World Cup

November 30th, 2006 – The Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup events in Aosta and Cogne (both ITA) which were planned on Friday, 8th and on Sunday, 10th December are cancelled due to the lack of snow and the mild weather. The Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) and the Local Organizing Committee informed today the International Ski Federation that they couldn’t organize the World Cup competition, Sprint races in free technique in Aosta and Distances races...

Ostersund, Sweden, November 29. Lanny Barnes (Durango, CO) finished 15th today in the season-opening Women’s 15K Individual at the Ostersund World Cup. Barnes’ top-15 finish was a huge step for the US Women’s Biathlon Team. This was Barnes’ personal best World Cup finish, her first top 30 (World Cup Points scoring result), the best US woman’s finish since March 2005, and almost a perfect shooting race as she had but a single shooting penalty. “In...

The upcoming World Cup races in La Clusaz, France on December 15-16 might be moved to Geilo, Norway. Read why here. The schedule calls for 15/30-kilometer freestyle mass-start on Saturday December 15 and relay on Sunday 16 in La Clusaz, France. But lack of snow all over Central Europe makes it impossible to organize races there at this point. See live webcam from La Clusaz

KUUSAMO, Finland (Nov. 26) – Norway's Eldar Roenning and Virpi Kuitunen of Finland won rainy classic technique World Cup cross country races Sunday. Top American on the day was Kris Freeman (Andover, NH), who finished 33rd in the men's 15K CL. Roenning had a winning time of 38:35.2 with Vincent Vittoz of France, who had the fastest time through every checkpoint until fasing at the end, second in 38:51.1. Freeman finished in 40:28.4 Kuitunen led...

VIESSMANN FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Kuusamo/Ruka (FIN), Individual Start, 26th of November 2006 Strong Kuitunen and Roenning in Kuusamo Virpi Kuitunen from Finland and the Norwegian Eldar Roenning could celebrate the victory in the classic individual race on the courses in Ruka. After a second place yesterday the 30-year old Kuitunen could manage the victory in the classic individual race over 10 km. That was the 5th single victory in her career. She finished...

KUUSAMO, Finland (Nov. 25) – Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) each finished 12th Saturday in a fog-wrapped, classic technique sprint event, leading four U.S. cross country skiers into World Cup points. Norwegian Jens Arne Svartedal and Petra Majdic of Slovenia won their respective 1.2K finals. It was the second sprint race of the young season. Newell qualified second and tore through his quarterfinal heat, then led the semifinal heat before tiring...

That’s the Norwegian sprint coach Ulf Morten Aune’s opinion about the sprint World Cup course in Kuusamo, Finland Aune feels that this downhill is too big a part of the sprintcourse – It should have been more varied, says the coach. But he ensures that he and the skiers are doing their utmost to be as well prepared as possible. They can’t do anything about the course. – We are not favorites Norway cleaned up...

After the weekend in Swedish Lapland, the Cross-Country family will now be moving west to the north of Finland. The Nordic Opening, a joint World Cup weekend for all FIS Nordic disciplines will take place for the fifth time in Kuusamo (FIN) on 24th-26th of November. A true season opener for Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined, this long weekend will be the first and only time before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...

Petra Majdic from Slovenia and the Norwegian Jens Arne Svartedal won the today's classical Sprint in Kuusamo/Ruka. Americans Andy Newell and Kikkan Randall were both 12th in their respective races, Torin Koos 20th, Chris Cook 27th. David Chamberlain 80th. For the 26-year old Majdic it was the second World Cup victory ever after the victory last year in a sprint in Drammen (NOR). She finished clearly ahead of Virpi Kuitunen (FIN, 1.9 second behind) while...

VIESSMANN FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Gaellivare (SWE), Relay, 19th of November 2006 www.menzipics.ch/info/indexfisevents.html Quotes: Marit Bjoergen (NOR): “ I felt good today, better than yesterday and the skies were amazing. Before that race our team was the favourite and I'm happy now that we could realize it. For us, one of the important person in the race was Hilde. We are happy that she is back.” Claudia Kuenzel (GER): ” My race was quite...

Freeman 18th in Swedish World Cup GALLIVARE, Sweden (Nov. 18) – Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) opened his World Cup season Saturday with an 18th-place finish in a 15K freestyle race north of the Arctic Circle. WCSN.com will stream video coverage from Gallivare later this week. Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen – who left Utah's Soldier Hollow with four biathlon Olympic gold medals in 2002 – stormed through the final stages of the three-lap race to win...

VIESSMANN FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Gaellivare (SWE), Individual start free technique, 18th of November 2006 Katerina Neumannova from Czech Republic and the biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen from Norway won the World Cup individual race in the free technique in Gaellivare (SWE) . The 33-year-old Neumannova could celebrate her first World Cup victory today in Gällivare (SWE), which is situated nearly 100 km in the north of the Arctic Circle. This was in total the...

Gaellivare, SWE-Canada’s Devon Kershaw took a deep breath, convinced himself to finally relax, and welcomed the cold and hard conditions in Swedish Lapland to post a 15th-place finish in the men’s 15-kilometre skate-ski race in the opening World Cup event of the season for the Canadian squad in Gaellivare, Sweden on Saturday. The performance by the Sudbury, Ont. native, which marks the best-ever finish for a Canadian male in more than 10 years in a...

Startlist 10 km freestyle women 1 LUNDBAECK Emma SWE 10:30:30 121.40 nat 2 HANSSON Anna SWE 10:31:00 95.54 3 GRAEFNINGS Maria SWE 10:31:30 93.27 4 NYSTROEM Susanne SWE 10:32:00 85.98 5 BLECKUR Sofia SWE 10:32:30 85.68 6 INGMARSDOTTER Ida SWE 10:33:00 85.56 7 OLSSON Ida SWE 10:33:30 81.56 8 PERSSON Ulrika SWE 10:34:00 75.95 9 LINDBORG Sara SWE 10:34:30 62.32 10 EK Elin SWE 10:35:00 33.49 11 LONGA Marianna ITA 10:35:30 3 12 SMUTNA Katerina...

Exclusive coverage from the FIS Cross Country World Cup event from Gällivare, Sweden, will be available on WCSN via on-demand video to fans this weekend, starting Nov. 18, 2006. Past coverage of Cross Country events from Düsseldorf in October will also be available on

Biathlon skiers Bjorndalen and Berger will race for Norway The Norwegian skifederation has selected these 15 skiers to race the upcoming World Cup races in Gällivare, Sweden. Eldar Rœnning is in addition selected to race one of the classic legs on one of the relay teams.

After a very successful World Cup kick-off in the German metropolis of Düsseldorf, the next Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country event will take place in Scandinavia, Gällivare (SWE) this coming weekend 18th-19th November. Gällivare – situated about 70km north of the Arctic Circle — will be hosting the Cross-Country World Cup for the third time. “Everything is ready in Gällivare. We received some 35 cm of snow in the night from Saturday to Sunday on...

In the past year, a number of North American skiers posted unprecedented results in cross-country skiing. A gold medal for Chandra Crawford. Four World Cup victories, nine podiums and overall World Cup second place for Beckie Scott. Silver medals for Scott and teammate Sara Renner. US Olympic and World Cup bests for Kikkan Randall. A podium and three consecutive top-ten finishes for Andy Newell. Now, as we begin another four year cycle leading up to...

Cross country chief Ã…ge Skinstad is hinting that he will select Ole E. Bjœrdalen and Lars Berger for the Norwegian World Cup team for Gällivare next weekend. – I hadn’t expected that this race would go that well. I’m looking at the race in Gällivare as a chance to further fine-tune my shape ahead of the biathlon season, says Bjœrndalen. Bjœrndalen showed the spectators a fantastic finish on Saturday. – I have trained a lot...

Petter Northug will skip the World Cup races in Kuusamo at the end of the month. Petter Northug (Norway) is very excited ahead of the Norwegian opening races at Beitostolen this weekend. But the youngster has decided to not race the World Cup races in Kuusamo later this month. – The plan is that I will skip the World Cup in Kuusamo, November 24. – 26. I would have liked to race there as well,...