THE 4th ANNUAL EQUINOX SKI CHALLENGE: How Far Can You Go? The Equinox Ski Challenge will again welcome the Spring and host an exciting finale to the Nordic ski season on March 20th and 21st at the Rendezvous Ski Trails in West Yellowstone, MT. This event is ingrained with camaraderie, challenge, and commitment to the well being of our communities. Similar to the 24 Hour mountain bike races, skiers complete as many laps as they...
Come and support Canada’s top Para-Nordic skiers – racing in categories from sit-ski to amputees to blind.
Pavel Sotskov is a recent Dartmouth College graduate who is training and working in New Zealand for the summer at the Snowfarm. He has been in New Zealand since mid June and will be returning to Presque Isle, ME to race for MWSC this coming winter. He has sent several updates on his experiences. This summer, Maine Winter Sports Center became one of only two US teams to compete in the nordic skiing events at the inaugural 100%...
10/15 km Classic – Sunday August 23 The NZ Winter Games opened today with the 15km Classic for men and the 10km Classic for women. Devon Kershaw led a Canadian sweep of the podium in the men’s 15-kilometer race. The leader of the men’s team clocked a time of 37 minutes 51.82 seconds. Ivan Babikov was second at 37:56.36, while Alex Harvey rounded out the men’s podium in third at 38:23.02. “It was a hard day with...
The Australian Cross Country Skiing Championships and FIS Australia – New Zealand Cup (ANC) moved to Perisher Valley last weekend for races on August 15-16. While Australian Ben Sim put up a tough fight in Saturday’s race Thomas Diezig from Switzerland was the dominant male athlete, winning both the 10km Freestyle and 15km Classic events. In the women’s events Katherine Calder from New Zealand cleaned up in the 5km Freestyle and 10km Classic and has...
The Australian Cross Country Skiing Championships in Sprint and Mass Start disciplines were held at Falls Creek on August 8-9. It was an exciting weekend of racing, with a strong international field and many close finishes in the head-to-head competitions. In the men’s events Switzerland was the dominant nation, with Valerio Leccardi winning the Sprint and Thomas Diezig winning the 30km Freestyle. In the women’s events Esther Bottomley from Australia won the Sprint and Katherine...
Despite racing with a fractured right hand, Max Durtschi, 18 years old, raced to victory in both the road race and criterium in last weeks USA Junior National Championships. Durtschi earned the stars and stripes jersey in both events held in Bend, Oregon. On Thursday (7/30) Durtschi pummeled the field in the grueling 108K Road Race. Starting in 90 degree F. temperatures the thermometer topped 100 degrees F. by the end, forcing 28 racers to...
Over the next three days, FasterSkier will be bringing you coverage from the mountain biking World Cup in Bromont, Quebec. We hope that our reporting will give a good perspective of another endurance and sprint sport at the elite level. The World Cup consists of three events: cross-country, which is a typical long-distance race; downhill, in which riders bomb down alpine ski trails; and four-cross, where four racers go head-to-head-to-head-to-head on a short (less than...
One of the summer highlights for the Cross-Country skiers is the so-called Tour de Trøndelag, in Meraker (NOR). The three-day event again attracted many of the leading Cross-Country stars to test their mid-summer shape last weekend. This summer Tour included two roller ski races (mass start and pursuit) and a cross-country race on snow. Racing on his home turf, the triple world champion from Liberec 2009, Petter Northug (NOR) again demonstrated his invincibility in the...
The results are out, and Nordic skiers dominated the 33rd annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle in Bend, Oregon. The fastest posted time of 1:41.58 was from men’s pairs team Eric Martin and Paul Parsons, two high school Nordic coaches. The fastest Elite Male was XC Oregon skier Marshall Greene, winning his fourth consecutive PPP in 1:43.29. XC Oregon skier Zach Violett finished 3rd and Torin Koos (USST), in his first PPP, took home a fourth place...
The Bend Bulletin reports that Olympians Torin Koos (USST) and Lars Flora (APUNSC) will race the 33rd annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle in Bend, Oregon tomorrow. The PPP consists of an alpine ski, 8K cross-country ski, 22-mile bike ride, 10K run, 2K canoe/kayak, and half-kilometer sprint — on a course from Mount Bachelor to the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. Other top participants include three-time definding champion Marshall Greene as well as Zach Violett and Brayton...
June 6-7 Weekend event at the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park includes kid’s mountain bike race and Alberta Cup Mountain Bike race. Top racers will be vying for Canada Cup points, while kids will learn the basic fun elements of the sport!
May 9 Orienteering: Permanent Course Spring Map Launch Event
Since 1997 with the beginning of spring and end of the skiing season the 24 Relay at Lappe has been a test of endurance and speed for both recreational and elite athletes in Thunder Bay. In the 24 hour period from March 21 – 22 several records were set. Kelly Henry of Thunder Bay skied just over 285 km eclipsing the former 265 km standard set in 2005. In the team event a four man...
Brian Chimileski of Golden, Colorado and Sarah Konrad (Madshus) of Laramie, Wyoming won the 2008-09 Colorado Cup sponsored by Clif Bar, Swix, and Boulder Nordic Sport. Both skiers skied in all five events and their consistency paid off as they each came out ahead of the region’s elite talent like, for example, Josh Smullin (Rossignol) who scored well but, in Smullin’s case, skied only two of the five races. The Colorado Cup works in conjunction...
The US Ski Orienteering team competed in the 2009 World Championships earlier this month in Japan. This was the first world championships in ski orienteering that has ever been held outside of Europe, and the Japanese were very excited to be our hosts. The US team had some good results and some results we’d like to improve upon, but we all had a great time while over there, and the Japanese hosts were eager to...
The Arrowhead 135 mile ultra marathon is an epic ski, foot or bike trek over snowy, hilly, rugged wilderness trail in Northern Minnesota near the Canadian Border from “Frostbite Falls” to Tower, Lake Vermilion, MN. Registration opens in August. Race starts first Monday of February. Pre-race gear check and meeting on Saturday & Sunday prior to the Monday morning start at the Arrowhead State Trail crossing Highway 53. Cut-0ff time is 60 hours. (This is not...
Whistler, British Columbia – The Paralympic Olympic test events were a great success. Reports from the US and Canada below. Bascio leads U.S. at Whistler Paralympic Test Event by Ian Lawless The U.S. Ski Team’s Monica Bascio (LW11, Evergreen, CO) made a triumphant return to the podium last Thursday at the IPC Paralympic Cross Country test event at Whistler Olympic Park, with a bronze in the 5-kilometer middle distance race. The American finished just :26...
Rebecca Dussault (Saab Salomon Factory Team) raced to victory, putting together the best bike, snowshoe, run and randonnee ski times to capture the XTERRA Winter World Championship. Last year Rebecca Dussault had a two-minute lead heading into the final ski stage but was on a heavy telemark ski set-up while eventual champion Sari Anderson came screaming by her on a randonnee rig and took away the win. It was an important equipment lesson learned for...
