It wasn’t a show-race with sponsors or spectators, only a basic skate rollerski time-trial on a cold and rainy Monday morning October 3. Only two athletes showed up for our 9.30 am start skate time-trial from the base of Mtn. Dell reservoir and up East Canyon (between Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah) on Monday, October 3. We might need to consider better advertising and weekend instead of weekday for our next race… We...
Green Mountain Valley School offers Nordic Ski Clinics For Skiers and Coaches at Weston, MA — November 4-5th Rollerski Race up Appalachian Gap — November 12th September 27 (Waitsfield, VT): Get a jump on the competition this winter. Before the snow flies, here’s a chance to be coached by one of the best nordic coaches in the United States. Learn how he makes skiers fast enough earn spots on the New England Junior and World...
Pietro Piller-Cottrer, the 15-kilometer World Champion from Oberstdorf last winter showed that he is in good fall shape by winning the Grand Prix Sportful rollerski hillclimb in Italian alporten Feltre on Sunday. Source: Skidsport.com The race was 11.3 kilometer of uphill and national team skiers from Italy, Spain, Austria and Finland participated. Piller Cottrer won by 25 seconds ahead of teammate Giorgio Di Centa. Simone Paredi was third, 42 seconds out. The Austrian Olympic medal...
Last season’s 50-kilometer silver medallist at Worlds, Anders Aukland beat the Norwegian cross country running champion and several elite skiers to win the Mosviksenderen running hill climb last weekend. Source: Langrenn.com Aukland won by beating the Norwegian cross country running champion, Trond Idland and setting a new course record of 20.54, an improvement of the old record by 1 minute and 4 seconds. The women’s race was won by runner Anita Hakenstad Evertsen in 25,17....
Evi Stehle (formerly Sachenbacher) and Jens Filbrich were fastest in the annual German fall skate rollerski time-trial on Sunday. Source xc-ski.de and Skidsport.com The women skied 9-kilometer and Evi Stehle dominated by beating Claudia Kunzel Nystad by 50 seconds. Third was as in Saturday’s running time-trial, Steffi Bohler. The men raced 15-kilometer and Jen Filbrich won by 7.4 seconds over Axel Teichman. Filbrich started 15 seconds behind Teichman and caught him early. They pushed the...
The annual German fall test is taking place this weekend. Tobias Angerer won the men’s running time-trial while Claudia Kunsel Nystad won the women’s event on Saturday. The German team is as usual putting in solid training. This weekend is the annual fall test for all German youth, juniors and World Cup skiers. Source: xc-ski.de and Skidsport.com The men ran 10-kilometer in tough terrain at the Grenzadler stadium and Tobias Angerer won ahead of Andres...
An awesome race! mass start, up a huge climb. the guys were HURTING!!! I've never seen guys like this look behind them so many times. Bird said – “This was a good lesson in going out too hard, I got a big lead early on the climb ahead of Simons, but he and Flora started coming too close for comfort in the last pitch”. Power struggle Waiting for the athletes to return Zack Simons can...
The following article came from Today's victor – Zack Simons, FSx Rollerski racing is different than ski races. There are always differences in skis even of the same brand. Everyone but Luke Pletcher (SVSEF) had Marwe skis but there were noticeable differences in ski speed even among the Marwe’s. Execution of the workout — the race — is what is important. Warm up must prepare the skier to put up a very fast prelim time...
Anders Sodergren won the Swedish team’s five-kilometer uphill rollerski skate time-trial in Ramsau, Austria on Saturday. He was 17 seconds ahead of Johan Olsson. Sodergren looked very strong. Peter Larsen was third, 25 seconds behind Sodergren, while Mathias Fredriksson was fourth, almost a whole minute behind. Jorgen Brink was fifth, Mikael Ostberg was sixth and Thobias Fredriksson seventh. Bjorn Lind did the time-trial classic instead of skating and Mats Larsson didn’t race. Per Elofsson didn’t...
Marit Bjorgen and Stig Rune Kveen won, as they also did last year, this weekends 24-kilometer long classic rollerski race from Storen to Budalen in Norway, both with new course records. Source: Langrenn.com 70 skiers including several national team skiers from both the men’s and the women’s team showed up for the 24-kilometer long MaxPulse classic rollerski race on Saturday. It was no surprise that Marit Bjorgen won the women’s race. Stig Rune Kveen won...
FIS Rollerski World Cup 2005 Oroslavje (Croatia) 19th — 21st August 2005 ROLLERSKI: ANOTHER EXCITING COMPETITION IN THE CROATIAN WORLD CUP Oroslavje (Croatia) 21st August 2005 — In the last race of the Croatian rollerskiing World Cup in Oroslavjie, the today sprint on 150 meters, podium for the Bogatec family. In the men race victory for David Bogatec / ITA on the world champion Igor Glushkov / RUS and third position for the Igor Cuny...
FIS Rollerski World Cup 2005 Oroslavje (Croatia) 19th — 21st August 2005 ROLLERSKI: ITALY TO THE TOP IN THE CROATIAN WORLD CUP Oroslavje (Croatia) 19th august 2005 – The first Friday 19th race Prologue FIS World cup Oroslavje 2005 held in Bistra — 6000 m race climbing in classic technique. Under tough and demanding conditions, sunny and warm weather we got surprised by the results. During this first day for Rollerski World Cup the Italian...
Norwegian Tommy Aasen and Swede Fredrik Ostberg beat Tor Arne Hetland in a rollerski sprint race in Hamar, Norway on Thursday. Marit Bjorgen won the women’s race. Relatively unknown Tommy Aasen showed his sprint potential and won Thursday 200-meter uphill rollerski sprint race in Hamar on Thursday. Aasen outsprinted Fredrik Ostberg and Olympic and World champion Tor Arne Hetland for the victory. Marit Borgen won the women’s race ahead of Guro Strom Sollie
Source: Langrenn.com Kristina Smigun and Vassilj Rottchev won the big annual Suverull competition in Estonia. A large portion on the Worlds best skiers took part in race that consist of a 2.7 k rollerski prolog, a 3 (women) and 6 k (men) running race and a 12 and 20-kilometer rollerski pursuit race. Sweden’s Bjorn Lind won the prolog in 4.32 while Aleksander Legov of Russia won the running race. Russia took the top three spots...
Last year’s junior World Champions Marte Elden and Petter Northug continues to impress. This week they won a rollerski time-trial at the open Norwegian junior national team camp in Trysil. No other skiers were close to the two. 22 skiers did the girls time-trial and 44 did the boys race. Source: Langrenn.com RESULTS GIRLS – 3 LAPS Nr Name Age Time 1 Marte Elden 18/19 20,10 2 Randi Skjeldal 17 21,15 3 Linda Iversen 18/19...
Some of Norway’s best cross country skiers were not able to beat good runners in the very tough “Skala 1848 meter straight up†hill climb. Uphill specialist Odd Bjorn Helmeset ended up in fourth place, but was solidly beaten by the European uphill champion. Kristin Stormer Steira was second in the women’s race. Source: Langrenn.com Skala 1848-meter straight up (we assume based upon the winners time that 1848-meter is the total altitude difference from the...
The Norwegian national team did an uphill skate rollerski time-trial outside Lillehammer on Monday. The regular team, the sprinters and a group of good local skiers made up the large field of 26 skiers. Kristen Skjeldal won in dominating style in a race with big time gaps between the racers. Source: Langrenn.com Results 1. Kristen Skjeldal 40,48 2. Tore Ruud Hofstad 41,56 3. Jon Anders Gaustad 42,02 4. Espen Harald Bjerke 42,26 5. Frode Estil...
FIS Rollerski World Cup 2005 Villard de Lans (France) — 9th:10th July 2005 ROLLERSKI: ALFIO DI GREGORIO WINNER IN WORLD CUP MASS-START press release of 10th July 2005 Is over the second stage of the rollerski World Cup 2005 hold in Villard de Lans / France in the weekend. Two races in program: Saturday the sprint and today the mass-start. SPRINT In the sprint races success of the « zar » Igor Glushkov / RUS...
Cross country skier Martin Bajcicak from Slovenia was sixth in the European Uphill championship on July 10. Source: Langrenn.com http://www.fasterskier.com/travel2372.html Results
FasterSkier.com has reported a number of different records or fast times set by a variety of cross-country skiers this spring and summer. We are talking about O2 records, hill climbs, running time-trials, rollerski and cycling races. Lets hear about skiers going fast in races in your area, on your team or in your country! We have lately reported that US junior skier Morgan Arritola and Glenn Randal set hill-climb records at the recent Western Regional...