Bellingham & Paul Win Sprint X

The 2017 Sprint X at Lake Mountain has been run & won. Last year’s winners, local girl Katerina Paul and Sochi Olympian Phillip Bellingham put on a powerful display to take out the open 1st places. The Sprint X is an event that was created to target ski enthusiasts who love to sprint but adds plenty of extra challenge not found in normal ski racing, all on artificial snow.

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First race of the season! ✔

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Fresh & man-made snow covered the tight and interesting course. Skills and agility were definitely needed to navigate the surprisingly fun but tough course.

After the sprinting was done everybody joined in a somewhat random Dash for Cash (& other prizes). A very competitive field also gave the judges a tough choice in the ‘Best World Leader’ costume comp, again taken out by Ash Spittle (Kevin 07) with an honourable mention to Nick Montgomery.

Full results in PDF: SprintX-Results-2017

2017 AUS Rollerski Results

The 2017 Australian Rollerski Championships were held at Stromlo Forest Park in Canberra last Saturday April 8. Australian Junior Team athletes Stella Ajani and Jarrah Forrer each claimed double victories in the open Sprint and Mass Start events. The mass start races in particular saw a lot of close racing and tactics in play. In the U16 categories Lulu Miskin and Robbie Zeilic also made a clean sweep of both events, while in the U12 classes Anvi Gupta, Sarah Champion and Sam Johnson topped the podium. Full results are available in PDF format below.

• Rollerski Race Results 2017 – Sprint Qualification
• Rollerski Race Results 2017 – Sprint Finals
• Rollerski Race Results 2017 – Mass Start

A great video summary of the day has been put together by Kyrie Miskin, see below.

AUS-NZ Cup Wrap-Up 2016

The 2016 FIS Australia-New Zealand Continental Cup series concluded at the Snow Farm in New Zealand last weekend. US Ski Team athletes dominated the final events of the series, winning all six races, while Australian skiers Katerina Paul and Phillip Bellingham took out the overall series titles. Aimee Watson was the sole Australian to make the podium in an individual event at the Snow Farm, taking third place in the final 5km Freestyle.

2nd Chae-Won Lee (KOR) – 1st Liz Stephen (USA) – 3rd Aimee Watson (AUS)

Results from all the Snow Farm ANC races are available here on the FIS site:

The top 5 in the final ANC standings are as follows:

Women
1 – 403 points – Katerina Paul, AUS
2 – 314 points – Aimee Watson, AUS
3 – 240 points – Mary Rose, USA
4 – 220 points – Deedra Irwin, USA
5 – 181 points – Elizabeth Stephen, USA

Men
1 – 420 points – Phillip Bellingham, AUS
2 – 315 points – Nick Montgomery, AUS
3 – 285 points – Jackson Bursill, AUS
4 – 272 points – Mark Pollock, AUS
5 – 210 points – Ewan Watson, AUS

Falls Creek Australian Championship Results

Apologies for the delay, all the results from the Australian Championship and FIS Continental Cup races at Falls Creek last weekend August 20-21 are available via the my.race.result website:

• Freestyle Sprint – http://my.raceresult.com/57684/results
• Classic 10/15km – http://my.raceresult.com/57685/results

 

Official FIS results are available via this link:

Please note a small anomaly between the FIS points on the my.race.result site and the FIS site, due to two skiers finishing in the top 5 who were registered late for the current FIS point list. For Australian selection purposes, the results on the my.race.result site will be valid.

 

Australian Championship Results – Perisher

The first events of the 2016 Australian Open Championship for cross country skiing took place at Perisher on the weekend of August 6-7. On the women’s side Lilly Boland from Ulladulla claimed her first Open Australian title in the 5km Freestyle, while Kat Paul from Taggerty  added a second Classic Sprint title to her win in 2015. In the men’s Classic Sprint Mark Pollock from Canberra double poled his way to his first national victory, but it was the 10km Freestyle that raised the most eyebrows with 2010 Winter Olympian Ben Sim winning his first Australian Championship since 2011.

Full Results in PDF:

• 2016 AUS Classic Sprint Qualification
• 2016 AUS Classic Sprint Finals
• 2016 AUS Freestyle 5-10km

Pub to Pub Wrap-Up

Now that was more like it!

114 skiers fronted up at 11 am Saturday in sunny cool conditions and looking forward to a fast track – and it definitely delivered!  After what must have been a really tight battle Cameron Morton – returning to the event for the first time in 9 years – managed to hold out regular winner Ben Derrick by 10 seconds with the 3rd fastest time on record of 27:47, while his son Damen made it a family affair coming in 3rd.  And continuing the family tradition, Darcie Morton had a great race to win the womens event (and coming 8th overall!) in 31:28 with Jillian Colebourn coming 2nd in her first try at the event with regular participant Irene Dunn in 3rd.  And of course there were plenty of mini races with a lot of tight finishes.  Most importantly lots of happy faces at the end!

Results from the Pub to Pub website

Even a small laid back event like ours only runs with the help of a lot of people.  As always The General opened their doors to us to take registrations and provide the pre-race caffeine fix, while the Dinner Plain Hotel provided us with a great space for presentations.  A big thank you to Mt Hotham resort – as always the grooming crew of Greg, Noel and Neil deserve particular thanks for being able to present such a terrific trail given the way the season has panned out, and many thanks to all those who helped out on the trail patching efforts both this week and at other times during the season.  They also provide us with the essential support at the road crossing. Many thanks also to the Pub to Pub crew who only do one event a year but keep coming back year after year and always get the job done, and done very well. And a big thanks to sweep patroller Simon Head – another ingredient we couldn’t operate without.

AUS Junior Championship Results

The 2016 Australian Junior Championships were held at Perisher on July 30/31. Over 90 competitors took part in the events over the weekend, with the best conditions for Saturday’s Freestyle Sprint. The Otto Pinkas trophies for the overall Australian champions in the Open Junior class were awarded to Stella Ajani and Seve de Campo, both from Melbourne. The races were organised by NSWXC and ACTXC on behalf of Ski & Snowboard Australia.

Open Junior champions Stella Ajani and Seve de Campo

Full results for all age classes on both days of competition are posted here in PDF format:

• Freestyle Sprint Qualification Results: 2016 AUS Junior Sprint TT Results
• Freestyle Sprint Final Results: 2016 AUS Junior Sprint Final Results
• Classic Distance Results: 2016 AUS Junior Distance Results