of the CXC Mt Itasca SuperTour/CCSA/MW JOQ/HS/Citizen races scheduled to be held this weekend, January 19-20 in Coleraine, MN, regret to announce that the races have been canceled due to predicted extreme cold weather. Athletes registered for these races will receive a mailed check to refund entry fees less $5 to cover existing expenses.

DUNTROON, ONT.— Canada’s Sara Renner and George Grey won their second gold medals of the week at the Haywood NorAm Cross-Country Ski Series in Duntroon, Ontario on Sunday — this time in the women’s and men’s 10- and 15-kilometer classic ski events. Renner, of Canmore, Alta., led the nation’s top women around the challenging 10-kilometer track in Ontario, clocking a winning time of 33 minutes 43.5. “This was definitely my best race so far. I’m...

Racing Action continued today in Duntroon, Ontario with the final selection sprint events for the upcoming FIS World Cup in Canmore, Alberta. Skiers will be selected based on their best 3 of 4 sprints from the early season Canada Cups. Today's sprint event was the last chance skiers had to shine! It was another long day of racing for both athletes and coaches but in the end of the day, it was no big surprise...