Cross-country skiing continued on Tuesday at Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games with the women’s 5km and men’s 10km individual classic races. Those events present hard challenges as the races are long enough to require strength and endurance, while also, of course, demanding that competitors ski fast. Spectators had to wait a long time […]
Under heavy snowfall at Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Japanese cross-country skiers Ryo Hirose and Rin Sobue won the mixed team sprint classic today, securing the first gold medal of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. American athletes Finn Sweet and Renae Anderson opened Team USA’s medal count with an impressive silver at the end […]
· Alpine Skiing Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade will compete on expert-level slopes just across the lake from the athletes’ village · Franz Heinzer Piste will hold Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Alpine combined disciplines · Parallel Mixed Team Event will take place inside the village of Stoos STOOS, SWITZERLAND – “Everybody has a plan until they […]
Alexander Panzhinskiy and Olga Tsareva win the sprints at Cross-country Skiing Russian Cup KRASNOYARSK – As November gave way to the last month of the year, this Siberian city got even closer to the Winter Universiade 2019 that it will host from 2-12 March. One of the main Universiade venues – the Raduga Cluster […]
Nick Montgomery of Melbourne, Australia, lives overseas for three months a year to continue his cross-country skiing ambitions LAGO DI TESERO – Living in Australia, Nick Montgomery doesn’t get the time needed on snow to practice efficiently in cross-country skiing. So, for three months a year he leaves his homeland. “I come […]
A 100% Russian Podium ERZURUM – February 5th – The “mass start” marked the end of the cross-country skiing competition at this Universiade; 15 km for the ladies and 30 km for the men, all in freestyle. The contestants, as well as the organizers and all those who worked for the success of this […]
First Time Ever ERZURUM – February 3rd- Cross-country Mixed Relay. The Cross-country competition continued today in Kandili with the Sprint Mixed Relay event. A first, as it was the first time that we had such kind of event in our program. Indeed, the idea was to allow more countries to compete the Relay with […]
the Mens’ relay podium, Gold for France, Silver for Russia and Bronze for for Kazakhstan Gold For Russia and France ERZURUM – February 2nd- Cross-country Relay There could be no doubt that the Russian team would monopolize the relays, both men’s and women’s, so the only question was what countries would take the other steps […]
