Nordic Worlds: Norway takes men’s relay
The Norwegian men’s cross country team defended their 2007 title today, winning the gold medals in the 4×10 km relay at the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic. Norway finished with a team time of 1:41:50.6, beating second-place Germany by 2.6 seconds. Finland was 43.9 seconds back to claim the bronze medals.
The U.S. team finished 13th, represented by Kris Freeman, Chris Cook, James Southam and Andrew Newell. Freeman was the first American to race, finishing the classic leg in fourth place.
“Freeman got off to a great start. Cook, who has mostly been training for sprint, skied really well despite the training he’s doing, so we’re going to make some changes there this year. James was our third skier and then Andy, and both those guys faded,” said U.S. cross country head coach Pete Vordenberg.
The cross country action in Liberec continues tomorrow with the women’s 30K relay.
Check out UniversalSports.com for all the highlights form Liberec presented by High Sierra.
The Norwegian men’s cross country team defended their 2007 title today, winning the gold medals in the 4×10 km relay at the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic. Norway finished with a team time of 1:41:50.6, beating second-place Germany by 2.6 seconds. Finland was 43.9 seconds back to claim the bronze medals.
The U.S. team finished 13th, represented by Kris Freeman, Chris Cook, James Southam and Andrew Newell. Freeman was the first American to race, finishing the classic leg in fourth place.
“Freeman got off to a great start. Cook, who has mostly been training for sprint, skied really well despite the training he’s doing, so we’re going to make some changes there this year. James was our third skier and then Andy, and both those guys faded,” said U.S. cross country head coach Pete Vordenberg.
The cross country action in Liberec continues tomorrow with the women’s 30K relay.
Check out UniversalSports.com for all the highlights form Liberec presented by High Sierra.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Nation | Time | FIS Points | |
| 1 | NORWAY | NOR | 1:41:50.6 | |||
| ROENNING Eldar | 26:28.3 | |||||
| HJELMESET Odd-Bjoern | 26:12.7 | |||||
| HOFSTAD Tore Ruud | 24:40.7 | |||||
| NORTHUG Petter | 24:28.9 | |||||
| 2 | GERMANY | GER | 1:41:53.2 | |||
| FILBRICH Jens | 26:03.4 | |||||
| ANGERER Tobias | 26:13.7 | |||||
| GOERING Franz | 24:50.1 | |||||
| TEICHMANN Axel | 24:46.0 | |||||
| 3 | FINLAND | FIN | 1:42:34.5 | |||
| HEIKKINEN Matti | 26:22.4 | |||||
| JAUHOJAERVI Sami | 25:55.3 | |||||
| KATTILAKOSKI Teemu | 25:31.2 | |||||
| NOUSIAINEN Ville | 24:45.6 | |||||
| 4 | ITALY | ITA | 1:43:13.0 | |||
| CLARA Roland | 26:56.5 | |||||
| CHECCHI Valerio | 27:17.9 | |||||
| PILLER COTTRER Pietro | 24:29.7 | |||||
| DI CENTA Giorgio | 24:28.9 | |||||
| 5 | CANADA | CAN | 1:43:21.9 | |||
| KERSHAW Devon | 26:03.9 | |||||
| GREY George | 27:26.6 | |||||
| BABIKOV Ivan | 24:55.3 | |||||
| HARVEY Alex | 24:56.1 | |||||
| 6 | SWEDEN | SWE | 1:44:03.7 | |||
| RICKARDSSON Daniel | 27:13.5 | |||||
| OLSSON Johan | 26:21.5 | |||||
| FREDRIKSSON Mathias | 25:09.6 | |||||
| HELLNER Marcus | 25:19.1 | |||||
| 7 | SWITZERLAND | SUI | 1:44:34.4 | |||
| PERL Curdin | 27:19.2 | |||||
| COLOGNA Dario | 26:16.2 | |||||
| FISCHER Remo | 25:18.1 | |||||
| LIVERS Toni | 25:40.9 | |||||
| 8 | ESTONIA | EST | 1:44:34.4 | |||
| MAE Jaak | 26:16.3 | |||||
| VEERPALU Andrus | 26:14.0 | |||||
| KOKK Kaspar | 26:47.7 | |||||
| REHEMAA Aivar | 25:16.4 | |||||
| 9 | FRANCE | FRA | 1:45:00.3 | |||
| ROUSSELET Alexandre | 28:16.2 | |||||
| GAILLARD Jean Marc | 27:26.8 | |||||
| VITTOZ Vincent | 24:55.1 | |||||
| JONNIER Emmanuel | 24:22.2 | |||||
| 10 | KAZAKHSTAN | KAZ | 1:45:35.4 | |||
| CHEREPANOV Sergey | 27:12.2 | |||||
| POLTARANIN Alexey | 26:49.3 | |||||
| VELICHKO Yevgeniy | 25:20.4 | |||||
| CHEBOTKO Nikolay | 26:13.5 | |||||
| 11 | RUSSIA | RUS | 1:45:55.2 | |||
| NOVIKOV Serguei | 27:15.2 | |||||
| ROTCHEV Vassili | 27:32.2 | |||||
| LEGKOV Alexander | 24:52.7 | |||||
| DEMENTIEV Eugeni | 26:15.1 | |||||
| 12 | CZECH REPUBLIC | CZE | 1:46:52.3 | |||
| JAKS Martin | 28:24.1 | |||||
| BAUER Lukas | 27:20.9 | |||||
| MAGAL Jiri | 25:48.5 | |||||
| KOUKAL Martin | 25:18.8 | |||||
| 13 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | USA | 1:47:25.5 | |||
| FREEMAN Kris | 26:20.2 | |||||
| COOK Chris | 27:47.6 | |||||
| SOUTHAM James | 26:19.2 | |||||
| NEWELL Andrew | 26:58.5 | |||||
| 14 | AUSTRALIA | AUS | ||||
| SIM Ben | 29:14.9 | |||||
| WATSON Callum | 29:55.6 | |||||
| MOCK Andrew | ||||||
| VAN DER PLOEG Mark | ||||||
| 15 | GREAT BRITAIN | GBR | ||||
| MUSGRAVE Andrew | 29:03.3 | |||||
| STANDEN Alexander | ||||||
| YOUNG Andrew | ||||||
| PLATT Simon James |
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