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Fairbanks, December 10, 2005 Just as they did in the first race of the Flint Hills Resources Town Race Series, a mass-start skating race, the UAF Nanook Ski Team dominated the results in the Beaver Sports Classic Sprint at Birch Hill, a race they hadn’t planned on entering. UAF had been scheduled to be racing in Anchorage on Saturday, but UAA Coach Trond Flagstad called UAF Coach Scott Jerome on Thursday to let him know...

Chandra Crawford. Photo by Dan Roycroft of www.skifaster.net

Bjorn Lind (Sweden) and Manuela Henkel (Germany) won the Silver Star Dash For Cash on Tuesday night. The Canadians did very well against the international field on their home turf. Sara Renner took third and Chandra Crawford took fourth in the womens. Phil Widmer took fourth in the mens. Torin Koos and Andrell Newell were both eliminated in the semi-finals. Full results: http://www.skisilverstar.com/photo_showPhotoGallery.html

Lots of big names will be participating in tonight's Dash For Cash at Silver Star. Marit Bjoergen, Beckie Scott, and Tor Arne Hetland are just a few of the top World Cup skiers who will be taking part. $10,000 is up for grabs, here is the start list. American and Canadian top sprinters are going head to head with some of the Worlds best sprinters in today's Silver Star 650-meter night sprint. The prolog is...

The first race in the Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks' 8th Annual Chest Medicine Fairbanks Distance Series was held Sunday, December 4 at Birch Hill under chilly conditions. The race was the “Gundeloppet,” a 15Km and 7.5Km free technique event, so named to commemorate Gunde Svan's win in the 15Km World Cup race held at Birch Hill in March 1984. The temperature at race time at the stadium was around -10F, and was somewhat colder...

Kevin Hochtl and Sadie Bjornsen set new world records in a 100M sprint event in West Yellowstone on Wednesday. Kevin Hotchtl put on a sprint clinic in the men's event, with a top time of 11.94 on his second attempt. Hochtl had the fastest four runs of the day (in four attempts), and three of those were under 12 seconds! The top four men, Hochtl, Tim Weston, Andrew Newell, and Colin Mahood, all came in...

US 100 meter championship slated for 2pm Wednesday in West Yellowstone, MT. The US 100m world record attempt will take place about 50 meters after the main entrance to the Rendezvous Ski Trails on the left hand side… look for the skiers, listen for the bull horn. About 20 of the fastest American skiers will be taking part in this professionally timed event. Be there.

Beckie Scott and George Grey posted the fastest times in a classic time-trial for the Canadian team at Soveriegn Lakes, Canada on Saturday. The women skied 11.3-kilometer and the men skied 15-kilometer. Men - 4 Lap 15 km. Classic PL Bib Name Lap1 Rnk Lap2 Rnk Lap3 Rnk Lap4 Rnk Time Diff 1 2 George Grey 0:11:24.0 (2) 0:11:46.0 (1) 0:12:06.0 (1) 0:12:06.0 (2) 0:47:22.0 +0.0 2 3 Dan Roycroft 0:11:18.0 (1) 0:12:06.0 (2) 0:12:29.0...

UAF Skiers Dominate First Race in 10th Annual Flint Hills Town Race Series The UAF Ski Team displayed depth and speed Saturday in walking away with the first four women's and first five men's finishers in the Fairbanks Youth Sports Season Opener, the first race in the 10th Annual Flint Hills Resources Town Race Series. Coming two weeks after the SuperTour opened up the national calendar, this event kicked off the local racing scene. Well...

Wang Chunli from China won the women’s freestyle race in Sariselkä on Sunday. The men’s race was dominated by Russian skiers which captured the top three spots with Sergie Novikov at the top. Source: Skidsport.com Results: Women 10 km 1 Chunli,Wang China 22:42,7 2 Hietamäki,Elina +4,3 3 Saari,Milla +6,8 4 Venäläinen,Kati +21,3 5 Fukuda,Nobuko Japani +33,9 6 Yokoyama,Sumiko Japani +37,0 7 Soneta,Chizuru Japani +44,1 8 Tarvonen,Silja +47,6 9 Issachenko,Natalya Kazakstan +53,1 10 Hongxue,Li Kiina +58,1...

Source: Skidsport.com/Glid Kina Swiden won the women’s 9-kilometer classic training race and the USA's Carl Swenson won the Men’s 15-kilometer classic on Saturday in Kiruna, Sweden. Results: Men 15km 1 Carl Swensson USA 35,27 2 Erland Hoft NOR 36,06 3 Magnus Jonsson Mora 36,18 4 Rikard Andreasson Mora 36,2 5 Ronny Jacobsen NOR 36,24 6 Niklas Karlsson Mora 36,27 7 Niclas Jacobsson Mora 36,43 8 Peter Jonsson 36,46 9 Erik Eriksson Mora 36,5 10 Lars...

Virpi Kuitunen and Sami Jauhojarvi won Saturday’s classic races in Saariselka, Finland Source: Skidsport.com/Glid Results Women 5 km classic 1 Kuitunen,Virpi 13:41,0 2 Saarinen,Aino-Kaisa +20,7 3 Majdic,Petra Slovenia +21,0 4 Sarasoja,Riikka +21,1 5 Lassila,Riitta-Liisa +23,9 6 Välimaa,Kirsi +26,0 7 Malvalehto,Mona-Lisa +33,5 8 Varis,Kaisa +35,6 9 Salonen,Satu +38,0 10 Chunli,Wang Kiina +51,1 11 Venäläinen,Kati +51,2 12 Smutna,Katarina +51,6 13 Fukuda,Nobuko Japani +51,7 14 Saari,Milla + 00:53,7 15 Ishida,Masako Japani +54,5 16 Natsumi,Madoka Japani +58,6 17 Ruotsalainen,Katja...

Petter Northug jr. beat Frode Estil by almost one minute in time-trial. Source: Langrenn.com The junior skiers in Meraker, Norway did a 4.1 kilometer long skate rollerski time-trial on Sunday. World and Olympic champion Frode Estil started as well and ended up 59 seconds (!) behind last year’s junior World Champion Petter Northug jr. – Petter is incredible in skating on rollerskis. I tried my best, but had no chance against him today. It was...

Some of the World’s best skiers raced in Muonio Finland on Saturday. Jens Filbrich of Germany won the men’s race and Kristina Smigun won the women’s race. The distance for men was 10-kilometer classic. German Jens Filbrich won ahead of teammates Axel Teichman, Scluetter and Angerer. Carl Swenson, USA was 29th, 1 minute and 29 seconds behind. Kristina Smigun of Estonia won the women’s 5-kilometer classic by 31 seconds ahead of Natalia Baranova of Russia....

Tobias Angerer and Irina Artemova were fastest in Sunday’s freestyle race in Muonio. Source: Skidsport/Glid Tobias Angerer of Germany won Sunday’s 15-kilometer freestyle race in Muonio, Finland. Teemu Kattilaskoski of Finland was second only .5 seconds behind and Saturday’s classic race winner Jens Filbrich was third. Axel Teichmann was 5th and Carl Swenson, USA was 20th. Irina Artemova of Russia won the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle r race 25 seconds ahead of hometown favorite Rita Liisa...

Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Valery Rodokhlebov won a classic time-trial for Finish national team skiers held in Saariselka this weekend. See the results! Source: Langrenn.com and xc-ski.de Sarinen won the women’s race and beat better known racers like Kaisa Varis, Satu Salonen and Virpi Kuitunen by more than thirty seconds. Results: Women 5,4 km: 1) Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 14.45,2 2) Kaisa Varis 15.17,8 3) Satu Salonen 15.22,5 4) Virpi Kuitunen 15.34,9 5) Johanna Pöllänen 15.46,5 6)...

More Details From The Swedish Sprint Opener Some excerpts from a Swedish season opener article by Unni Odegard. Source: Langrenn.com — by Unni Odegard Lina Andersson and Bjorn Lind won the Swedish season sprintpremiere. Norwegian Tommy Aasen surprised the Swedes and did well almost without any ski training. The season premier is over. At least for most Swedish skiers. The premier is always a little extra exciting. The nice weather in Mora “warmed up the...

The Finish ski team did sprint qualification races for the Düsseldorf World Cup season premier in the Vuokatti ski tunnel last weekend. Riikka Sarasoja won the women’s race and Jari Joutsen won the men’s event. Source: Skidsport.com Related article: Vermont Academy Takes Summer Trip To Finland Photo: Greg Harkay

Another weak winter shortens race to only 8.5 km Martin Bianchi, a Tierra del Fuego native, won this year’s edition of the Marchablanca on Sunday August 21st, crossing the line in 23 minutes, 14 seconds. On the women’s side, Sona Klikarova of either Slovakia or the Czech Republic (some confusion existed on her entry form) took the women’s race in 28:08. The normal 21 km circuit was shortened to 8.5 km due to poor conditions...

Australians win 2005 Kangaroo Hoppet The fifteenth Kangaroo Hoppet, Australia's international ski marathon, was held today in Falls Creek in north-east Victoria. Australia's Ben Sim became the first ever junior skier to win the 42km Freestyle event, ahead of Raul Olle from Estonia and Francois Soulie from France. Clare-Louise Brumley made it an Australian double, claiming back to back wins in the women's 42km race. The Kangaroo Hoppet is the opening race of the 2005/2006...