Posted on June 12, 2011 by skichase2010
Nick Grimmer heading into the first jump during the Time Trail of the Lake Mountain Sprint X Nick Grimmer and Esther Bottomley won the first race of the season this last weekend at Lake Mountain. Both athletes are members of the Australian Ski Team and both raced at the 2011 World Championships in Oslo, Norway. [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2011 by AUS_XC
The cross country racing season is starting early this year, with Lake Mountain just announcing a new sprint event to be held on Opening Weekend. Following on the style of the Nordic-X events that have been held in Europe (and even at Perisher) the Lake Mountain Sprint-X on Saturday June 11 is set to feature [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2011 by AUS_XC
Ski & Snowboard Australia’s cross country skiing selection policy for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games has been updated to include the details of the selection events that will be held in August 2011. The full nomination and selection policy can be viewed here on the AOC website.
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Posted on May 6, 2011 by AUS_XC
The 2011 Australian Race Calendar is available for download: 2011 Australian Cross Country Race Calendar – Update June 9 As for 2010, most championship events will use an online entry system. When these entries are active links will be posted on the calendar page.
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Posted on April 23, 2011 by AUS_XC
The 2011 Canberra Rollerski Races in brief… Chris Darlington was the fastest male and Anna Trnka the fastest female in the 2.2km Classic Hill Climb. Ben Sim won the 10km Freestyle Criterium in a photo finish from Cameron Morton. Alex Gibson was the fastest male and Anna Trnka the fastest female in the 6km Freestyle [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2011 by AUS_XC
The National Rollerski Event is still on this Saturday April 23 in Canberra, however the location of the hill climb time trial has been changed. It will now be held on the bike path over past the back side of Black Mountain, starting down near the old Caswell Drive and finishing at the back of [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2011 by AUS_XC
After a break of many years rollerski events are set to be held in Australia again. On Saturday April 23 Ski & Snowboard Australia is putting on two events in Canberra – the Mt Stromlo Hill Climb and the CIT Criterium.
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Posted on December 30, 2010 by skichase2010
Happy with the results, went out hard from the start to try to catch Grimmer then worked into the second and third laps and felt good but feel I have even more to go so am looking forward to Oberweisental – Ewan Watson
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Posted on September 30, 2010 by AUS_XC
The annual Paddy Pallin Junior Nordics event was held on 25 September 2010 in Perisher Valley at the Sverre Kaaten Nordic Shelter. Even though it was quite late in the season, having been postponed from its usual early July spot on the ski calendar, there were 24 participants. This cross country ski event, sponsored by [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2010 by Birkebeiner
In support of the 2010 Kangaroo Hoppet, Tim Retchford and Tory Thomas from ‘Bodycraft’ are offering special massage rates for all Hoppet skiers and volunteers. Bodycraft is a proud supporter of the Australian XC Ski Team, and Tim and Tory would love to see as many skiers as possible before the Hoppet, to help people feel great and [...]
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