World Cup

The Norwegian Skifederation has just published which skiers they have selected for the sprint World Cup opener in Düsseldorf, Germany, October 22-23, 2005 Source: Langrenn.com The program: Saturday October 22, 0.8-kilometer freestyle sprint for women and 1.5-kilometer freestyle sprint for men. Sunday October 23, 6 x 0.8-kilometer sprint relay for women and 6 x 1.5-kilometer sprint relay for men. The Norwegian team: Women Marit Bjœrgen, Rognes IL Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Nybygda Ella Gjœmle, LYN Guro...

Marco Albarello, the Italian head coach has selected the following team for the sprint World Cup opener in Düsseldorf, Germany October 22-23. Source: Skitime.it: Men: Renato Pasini, Freddy Schwienbacher, Cristian Zorzi, David Hofer e Loris Frasnelli Women: Gabriella Paruzzi, Barbara Moriggl, Magda Genuin, Arianna Follis e Karin Moroder.

In January of the 2007 FIS has decided to create a circuit of 8 races called Tour de Ski 2007. The races will be carried out one each day from the 5th to the 14th of January and will be all count towards the 2006/2007 World Cup. The event wil consist of sprint races, classic distance races, and mass start races. For each race, skiers will win points and accumulate total time in competition for...

Source: Langrenn.com Here is how much money the Worlds best cross country skiers can make in each World Cup race in the 2005-2006 season. This is the international Ski Federation’s (FIS) pay schedule for the upcoming 2005-06 World Cup. 40,000 Swiss franc (CHF) is divided among the top ten in each individual race. World Cup skiers will typically in addition receive money from personal sponsors, equipment sponsors and/or other parties. (100 CHF = US $80)...

Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Norwegian sprint coach Ulf Morten Aune believes that many of the skiers will be skeptical to the first Tour de Ski. Race director in the International Ski Federation (FIS), Jurg Capol, believes however that most of the World Cup skiers will participate. Tour de Ski, cross country skiing’s answer to Tour de France will be organized for the first time in the 2006/2007 season in Central Europe. It...

Source: Langrenn.com and FIS Tour de Ski is cross country skiing’s answer to Tour de France and will be a part of the World Cup in the 2006/2007 season. Here is how it will look like. Stage structure Tour de Ski 2007) Date Day Place Type of race Laps 01.05.2007 (12.29.07/12.30.06) Friday Munchen (Olympia park) Prolog (women 3 km,=A0Men 4.5 km K) Single start;Start interval 15 to 30 Seconds. about. 1.5 km Women: 2 laps...

Source: Langrenn.com Start gates will be used in the upcoming season’s World Cup sprint races. False starts have been a problem in World Cup sprint races. FIS has therefore decided that start gates will be used in the upcoming season’s World Cup sprint races. The gates will most likely be similar to those used in downhill dual slalom events where the gates open automatically when the start gun goes off. The gates will hopefully be...

Source: Langrenn.com The International Skifederation (FIS) has asked the athletes what they would like the cross country World Cup to look like. Here are the answers. 41 athletes and team officials from 13 nations answered the survey that was conducted during the World Cup races in Norway and Sweden in March this season. 73 percent of those who answered are racers and 27 percent are team-officials (coaches and others). They want to have more races...

Source: Langrenn.com Norwegian newspaper VG and Langrenn.com reports that FIS has decided to make some major changes in World Cup sprint racing. 30 skiers will qualify from the prolog and two World Cup events will have prologs that are twice as long as the finals. VG’S headline was: FIS want to stop Norway Norwegian sprint coach Ulf Morten Aune was quoted saying: – I view it as recognition of the (Norwegian) skier’s performances that FIS...

Source: Langrenn.com Each nation’s World Cup quota for maximum number of skiers they can races in each World Cup race is reduced from eight to six starting next season. FIS just decided that each nation can only race six skiers in each race in the upcoming season’s World Cup races. The maximum number of racers in each event is also reduced from 87 to 71. The host nation will still be able to enter additional...

Source: Langrenn.com Many Norwegian male and female elite skiers had a very good season. A total of sixteen different skiers made the podium in international races this season. Chief of sport says that the XC team needs another $250,000 in order to plan as they need for the Olympic season. The Norwegian team met for season evaluation last week, and chief of sport Bjornar Hakensmoen is very satisfied with most of the performances. – It’s...

The Finnish team of Aino Kaisa Saarinen, Kirsi Vaelimaa, Riitta Liissa Lassila and ex-doping-convict Virpi Kuitunen, took control of the women's 4 x 5km relay to win the last World Cup race of the year in Falun Sweden. The Finns were leading by 16.5 seconds at the finish. With Marit Bjoergen on the anchor leg, Norway sprinted to second ahead of Russia with Julija Tchepalova. Italy was fourth, about 41 seconds behind Russia. No North...

The last World Cup race of the 2004-2005 season, a 4 x 10km relay in Falun, Sweden, saw the Norwegian men sprint to victory ahead of Italy as they did in the Nagano and Salt Lake Olympics. This time it was Tore Ruud Hofstad who sprinted ahead of Italy's Giorgio di Centa. Sweden was also in the mix, with Matthias Fredriksson skiing the anchor leg for the “home team.” Fredriksson came up just short of...

Norway's superstar Marit Bjoergen, already guaranteed the overall World Cup win for 2004-2005, decimated the field anyway in the final World Cup pursuit race in Falun, Sweden. Bjoergen skied away from second and third place finishers Katerina Neumannova and Julija Tchepalova to win the 7.5km + 7.5km double pursuit by 12.3 seconds.

Eugeni Dementiev of Russia came out the right side of a massive 13-skier sprint in the last individual World Cup race of the 2004-2005 season: a 2 x 15km double (or continuous) pursuit. http://www.fasterskier.com/racing2137.html for women's World Cup Finale.) http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=8200

Watch in live on-line on FasterSkier.com: The 2004/05 World Cup season concludes with 15 and 30-kilometer mass-start pursuit in Falun, Sweden on Saturday. Scott, Renner, Freeman, Grey and other North American will be on the starting line. Three skiers can win the men’s overall title while hometown favorite Anders Sodergren feels good and will give everything to fight for a victory in the season finale. The Swedish Ski Game in Falun is the final stop...

Source: Langrenn.com The International Ski Federation (FIS) has made some big changes in the World Cup schedule for next season. Vernon, British Columbia and Canmore, Alberta have a week of races in December, the Vasaloppet is included, and the season finally will be in Asia. The cross country World Cup season starts as normal with sprint races in Dusseldorf, Germany in October. The regular World Cup opening is again at Beitostolen, Norway. Individual classic race...

FORT KENT, Maine (March 15) – Steve Cook (LW-4; Salt Lake City) ignored a steady snowfall Tuesday to win the first race of the 2005 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships and take over the World Cup lead in the process. Cook, skiing next to last in the 26-athlete field, covered the two-lap, 10K course at the 10th Mountain Ski Center in an adjusted time of 29:00.3 with Norway's Nils-Erik Ulseth (LW-3) taking the silver medal...

-Canada’s McKeever grabs gold, Whyte takes bronze- Fort Kent, Maine-Two Canadian athletes, Brian McKeever and Shauna Maria Whyte, kicked-off the opening day of cross-country ski events with two podium performances at the Disabled Nordic Skiing World Championships in Fort Kent, Maine on Tuesday. Three categories were being contested in the first day of the weeklong competition. Short and middle distance events were held for men and women in both the cross-country and sit-ski divisions. McKeever,...

North American top sprinter’s last chance to hit it big this season is Wednesday’s sprint World Cup finally at Goteborg’s soccer arena Nya Ullevi. The race can as usual be watched live online here on Fasterskier.com Freestyle sprint at a soccer arena should be a new and exciting experiment for most of the World Cup skiers. Large crowds are expected to show up to watch Sweden’s new female sprint stars Emelie Ohrstig, Anna Dahlberg and...