Canada’s high-performance cross-country ski team continued to show they are one of the best sprinting nations in the world on Saturday as two Canadian men combined to finish ninth in a team sprint relay at a World Cup competition in Lahti, Finland. After watching Beckie Scott battle back into the top-5, and post her best result of the season on Friday, two Canadian men’s teams made their way to the start line trying to build...
Canada’s Beckie Scott was on a mission to capture her first World Cup podium appearance of the year, but the Olympic gold medallist came up short in the final heat and finished fourth, missing the podium by a hair in a sprint event in Lahti, Finland.
Rebecca reporting from the top of the world, or at least as we know it. We are up in our hotel above Oslo and have just completed dinner with the sun setting. Sharbel and Tabor are playing a little game of football in the hall, so I'm taking the opportunity to write to all of you and tell you about the race today. I had a 10:32 start time, so I arrived about 1:15 before...
OSLO, Norway (Feb. 28) – Back on the trails after their top 10 sprint results, Beckie and Sara finished 20th and 24th in the 30k race at the Holmenkollen, Oslo Norway W Cup. Milaine Theriault finished 48th. Julia Tchepalova of Russia won the women's 30K freestyle race Saturday at Holmenkollen by a minute over Italy's Sabina Valbusa with Rebecca Dussault (Gunnison, CO) 34th. In the men's 50K FR, World Cup leader Rene Sommerfeldt of Germany...
The Sprint Race In Drammen Was Great- See The Photos Great tracks, nice weather and 40,000 spectators made Thursday’s World Cup sprint race in Drammen, Norway a great event. The racers, coaches and FIS were all very excited. “Events like this is a great way of promoting cross country skiing. You want to go skiing after watching such a fantastic event†said Norwegian sprint coach Ulf Morten Aune. The men’s winner Havard Bjerkeli said: ‘The...
Drammen, NOR-Canada’s cross-country ski women, Sara Renner and Beckie Scott, not only welcomed team member, Milaine Theriault, back to the World Cup circuit on Thursday, but they also posted two top-10 results. Renner, of Canmore, Alta., nailed down her strongest sprint result of the season to lead the Canadian trio in Drammen, Norway. The 27-year-old, who qualified 11th for the final round of head-to-head heats with the top-16 athletes, after powering her way around the...
TRONDHEIM, Norway (Feb. 24) – Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT), sprint champion of the 2004 SuperTour, collected his first World Cup points Tuesday, finishing 25th in a freestyle sprint at the 1997 World Championships venue at Granaesen Park. Janusz Krezelok gave Poland its first World Cup victory in cross country, edging sprint world champion Thobias Fredriksson of Sweden, while Norway's Marit Bjoergen, the women's world champion, won her fourth straight sprint. Martin Koukal (CZE) finished an...
-Canada battles hard with the US in Umea World Cup-Â Devon Kershaw started for Canada as the relay team worked on gaining further experience at the World Cup level. Kershaw, from Sudbury, skied a strong first leg, finishing only 43 seconds off the lead and 50 seconds ahead of the US's Justin Freeman as Canada completed the leg in 14th. On the second leg it was George Grey matched against US speedster Kris Freeman, with...
Umea, SWE-Canada’s Beckie Scott kept pace with the world’s best finishing 11th on a gentle, yet challenging, World Cup track on Saturday in Umea, Sweden. Czech Katerina Neumannova won the women's 10K CL and Gabriella Paruzzi of Italy moved into the World Cup lead by finishing fourth. Canada’s cross-country ski queen, who forms a one-two Canadian punch in women’s competition with Sara Renner, of Canmore, Alta., crossed the line in the 10-kilometre classic cross-country skiing...
Live sprint races are a big hit in Europe. Skidsport.com (Sweden) reports that approximately one million Swedes watched Wednesday’s World Cup Sprint races around the Royal Castle in Stockholm. There were approximately 30,000 spectators at the event and approximately 930.000 (or about 15% of the entire population) chose to watch the races on television Eurosport television also had live coverage across Europe adding (many) millions to this number.
Stockholm, SWE-Canada’s Beckie Scott, who was in Canada last week to attend the Keskinada Loppet in Gatineau, Que., rejoined her teammates for a rare mid-week World Cup cross-country ski competition in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday. The Olympic gold medallist finished 10th in the 1.1-kilometre sprint. Norwegians Jens Arne Svartedal and sprint world champion Marit Bjoergen won the classic technique sprints Wednesday night around the Royal Palace. Scott was one of 16 athletes in the field...
A measly three World Cup sprint races has been conducted so far this season including the record early October sprint in Düsseldorf, Germany. Only two individual sprint competitions after that makes it hard for the Worlds best sprinters to showcase their skills and stay sharp and focused. More than sixty percent of the season is now happening in a three week timeframe. Norwegian sprinter Havard Bjerkeli has these comments: “The number of total competitions is...
OBERSTDORF, Germany (Feb. 14) — Former World Cup champion Julia Tchepalova won a 15K (7.5+7.5) skiathlon Saturday by 5.9 seconds over Norwegian Hilde G. Pedersen in the second day of racing at the cross country pre-Worlds. Tchepalova seems to be back on form after struggling early in the season. Wendy Wagner (Park City, UT), the lone American racing, was 56th. Beckie Scott did not race. She is at the Keskanada doing a sprint and a...
Local favorite Rene Sommerfeldt of Germany won Friday’s Double pursuit (15 k classic + 15 skating) in Oberstdorf, Germany in a fierce battle with Reto Burgermeister of Switzerland (2nd) and Lukas Bauer (CZE). The top three finishers skied an impressive classic leg and had a 35 seconds lead at the halfway point (15 kilometer). They continued their grueling pace in the skate part and no one was able to “ski them inâ€. Their lead was...
Katerina Neumanova (CZE) won the women’s 10 kilometer individual start skate race in La Clusaz, France on Friday. Julia Tchepalova (RUS) Was second and Sabina Valbusa was (ITA) was third. Beckie Scott of Canada returned to World Cup racing following an almost six week long training break and skied in to a good 11th place. Team-mate Sarah Renner again scored World Cup point with a 25th place. Wendy Wagner (USA) was 54th. The men’s race...
Fasterskier.com got a chance to ask US Ski Team Head coach Trond Nystad a few questions right after the incredibly hard and exciting 70 kilometer Marcialonga FIS World Cup and Marathon Cup race last weekend. This race was shown live from start to finish in many European countries and followed by 70,000 spectators – 35,000 of them in the finish area. “Trond, we have followed the Marcialonga World Cup and the excitement around it. Can...
The Marcialonga 70 kilometer classic Marathon race took place on Sunday, January 25th. The event was part of both the regular World Cup and the FIS Marathon Cup. This made for interesting duels between the best classic World Cup skiers and marathon specialists. The big question was in other words if the World Cup skiers could beat the double pole specialist? The answer was yes, but only by a hair. Rollerski double poling paid off...
U.S. SKI TEAM NAMES UNDER-23 CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM PARK CITY, Utah (Jan. 21) – Olympian Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK/Alaska Pacific University Nordic/U.S. Development Team) is among 14 skiers named to compete in the second Under-23 Cross Country Championships Feb. 11-15 on the Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow.
The German trio of Rene Sommerfeldt, Tobias Angerer, and Axel Teichmann are the top three, respectively, the overall World Cup. Kris Freeman is 25th.