Val di Fiemme: Another Championship gold for Norway

alt Norway's team won gold in the men's cross country 4x10km relay event at the Nordic Ski World Championship in Val di Fiemme on Friday, ahead of Sweden, with Russia in third place.

Racing for Norway: 1. Tord Asle Gjerdalen 2. Eldar Rønning 3. Sjur Røthe 4. Petter Northug (photo).

Friday, 01 March 2013 15:10

Posted in Section: Sport - Category: Athletics & Winter

Written by Rolleiv Solholm

Ullevålseter out of Sealine Rally

alt Norwegian motorbiker Pål Anders Ullevålseter broke a thigh bone and a thumb when he crashed out of the World Cup Sealine Cross Country Rally in Qatar on Thursday. ..Read more...

Another cross country win for Bjørgen

Norway's Marit Bjørgen won Sunday's cross country 10km pursuit to seal her fourth World Cup Final crown in Falun, Sweden. ..Read more...

Cross Country: Northug wins World Cup

alt Norway's Petter Northug won the 15km cross country pursuit on the last day of the World Cup Final mini-tour in Falun, Sweden on Sunday, and also securing the overall World Cup victory and the Crystal Globe. Norway completed a one-two-three in Sunday's race, as Finn Haagen Krogh and Martin Johnsrud Sundby came in second and third. Russia's Alexander Legkov finishes second in the World Cup overall, 180 points back, just 17 points clear of Italy's Dario Cologna in third. (NRK/Aftenposten) ..Read more...

New Norwegian cross country triumphs

alt Marit Bjørgen raced to victory in the women's 10km cross country classic mass start in the World Cup Final mini tour on Saturday to complete a Norwegian one-two-three in Falun with Therese Johaug second and Heidi Weng third...Read more...

More cross country gold for Bjørgen and Northug

alt Norway's Marit Bjørgen won the second stage of the women's cross country Word Cup final mini tour in Falun on Friday. Compatriot Petter Northug won the men's 3.3km prologue. ..Read more...

Cross Country sprint win for Northug

alt Norway's Petter Northug took an easy victory in the World Cup classic sprint at the season finale in Stockholm on Wednesday, ahead of compatriot Eirik Brandsdal. Russia's Nikita Kruikov came third...Read more...

Cross country win for Johaug at Holmenkollen

alt Therese Johaug led from start to finish to take victory on home snow in the cross-country skiing World Cup 30km freestyle mass start at Holmenkollen in Oslo on Sunday, in front of a crowd of 34,000. ..Read more...

Cross Country: Sundby 2nd at Holmenkollen

Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby had to settle for 2nd place in the men's the cross country 50km freestyle mass start at Holmenkollen in Oslo on Saturday. The race was won by Russia's Alexander Legkov. Team mate Ilja Tsjernousov placed third. ..Read more...

Cross Country: Birkebeinerrennet 2013

Norway's famous 54km classic ski-touring race, Birkebeinerrennet, is arranged today, Saturday, for the 71st time, with around 17,000 participants. The race starts in Rena and finishes in Lillehammer. Birkebeinerrennet has been organized since 1932. Until 1991 start and finish was every second year in Lillehammer and Rena. The last years the start has been permanently in Rena and the Finish line in Birkebeineren Skistadion at Li..Read more...