After three weeks of intense training, I am enjoying an easy week of training on my own before the team meets up again Ruhpolding, Germany next week. Our training camps normally last 3 weeks, but this year we decided on a 7 week Europe camp in order to maximize one on one coaching time and [...]
I just finished up my first real summer races of the season here in Ostersund, Sweden. We competed in a 12k cross race on Friday, sprint race on Saturday and a pursuit on Sunday. Overall I was pretty pleased with my performances here. I was able to work on some of the new techniques that [...]
I’m packing up my bags today and am taking off for a seven week Europe camp tomorrow. I will spend the first two weeks of the camp training in Ostersund, Sweden and the next five weeks training in Germany. My last block of training went pretty well in Lake Placid, minus one sizeable mistake at the [...]
I just finished up my first week of a training of my three-week training block. I was back to Jericho for a few days in the beginning of the week to get a little more time training on the loop over there. When I’m in Jericho, my training is really ski-specific so that I can [...]
Tim Burke is a member of the U.S. Biathlon A Team, and has already qualified for the 2010 Olympics based on his results from last year. In 2008-2009, he finished 25th overall in the World Cup standings, with two top-ten finishes: eighth in the pursuit in Khanty-Mansijsk, Russia, and ninth in the sprint in Trondheim, Norway. He competed in the Olympics in Torino in 2006, placing 37th in the sprint. FasterSkier: You’re currently at a...
After two weeks of training in Lake Placid, Armin, Lowell, Jeremy and I moved over to Jericho, Vermont for our last week of camp. Jericho is home to the Ethan Allen firing range and possibly the best roller loop in the country. Despite the daily rains, training has been going well. Along with our normal training [...]
Pyeongchang, Korea – Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished 11th in what he called “the hardest 10K I have ever done” at the Biathlon World Championships. After a week of warm daytime temperatures and a full day of rain yesterday that destroyed much of the snow, few athletes expected to compete. Somehow, the organizers were able to spread their 2,000 cubic meters of stored snow over a 2.5K course to allow the competitions to proceed...
Antholz, Italy – Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) continued his rise back to top form Saturday as he moved from 15th position at the start to finish 11th in the final World Cup Pursuit competition before the Biathlon World Championships in February. According to US Biathlon Development Coach James Upham, “Tim is back. This is a course that suits him very well and that showed. He is skiing very fast again (with the sixth fastest...
Jay Hakkinen changes with Tim Burke in the Mens Biathlon 4×7.5km Relay Final of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games. The two men hope to be part of the team that wins the first U.S. Olympic medal in the sport of biathlon in 2010. As the men’s 4×7.5-kilometer biathlon relay started at the 2006 Olympics, few could have guessed what would happen in the first leg of the race. American Jay Hakkinen skated into the...
Oberhof, Germany – Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK) could have been happier, but not much. Hitting nine out of ten targets in world class time, Hakkinen finished 17th in the ultra competitive Oberhof World Cup Sprint, with a time of 26:55.8, one second behind 15th place and just ten seconds out of tenth. The result moves Hakkinen into 26th place in the overall World Cup ranking and qualifies him for the Mass Start competition on Sunday....