CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: LampiÄ and Urevc third in team event in Oberstdorf
1. March, 2021
Oberstdorf – Cross-country skiers Anamarija LampiÄ and Eva Urevc won bronze in the women’s team event at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on Sunday. The pair fell short of gold by 3.46 seconds. Sweden’s Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling won the race.
Second place went to Switzerland’s Nadine Fähndrich and Laurien van der Graaff.
LampiÄ, who recently received the small crystal globe as the overall World Cup winner in the women’s sprint discipline, won the bronze medal in the women’s classical sprint in Oberstdorf on Thursday.
Gold rush continued for skiers
March 1, 2021
Norway’s winter sports stars had a day off along with all their rivals at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf on Monday. They could spend it admiring their piles of medals won during the weekend.
The Norwegian skiers and ski jumpers were once again way ahead of the pack, with a total of 17 medals after four days of competition. That includes six gold medals, the latest won by Therese Johaug in the women’s 15-kilometer skiathlon and team competition in sprints and combined jumping and skiing.
Norway also holds six silver medals, including one for Maren Lundby in women’s ski jumping, a mixed team of men and women jumpers, and in both the men’s and women’s sprint to Erik Valnes and Maiken Caspersen Falla respectively.
Feb. 28—Alaska skiers Scott Patterson and David Norris enjoyed top-of-the-world feelings Saturday at the Nordic World Ski Championships, where both turned in top-20 performances in the men's 30-kilometer skiathlon. Patterson finished 14th and Norris placed 17th to lead the American men. In the women's 15K skiathlon, Jessie Diggins led the United States in 15th place. Anchorage's Hailey Swirbul .
OBERSTDORF, Germany — Canadians Antoine Cyr and Graham Ritchie raced to a solid seventh-place finish at the Nordic World Ski Championships on Sunday. Ritchie, of Parry Sound, Ont., and Gatineau, Que., native Cyr posted a time of 15:18.80 in the skate-ski team sprint. The duo was 17.06 seconds off the pace set by gold medallists Erik Valnes and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. Ristomatti Hakola and Joni Maki of Finland finished second, and Russia's Alexander Bolshunov and Gleb Retivykh took bronze. On the women's side, Dahria Beatty of Whitehorse and Maya MacIsaac-Jones of Athabasca, Alta., finished 12th overall after failing to qualify for the finals. At 22 years old, Cyr and Ritchie were the youngest team in the men's finals on Sunday. “This is eye opening and very cool for us to have Canada right there in the mix,” Ritchie said in a release. “It hasn’t sunk in yet really, but we have the confidence and thought we could do it. It is
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