25-year-old Irina Khazova (RUS) claimed victory in the exciting 10 km individual start race in Davos. On the demanding course she finished in a time of 26:22.0, just 27.3 seconds ahead of Charlotte Kalla from Sweden.
Two time Olympian Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) finished seventh for a career best in the 15K freestyle Saturday during the World Cup in Switzerland.
It might not have been a repetition of last week’s results but given the conditions in Hochfilzen, Austria, Tim Burke still managed to show a good performance.
World champion Todd Lodwick will lead the field in a Continental Cup Nordic Combined event this weekend at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City and Soldier Hollow near Midway, UT.
A committee selects the wax of the day and all racers will be required to use it at the 2010 IBU Cup Team Trials, Dec 12-22 at Mt Itasca, MN and the Jr/Youth World Team Trials, Dec 19-22, 2009.
As of December 9th there are 5875 skiers registered for the Birkebeiner, Kortelopet and Prince Haakon events. Last year at this time there were 4433 skiers registered, an increase of 1437 for 2010.
The search for three cross country skiers and a baby to re-enact the 800-year-old legend that inspired the creation of the American Birkebeiner cross country ski race from Cable to Hayward, Wis. is over.
Astonished Swedish Cross Country ski teams looked on in amazement as the nine-strong British Nordic Ski Team took podium places not once, not twice but five times over the weekend (5-6 December) at the races in Idre, Sweden.
After many sleepless nights worrying about conditions, the organizers of the Davos World Cup finally had heavy snowfall earlier this week.
With the start of the World Cup season 2009/10, many of the FIS Continental Cups, the most important FIS series for developing young athletes have also started into the new winter season in the Northern hemisphere.
A bitter end to the Düsseldorf World Cup Sprint quarterfinals by Jöri Kindschi: A crash into a light barrier device.
After two podiums the US scored another Top10 result today at the relay competition in Östersund. Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen, Tim Burke and Jeremy Teela managed to finish 7th in the World Cup in Östersund.