On the second day of competition at Junior Nationals in Fairbanks, Alaska, the home division won three out of six relays; one  in the J1 boys category and again in both the girl’s and boy’s OJ divisions. Norway’s guest teams won both J1 relays and the New England girls claimed a 44-second victory in the J2 girl’s race.

J2 3×3.3 k Relay

Alaska’s Jake Bassett, Tristan Sayre and Max Donaldson won the J2 boys 3×3.3 k by over 30 seconds in a time of 29:53.4. Intermountain took second (30:30.0) and the New England boys finished third (30:40.7).

In the J2 girls division, New England’s Katharine Ogden, Leah Brams and Julia Kern blew the competition out of the water, winning the 3×3.3 k in 34:01.0, 44 seconds over Alaska. The Rocky Mountain girls claimed third place (35:10) to round out the podium.

OJ 3×3.3 k Relay

Alaska’s Forrest Mahlen, Vanya Rybkin and Logan Hanneman posted the fastest course time of the day in 28:00.6 to beat the Midwest’s lineup (Christopher Parr, Jan Ketterson and Ben Saxton) by 13 seconds. Rocky Mountain’s Tucker McCrerey, Charlie Von Thaden and Max Scrimgeour finished third (28:40.7).

Celia Haering, Stephanie Kirk and Hannah Boyer continued the Alaskan OJ domination in the girl’s relay, besting Intermountain by 16 seconds. Rocky Mountain’s squad took third.

J1 3×3.3 k Relay

The guest team from Lillehammer, Norway — Martin Thon, Sjur Slettom and Mattis Stenshagen — won the boy’s J1 age class in 28:13.1 over Rocky Mountain’s Keegan Swirbul, Evan Weinman and Cal Deline. New England’s squad took third overall (for the second American finish) 39 seconds back.

The story was the same in the girl’s race; Norway’s Lotta Weng, Tiril Weng and Lisa Kvamme beat Intermountain’s Laurel Fiddler, Maggie Williams and Annika Miller by four seconds. The Midwest claimed third.

Complete results.

On the first day of racing at the 2013 Junior Nationals in Fairbanks, Alaska, Norwegian Mattis Stenshagen led three NTG Lillehammer teammates in the top five of the boys 10 k freestyle race at Birch Hill, winning in 26:34.2.

A 16-year-old J1, Stenshagen topped Alaska Pacific University’s Logan Hanneman, the first OJ, by just 3.2 seconds. Martin Thon of Norway was third overall (second J1), 24.9 seconds back. Ben Saxton of F.A.S.T. Performance Training was the second OJ, fourth overall (+25.3). The third Norwegian, Sjur Slettom was the third J1 and fifth overall (+30.0).

In the J2 boys 5 k, Max Donaldson (AK/NSCF-FXC) won by 17.0 seconds in 13:30.0. Koby Gordon (NE/SMS) was second and Jake Bassett (AK/AWS) placed third (+27.5).

J1 top five

1. Mattis Stenshagen (Norway) 26:34.2*

2. Martin Thon (Norway) +24.9

3. Sjur Slettom (Norway) +30.0

4. Ian Torchia (MW/Rochester) +40.8

5. Tyler Foulkes (NE/SMS) +55.3

OJ top five

1. Logan Hanneman (AK/APU) +3.2

2. Ben Saxton (MW/FAST) +25.3

3. Eli Hoenig (NE/CSU) +38.7

4. Jack Hegman (NE/UVM) +38.9

5. Patrick McElravey (FW/Auburn) +44.5

*Overall J1/OJ winner

J2 top five

1. Max Donaldson (AK/NSCF-FXC) 13:30.0

2. Koby Gordon (NE/SMS) +17.0

3. Jake Bassett (AK/AWS) +27.5

4. Tristan Sayre (MW/FAST) +37.5

5. Bill Harmeyer (NE/Mansfield) +43.1

Complete results

Paddy Caldwell (USA) placed 9th in the 20km freestyle at the Norwegian Junior National Championships.

Caldwell finished 1:51.1 behind winner Magne Haga (NOR). Haga won the event by 54 seconds over Håvard Solås Taugbøl (NOR).

Jack Novak was 19th for the U.S., Forrest Mahlen was 41st and Ben Saxton  45th.

Lars Hannah was 89 in the 10k.

In the women’s 15k, Lucy Newman was 45th and Jesse Knori 49th.

Cara Piske was 28th in the women’s 10k and Madison Keefe 34th.

Results

On the final day of racing at the Junior World Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic, the men’s and women’s relays didn’t disappoint – with plenty of excitement on Sunday in the women’s 4 x 3.3 k and a definitive victory in the men’s 4 x 5 k.

Sweden’s women won the former, with Julia Svan, Sofia Henriksson, Jonna Sundling and Stina Nilsson, rising from second to first on the last leg and edging Russia by 2.2 seconds to win in 35:41.1. Just 0.4 seconds back at the final exchange, Nilsson outsprinted Russia’s Nadezhda Shuniaeva to the finish. Shuniaeva and her teammates, Alisa Zhambalova, Natalia Nepryaeva and Anastasia Sedova, took silver and Germany (Laura Gimmler, Katharina Hennig, Julia Belger, Victoria Carl) was third (+50.3) after holding that position throughout the race.

In the men’s relay, Russia’s Alexey Chervotkin, Artem Maltsev, Roman Tarasov and Dmitry Rostovtsev rebounded from slipping to fourth after the second leg to finishing first, 18.7 seconds ahead of Norway (Bjørn Vidar Suhr, Simen Hegstad Krueger, Magne Haga, Haavard Solaas Taugboel). Rostovtsev sealed the victory in 45:35.5 and Sweden (Oskar Svensson, Marcus Ruus, Oscar Ivars, Rasmus Hornfeldt) was 52.2 seconds back in third.

The Americans finished 10^th in the women’s relay with Heather Mooney, Mary O’Connell, Emily Hannah and Corey Stock. They were 2:43.9 back from the winners and largely skied in the 10^th position throughout.

The Canadian women (Maya MacIsaac-Jones, Anne-Marie Comeau, Cendrine Browne, Frederique Vezina) were 13^th (+4:36.4) after rising from 15^th following the first leg.

The U.S. men placed 12^th with Logan Hanneman, Ben Saxton, Kyle Bratrud and Sawyer Kesselheim. They rose as high as ninth after the second leg and finished 2:14.6 behind the winners. Canada’s Alexis Turgeon, Zeke Williams, David Palmer and Raphael Couturier were 15^th (+3:20.3) of 19 teams.

Women’s results

Men’s results

Twenty-year-old Sergey Ustiugov of Russia is back on top. After sweeping the 2012 Junior World Championships in Erzurum, Turkey, Ustiugov claimed his first U23 world title on Thursday, beating Russian teammate and World Cup staple Evgeniy Belov, 22, by 19.7 seconds Thursday to win the men’s 15-kilometer freestyle in Liberec, Czech Republic.

Less than a week after his second World Cup appearance in La Clusaz, France, where Ustiugov helped Russia’s B-team place sixth in the 4 x 7.5 k relay, he posted the fastest time of 35:44.1 in the individual start.

German World Cup and Tour de Ski competitor Thomas Bing was third, 42.4 seconds back. Great Britain’s World Cup starter Andrew Musgrave, 22, placed fourth (+56.5) and Damien Tarantola of France was fifth (+1:09.6).

In the women’s 10 k, Norway’s Ragnhild Haga captured the victory by nearly 30 seconds. The 21-year-old World Cup skier completed the three-lap course in 27:50.4, 29.5 seconds faster than Anastasia Slonova of Kazakhstan in second. Italian Debora Agreiter was third, just 0.4 seconds back from Slonova, and Tuesday’s classic sprint runner-up, Sandra Ringwald of Germany was fourth (+30.4). Norway put three in the top six with Tuva Toftdahl Staver in fifth and Kari Oeyre Slind in sixth. Russia swept seventh through 10th.

Leading the North Americans, Caitlin Patterson of the U.S. (Craftsbury Green Racing Project) was 14th (+1:41.5). Sophie Caldwell (Stratton Mountain School T2 Team) followed in 17th (+2:05.5). On the men’s side, Erik Bjornsen (Alaska Pacific University/U.S. Ski Team) notched 15th (+2:00.3).

Other American results: Women: 29. Annie Pokorny (Middlebury), 42. Liz Guiney (UNH); Men: 39. Sam Tarling (Dartmouth), 50. David Norris (MSU), 54. Eric Packer (SMST2)

Canadian results: Women: 28. Heidi Widmer (AWCA), 37. Annika Hicks (AWCA), 40. Andrea Lee (NDC-Thunder Bay), 43. Marlis Kromm (AWCA); Men: 63. Colin Abbott (YES), 71. Patrick Stewart-Jones (AWCA)

Men’s 15 k results

Women’s 10 k results

Second in Monday’s Junior World Championships classic sprint, Germany’s Victoria Carl, 17, was the fastest around Wednesday’s two-lap, 5-kilometer freestyle course in Liberec, Czech Republic, winning the individual start in 12:35.3. She topped Austria’s Teresa Stadlober by 4.3 seconds and third-place finisher Anastasia Sedova of Russia (+11.4).

Making it into the top 15, Cendrine Brown, 19, of Pierre-Harvey National Training Centre (CNEPH) was 15^th (+40.3). At the halfway point, she was 19^th.

The second Canadian, Raphael Couturier (CNEPH) finished 24^th in the men’s 10 k freestyle. He was 1 minute and 25.2 seconds behind Russian winner Dmitry Rostovtsev, who completed the three-lap course in 23:32.5. Russia took the top two spots on the podium with Artem Maltsev in second (+16.8) and Germany’s Martin Weisheit was third (+17.6).

For the U.S., Forrest Mahlen of Alaska Pacific University (APU) led the way in 27^th (+1:32.2). Just 0.6 seconds later, Sawyer Kesselheim (Bridger Ski Foundation) was 29^th and Canada’s David Palmer (Black Jack Ski Club) placed 32^nd (+1:38.4).

Kyle Bratrud (Northern Michigan University) was 46^th, Ben Saxton (F.A.S.T. Performance Training) was 60^th and Canadians Zeke Williams (Nakkertok) and Scott Hill (NDC-Thunder Bay) were 53^rd and 62^nd, respectively.

Mary O’Connell of Dartmouth College led the American women in 33^rd (+1:05.1), Sloan Storey (University of Utah) was 45^th, Emily Hannah (Harvard University) was 51^st and Anika Miller (Payette Lakes Sports) was 52^nd.

CNEPH teammates Frederique Vezina and Anne-Marie Comeau placed 50^th and 53^rd, respectively, and Katherine Stewart-Jones (Nakkertok) was 58^th.

Women’s results

Men’s results

After posting the fastest qualifying times, Italian Frederico Pellegrino and Russian Elena Soboleva went on to win every heat right through the final on the first day of the FIS Nordic U23 World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic.

However, their victories were hardly blowouts. Pellegrino and Soboleva won their respective men’s and women’s 1.3 k classic finals by close margins over the second- and third-place finishers, both decided by photo finishes.

In the men’s race, Pellegrino edged Finland’s Juho Mikkonen and Evgeniy Belov of Russia in second and third, respectively. Soboleva topped two German women, Sandra Ringwald in second and Hanna Kolb in third.

Sophie Caldwell led the North American finishers in ninth. The Stratton Mountain School T2 Team (SMST2) skier qualified in fifth and went on to win her quarterfinal. From there, Caldwell placed fifth in her semifinal, 2.8 seconds behind Kolb, who won the heat.

No other North American women qualified. Liz Guiney (University of New Hampshire) was 36^th, Caitlin Patterson (Craftsbury Green Racing Project) was 38^th and Annie Hart finished (Dartmouth) 39^th.

Of the Canadian women, Marlis Kromm of the Alberta World Cup Academy (AWCA) was 32^nd, Heidi Widmer (AWCA) was 34^th and Andrea Lee (Thunder Bay National Development Centre) was 47^th.

Erik Bjornsen (Alaska Pacific University/US Ski Team) led the American men in 10^th, just ahead of Norway’s Tomas Northug, Petter’s brother. Bjornsen qualified in 16^th, won his quarterfinal and placed fifth in his semifinal, 2.8 seconds back from heat winner Alexander Wolz (GER), who ended up fifth overall.

Eric Packer (SMST2) narrowly missed qualifying in 34^th, David Norris (Montana State University) was 36^th and Skyler Davis (SMST2/USST) placed 53^rd.

Canadian Patrick Stewart-Jones (AWCA) was 39^th and Colin Abbott (Yukon Elite Squad) was 47^th. Andy Shields (NDC Thunder Bay) did not start.

Women’s results

Men’s results

The 23rd annual Fall Classic Rollerski Race hosted by the Cambridge Sports Union (CUS) took place on Sunday in North Andover, Mass. Harvard’s Chris Stock won the men’s 15 k in 36:45; Shane MacDowell (BNS) was second (38:39) and Frank Feist (CSU) took third (38:40).

Three women competed in the 15 k; Hanna Barnes (Harvard) won in 43:02 over CSU’s Maddy Wendt in second (45:41) and Anni Harvleux in third (47:18).

In the 7.5 k junior division, Max LaChance won the boys’ race 15 seconds ahead of Ryley Knox; Sean Skahen took third. Rebecca Smith won a closely-contested girls’ race in 21:52, three seconds ahead of runner-up Cate Brams. Meg Yoder rounded out the podium in third.

For full results, and photos check CSU’s race recap.

The Eastern Regional Elite Group currently taking place in Craftsbury, Vermont, completed an uphill time trial on Wednesday in foggy, slippery conditions along with area J2s, the Craftsbury Grean Racing Project and Green Mountain Valley School skiers. Ida Sargent (CGRP/USST) and Nils Koons (CGRP) took the top honors overall; Sean Doherty  and Issy Pelletier (Stratton Mountain School) were the first juniors to cross the line.

Mens Results

1. Nils Koons 16:35

2. Sean Doherty 16:43

3. Jordan Fields 16:55

4. Peter Hegman 15:57

5. Gordon Vermeer 17:00

6. Dylan Grald 17:03

7. Tim Reynolds 17:06

8. Dylan McGuffin 17:06

9. Pat O’Brien 17:07

10. Jack Hegman 17:22

11. Paddy Caldwell 17:28

12. Thomas Rabon 17:42

13. Adam Luban 17:45

14. Bryan Cook 18:11

15. Eli Hoenig 18:19

16.  Alex Howe 18:20

17. Michael Gibson 18:31

18. Ben Hegman 18:44

19. Jeff Tucker 18:46

20. Devlin Shea 18:55

21. Gino Pastore 19:01

22. Sam Reed 19:17

23. Jack Elder 19:52

24. Gavin McEwen 20:00

25. Henry Harmayer 20:19

26. Hamish McEwen 20:29

27. Max Lachance 20:33

28. Peter Mallery 20:35

29. Koby Gordon 20:51

30. Tommy Ernst 21:03

31. Adam Glueck 21:07

32. Charlie Greenberg

33. Ethan Dreissigacker 22:04

34. Noah Eckstein 23:00

35. Eric Lindhal 23:00

36. Rob Bradlee 23:18

37. Eliot Ketchel 24:02

38. Pat Lawler 24:10

39. Xavier Miller 24:40

Womens Results

1. Ida Sargent 19:57

2. Caitlin Patterson 20:01

3. Clare Egan 20:47

4. Issy Pelletier 21:05

5. Amy Glen 21:18

6. Maria Stuber 21:45

7. Hallie Grossman 22:12

8. Olivia Meyerson 22:23

9. Heather Mooney 22:25

10. Nina Armstrong 22:55

11. Zoe Snow 23:09

12. Riley Douglas 24:08

13. Kiersten Miller 24:11

14. Julia Kern 24:18

15. Maile Sapp 24:32

16. Kaitlin Miller 24:38

17. Cate Brams 24:55

18. Alyssa Likely 25:10

19. Charlotte Cole 25:16

20. Alexandra Shafner 26:27

21. Hadley Moreau 27:15

22. Anika Williams 27:51

23. Lauren Gillott 28:16

24. Ani Miller 29:49

25. Emily Halpern 30:02

26. Maddie Strasser 31: 25

Complete results: NNF.

The Western REG started this week in Park City, Utah, with 0.79-mile, 1,039-foot climb up Agony Hill. Emily Hannah (Steamboat Springs WSC) won the girls’ time trial by over a minute in 17:45.3, besting Hannah Peterson (Durango NSC) in second. Kelsey Phinney (Boulder Nordic JRT) took third.

Cal Deline (Ski & Snowboard Club Vail) took the win in the boys’ race in 14:49.9, 43.2 seconds ahead of Kyle Breling (Park City Nordic). Charlie Von Thaden (Steamboat Springs WSC) came in at +1:08.9 for third along with Jackson Hill (Summit NSC) in fourth, who is listed in the results with the same time.

Girls Top 5

1. Emily Hannah (SSWSC) 17:45.3

2. Hannah Peterson (DNSC) 18:47.7

3. Kelsey Phinney (BNJRT) 20:11.7

4. Mary O’Connell (SSWSC) 20:31.0

5. Haley Piske (SSWSC) 20:43.1

Boys Top 5

1. Cal Deline (SSCV) 14:49.9

2. Kyle Breling (PCN) 15:33.1

3. Charlie Von Thaden (SSWSC) 15:58.9

4. Jackson Hill (Summit NSC) 15:58.9

5. Tucker McCrerey (Summit NSC) 16:06.4

Complete results