PARK CITY, UT – On Saturday, October 24th, Steinbock Racing will host the 350.org/Steinbock Invitational, a rollerski race at Soldier Hollow, in Midway, UT. While the 350.org/Steinbock Invitational will provide a great racing opportunity for rollerskiers of all abilities, it’s also one of over 3500 actions taking place in over 160 countries around the globe as a part of the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. Founded by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben,
Willie’s 5k Run for the Environment was held on a perfect clear crisp Saturday morning, Oct 17th. Organized in honor of Willie Neal, of Jackson Hole, WY, who lived in Sun Valley in 2008-09, training and racing as a Post Grad with SVSEF. Tragically, Willie was killed in June 2009 when hit by a car while roller skiing in Maine. In his memory, SVSEF Comp Team member Daniel Sundali organized this run as a school project. The...
North Haven Island, ME–The third annual Lobster Roll saw nearly 75 competitors cruise around this scenic island last Saturday. The event, organized by the Maine Winter Sports Center, serves as Maine’s collegiate rollerski championship. Teams from Colby, Bowdoin, UMO, UMPI, MWSC and individuals from Gould Academy and the Maine Coast Nordic Team took on this year’s 16km freestyle race. Lucy Garrec, of Colby College, charged to the finish first in a tight women’s battle. Despite...
After a seven year break while the access roads to Mt. Greylock got a much needed overhaul, the Mt. Greylock Roller Ski and Roller Blade races are back. The event, a benefit for the Northern Berkshire Special Olympics, will be held on Sunday, October 18th, at 10:00 A.M. beginning at the Mt. Greylock Visitors’ Center in Lanesboro, MA. Brought to you by the Berkshire Nordic Ski Club, Berkshire Outfitters and FasterSkier.com the race will prove...
LAKE PLACID, NY (Oct. 9) – Athletes went through final training Friday in advance of Saturday’s U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships as a part of Lake Placid’s Flaming Leaves Festival. World Champions Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will be among the favorites. Nordic combined star Lodwick is after his 20th U.S. title, while ski jumper Van is shooting for 14. Weather has been cool in Lake Placid...
LAKE PLACID, NY (Oct. 8) – Having 19 U.S. Championship titles is a lot of success to have amassed as a competitor. But for World Champion Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO), an even 20 sounds a lot nicer. Thankfully, Lodwick will have his shot at his 20th as the 2010 U.S. Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships hits Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, NY, this Saturday. “Yeah of course it would nice to even it out...
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Taylor Fletcher put on a strong move in the later half part of the race to ski away from Nordic Combined teammate Nick Hendrickson and the cross-country team’s Kris Freeman to claim the victory in the annual NYSEF Climb to the Castle rollerski race in Lake Placid, New York. In the women’s race Morgan Arritola (USST) led a strong pack, edging Liz Stephen (USST) by 14 seconds. Ida Sargent (Dartmouth/Craftsbury) took third, just 2.5 seconds...
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...
Olympian Lars Flora set a new course record in the 2009 Pilot Butte Challenge in Bend, Oregon. The race is a 1.2 mile event with 500 feet of vertical gain. Flora unseated Brett Holtz, a Pac-10 Steeplechase and All-America runner in college from the all-time top spot, posting a time of 7:10, 10 seconds faster than Holtz’s mark. Cross-country skiers dominated the top of the field, with the US Ski Team’s Torin Koos finishing second in...
PARK CITY, UT (Sept. 22) – In just two weeks jumping and nordic combined athletes from across the map will descend on Lake Placid, NY in the pursuit of becoming the nation’s best in their respective sports. The U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships will kick off Oct. 10 during Lake Placid’s annual Flaming Leaves Festival. “It’s my hometown and it’s a beautiful time of year to be in Lake Placid. The Flaming Leaves...
Skate TT Whistler Access Road 9/6/09 10.0km 1.7k Split Place 7k Split Place Finish Finish Place Andy Newell 5.21 2 16.52 1 29.28 1 Garrott Kuzzy 5.25 3 17.09 3 29.57 2 Lars Flora 5.16 1 17.01 2 30.26 3 Simi Hamilton 5.43 6 17.54 5 31.03 4 Colin Rodgers 5.40 5 17.42 4 31.12 5 Chris Cook 5.50 7 18.10 T-7 31.32 6 Torin Koos 5.33 4 17.57 6 31.49 7 Michael Sinnott 6.09...
Piglio, Italy – The four event 2009 FIS Rollerski World Championships came concluded on Saturday. The competitions were dominated by rollerski specialists, but several top World Cup skiers made appearances. The week began with a head-to-head .2 km freestyle sprint. Athletes participated in the usual qualifying round to establish seeding and the top-8 advanced to the one-on-one heats. Italian Mateja Bogatec claimed victory in the women’s event over Elena Ektova (RUS). Bogatec won the 2008...
LILLEHAMMER, Norway (Sept. 5) – U.S. Nordic Combined Team athlete Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) carried on the tradition of winning he started last year right into the 2010 Olympic season as he won his 2nd consecutive Lillehammer SuperSprint title in downtown Lillehammer on Saturday. Lodwick led the U.S. team in qualifications, finishing second, followed by Nick Hendrickson (Park City, UT) in sixth, Billy Demong 14th, and Bryan Fletcher 16th. The race was in a...
WILMINGTON, NY — The New York Ski Educational Foundation and the Olympic Regional Development Authority announce the third annual NYSEF Whiteface Climb to the Castle Roller-ski Race on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9 am. The course starts at the Whiteface Toll Booth, climbing for 5 miles with an average 8% grade up the Whiteface Memorial Highway to the castle on the summit of Whiteface Mountain, New York’s 5th highest peak with an elevation of...
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,...
Rutland, VT – Hot sun, a tough course, and great competition greeted rollerskiers for the V2 Rollerskis Climb to Mountain Top. New York Master racer Jim Kobak took the overall victory on his own skis, with Peter Hegman in close pursuit on the evenly matched V2 Rollerskis used by most competitors. Lucy Garrec won the women’s race and set a new course record. Race Director Jim Levins started things off at the Rutland Polo Grounds...
XC Oregon elite skier Stephanie Howe and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay senior XC skier Santi Oscariz (spending Summer 2009 in Bend, Oregon) had podium finishes in the Saturday, August 1 Mt Ashland Hillclimb Run in Ashland, Oregon. The 13.3 mile event begins in Ashland’s beautiful Lithia Park (el 1900′) and climbs on tree-canopied dirt roads and trails to finish on the Mt. Ashland summit (7533′), for a total of 5,600′ of climbing (over a vertical...
Five competitions have already been held in the Roller Ski World Cup 2009. The three races in Orolavje, Croatia at the end of June were followed by two competitions in Markkleeberg (GER) in mid-July. On both weekends the athletes raced in excellent conditions in various competition formats including sprint, pursuit, uphill competitions and mass start races. Currently the leader of the men’s overall ranking is roller ski veteran Alfio Di Gregorio (ITA) with 295 points. The runner up on the men’s...
The 9th annual PNSA Trout Lake training camp welcomed nearly 40 junior and senior Nordic ski racers to Trout Lake, Washington July 15-19, 2009. The camp is the second in a series of three Nordic development camps sanctioned by the Pacific Northwest Ski Association. The first camp was held in Bend, OR in June and the final camp will be a joint effort between PNSA and the Far West divisions August 12-16 in Somes Bar,...