The first few laps of the team sprints saw some intense action and tight competition with a narrow course, sharp corners and a steep uphill provided by a specially constructed bridge. In the finals each male skier raced five, female skiers four one kilometer legs. Leads changed often as the stop and go course filled racers legs with lactate. Caitlin Compton and Laura Valaas of CXC established a lead on lap 3 and extended it...
The snow is piled high, 100,000 cubic feet to be more precise, ready to turn the streets white. With racers in peak form coming off of last week’s US National Championships in Houghton, MI it will be one exciting weekend. In addition to bragging rights, races will be chasing for a share of the $130,000 Super Tour prize money and points.
Owl Creek Chase creates new standard in Nordic events for 2007 Aspen, CO – Unprecedented. Landmark. Historic. Just a few of the words used to describe the new Owl Creek Chase presented by Rocky Mountain Nordic. The organizers of one of the premier Nordic events in Colorado are planning something that’s never been done, a combination of major events to create a unique “Super Eventâ€, where national level elite racers will tackle the same course...
Editor's Note: Sorry we are a little late with these results. We've been unavailable the past couple of days. Kris Freeman edged Andy Newell in a battle of the US Ski Team's biggest stars on Sunday in the individual SuperTour sprint race at Soldier Hollow, Utah. Canadian Team members Drew Goldsack and Sean Crooks were third and fourth. In the women's race, Laura Valaas proved once again that she is the dominant sprinter on the...
Kris Freeman – who has won each of the four SuperTour races he has entered – has taken the overall lead in the SuperTour away from James Southam. He has also pulled within three wins of setting the record for career victories in the SuperTour. He currently has 19 wins to his name, and is expected to enter in three competitions at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in Houghton, MI, Jan. 3-7. Anders Haugen, despite...
Result and photos from Soldier Hollow skate races on Saturday: ——————————————————————————– -Men-15 km Rank Bib Name Class Affiliation Time Back ——————————————————————————– 1 179 FREEMAN, Kris MS US Ski Team 36:04.8 0 2 164 ROYCROFT, Dan MS Canadian National Te 36:44.1 +39.3 3 170 NIGHBOR, Dave MU23 Canadian National Te 36:58.9 0 4 172 JOHNSON, Andrew MS US Ski Team 37:02.1 +57.3 5 177 GOLDSACK, Drew MS Canadian National Te 37:10.7 +1:05.9 6 182 SWENSON, Carl...
Top Standings after Saturday's race at Soldier Hollow. Men's Overall (Yellow Jersey) 1. James Southam (USA) – 113 points 2. Lars Flora (USA) – 102 points 3. Brayton Osgood (USA) – 97 points Men's Distance (Red Jersey) 1. Kris Freeman (USA) – 90 points 2. Lars Flora (USA) – 77 points 3. Day Roycroft (CAN) – 71 points Men's Sprint (Blue Jersey) 1. James Southam (USA) – 63 points 2. Anders Haugen (USA) – 60...
Big Field Set for Soldier Hollow SuperTour PARK CITY, Utah (Dec. 12) – High-level competitions within the nordic ski world converge on Utah as the USSA Cross Country SuperTour and the nordic combined World Cup-B open at the 2002 Olympic cross country trails and ski jumps this week. As coaches and athletes began arriving in the Park City area, Olympians Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Bill Demong (Vermontville, NY) were headed back to Europe...
With two wins in Sun Valley, Kris Freeman move into 3rd place in the all-time victory list, 4 away from matching the record of twenty-one wins, shared by Beckie Scott and Carl Swenson. Men's Overall: 1. James Southam (USA) – Will wear the yellow jersey on Saturday 2. Lars Flora (USA) 3. Brayton Osgood (USA) Men's Sprint: 1. James Southam (USA) – Will wear the blue (or yellow) jersey on Sunday 2. Anders Haugen (USA)...
Video summary of the mens 30K mass start on Sunday in Sun Valley. Video by Ian Case. 1 101 FREEMAN, Kris MS USST 1:16:37.2 0 2 106 ROYCROFT, Dan MS Canadian National 1:16:37.8 +0.6 3 111 FLORA, Lars MS Subaru Factory Team 1:17:39.4 +1:02.2 4 103 SOUTHAM, James MS Rossignol 1:17:40.5 +1:03.3 5 112 NIGHBOR, Dave MS Canadian National 1:18:20.3 +1:43.1 6 102 JOHNSON, Andrew MS USST 1:19:26.7 +2:49.5 Video of the top six women...
These photos are a few days old now, but they are very good so we decided to share them anyway. All photos were taken by junior skier Scott Krankkala. Laura Valaas Kate Whitcomb Reid Pletcher
Conditions were snowy and in some places soft, with temps in the 20's. In the women's race, Caitlin Compton secured her place at the top of the SuperTour overall standings with another victory in today's 15k free mass start. She was five seconds ahead of Morgan Arritola, and fifteen seconds ahead of Tazlina Mannix. In the men's 30k mass start race, the starting pace was surprisingly relaxed for a mass start, with Southam setting the...
Skiing under clear blue skis against the stunning backdrop of the Boulder Mountains, Kris Freeman(USST) jammed around a 10km classic course at Galena Lodge to take the win in the 6th event of the USSA Super Tour. Just back from Europe, Kris showed no effects from travel as he lead from start to finish with what turned out to be a 17 second margin of victory over Canadian National Team Skier Drew Goldsack. Third went...
Laura Valaas (undefeated in Sprint) and James Southam (despite not racing today) hang onto both the yellow and blue jerseys. However, the distance skiers take over now, with 4 distance races in the next 11 days. Women's Overall (yellow jersey) 1. Laura Valaas (USA) 135 points 2. Caitlyn Compton (USA) 112 points 3. Karin Camenisch (SUI) 75 points Women's Sprint (blue jersey) 1. Laura Valaas (USA) 120 points 2. Caitlyn Compton (USA) 87 points 3....
Canadians took 7 of the 8 spots in the mens and womens A Finals in Sun Valley today. The lone American bright spot was Laura Valaas, who notched another victory. The Canadian men put on a dominating performance in Wednesday's Sun Valley Supertour Classic Sprint at the Lake Creek ski trails. After spending last week at the Canadian Nor Am races in Canmore, they came south and swept the top six places in the men's...
2007 SuperTour Overall Standings Men Overall Rank Name Nation Nov. 24 Nov. 25 Dec. 2 Dec. 3 Total Earnings 1 James Southam USA 12 11 30 21 74 $1,050 2 Marshall Greene USA 9 10 11 30 60 $825 3 Brayton Osgood USA 11 12 4 30 57 $875 4 Eric Strabel USA 13 25 18 56 $525 5 Lars Flora USA 25 30 55 $1,250 6 Colin Mahood USA 21 18 15 54 $450...
Sunday was another chilly day at the BSF SuperTour races in Bozeman, MT. The event was a classical team-sprint with semifinals in the morning, and finals just after noon. Morning temperatures in the low-teens made for relatively easy wax conditions, however the situation became more and more complex as the day wore on and the temperatures rose into the mid-20’s. Again, the course was firm and fast. Meeting expectations after they both achieved podium-positions yesterday,...
Here is a collection of videos from this past weekend's SuperTour races in Bozeman, Montana. All videos by Ian Case. Editor's Note: FasterSkier.com welcomes video submissions. If you have a video that would be of interest to our readers, please let us know. You can either send us the link, or you can email it to us. See the contact us page for email addresses. Women's Individual Sprint Finals: Laura Valaas won her second SuperTour...
It came as no surprise that CXC teammates Laura Valaas and Caitlin Compton were the dominant team in today's SuperTour sprint relay in Bozeman, Montana. After all, the two of them have divvied up all of the SuperTour wins so far this season. Valaas has won the two individual sprints, and Compton won the lone distance race while also making the podium in both sprints. They ran away with today's relay, which consisted of each...
Cold temperatures, sunny skies, and hard-packed, machine-made snow made for fast racing in Bozeman on Saturday. Athletes competed in an individual sprint over rolling terrain on a course of 1,200 meters. The speed of the snow, coupled with a technical course made for a lot of races that weren’t decided until the final 100 meters. Winners on the day were Laura Valaas [CXC/Salomon], coming off a victory in last week’s sprint race in West Yellowstone,...