The official results of the Huntly Sprints are now available, Andrew Musgrave took first place in the Men’s event followed by Andrew Young and Callum Smith (a clean sweep for Huntly!) and Sarah Young won the Ladies event, Fay Potton took second and U16 Katy Homyer took 3rd .
The first Nordic Ski Race officials course to be run in the UK in 17 years was held at Huntly On the 2nd and 3rd May 2009. The course was presented by Jim Davidson one of only two FIS qualified Technical Delegates in the UK and run under the banner of Snowsport Scotland.
If competing at the Huntly Sprints isn’t enough for you, here’s Adam Pinney’s invitation to the SnowSport Englang Rollerski race and training weekends for 2009
SnowSport England Rollerski Events
Hardly it seems the winter season has wound up but the Huntly sprints are upon us. This year the weekend has been extended with a hill climb from Rhynie to the Clash car park for those wanting to make a full weekend’s rollerski entertainment.
Following the last post about Alex Standen getting into the World Cup rankings we have more good news – Callum Smith has broken that barrier at a race in Pello, Finland.
Congratulations to Simon Platt of Lakeland Club who is also joining this group.
These Finnish races also saw PJ Barron & William Newman score their best ever FIS points & Sarah Young continue with her challenge of obtaining World Cup qualification
Our Secretary, Peter Thorn as been beavering away during his last stint offshore. He’s produced the latest newsletter (available March Newsletter (PDF)) and also produced the 2009 GB Rollerski Series Calendar. So keep the weekends of 30/31 May and 12th September free to race at Huntly.
If you want more activity over the summer why not enter Ming’s Challenge Ming Event Details Saturday June 6th 2009.
Huntly Nordic Ski Club in collaboration with Snowsport Scotland will be hosting a Cross Country Ski Officials Training course on May 2-3 2009. The course take place at Huntly Nordic Ski Centre and the Clashindarroch forest and will be run by one of the two UK FIS accredited race officials, Jim Davidson.
For More Information please download the SNSC Nordic Ski Officials Course document.
Club members Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young are continued their world cup campaigns this weekend in the sprint races at Dusseldorf.
They both competed in the Sprint qualification races on 20th December. Andrew Newell qualified first with covering the 1.5km route in 3:03.77. Andrew Musgrave took 68th place 19.99 seconds slower and Andrew Young took 70th place 20.63 seconds slower. This leaves them both just over 10% off the fastest qualifier. Continue reading
Andrew Young And Andrew Musgrave entered the World Cup 15km Classic event at Davos this weekend. There were 83 entrants and the race was won by Johan Olsson of Sweden in 40:10. Andrew Young came in at 77th place 6:34 off the pace. Andrew Musgrave 68th place 4:23 off Olsson’s pace.
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The races started with time trial sprints over a “flat” 655m & 1135m “Hill” courses. These time were added together to decide the GB Series race.
2 Racers speed by
Remarkably, the first three places were taken by under 18 skiers (Andrew Young (HNSC), Andrew Musgrave (HNSC) and Alistair Duncan (CBNSC)) who just beat former Olympian Mike Dixon (CBNSC) into fourth place. Although a veteran, retired from competitive skiing and not in full training, it was a tremendous achievement for these young skiers to beat Mike and a healthy sign that we have some talented juniors coming up through the ranks. Skiers like Mike are always a target for these young skiers. The first lady home Sarah Young (HNSC) is also under 18. In second place was another Huntly skier Posy Musgrave, who has just moved up into the senior ranks. Fiona Crossley travelled up from Yorkshire to take third place and first female veteran despite a nasty tumble on the hill. Cairngorm brought a large contingent of young skiers who have greatly improved since their last visit to the Huntly races.
After the time trial races there were open knock-out races over the same sprint courses. With three skiers competing head to head some of the reaces were extremely competitive.
The semi-final with Alistair Duncan just holding off the last gasp challenge from Andrew Musgrave got the spectators excited for the final. In the final Mike Dixon took and held a lead of 5m from Andrew Young with Alistair Duncan struggling to keep with the early pace. However, on the final uphill with 250m to go, Duncan in a fantastic overtaking manoeuvre burst through a small gap while Dixon and Young tangled with each other. Duncan built a few metres lead which he held to win a hugely exciting final from the two pre-race favourites. The Novice knock-out final was won by Stuart Hamna (RAF) who has only been rollerskiing for a few weeks from Huntly new comer Megan Heathershaw. The day finished with a series of age group finals.
Thanks to the Huntly Nordic And Outdoor Centre (Aberdeenshire Council) for using their facility for the races.
Al Dargie’s video of 2006 sprints
HNSC Sprints Results 3rd June 2006
HNSC Rollerski Sprint Knock Out Races 3rd June 2006
