FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 2017
2017 North American Rollerski Biathlon Championships
After a week of training at the venue including an early morning run up the hill to the range, 100 pushups and a lot of combination training [skiing/shooting] , on Saturday and Sunday, the US Biathlon Association held the annual NorAm Rollerski Biathlon Championships at the challenging venue in Jericho Center, Vermont. Minnesota was represented by 18 Biathletes, 15 who traveled from MN plus Raleigh Goessling, currently in Maine,formerly from Esko; Leif Nordgren, with the US Team formerly from Marine on the St Croix and Jake Brown, with the US X Team formerly from the Twin Cities. Paul Schommer and Bill Bowler from Wisconsin also participated.
Results are online at http://www.eabiathlon.org/
On Saturday all classes did a Sprint Race followed on Sunday by a Mass Start for the Senior Women and Junior/Senior Men. For the other classes on Sunday was a Pursuit race with 5 sec interval starts based on the previous days finish.
Participating from MN: Senior Men and finish places Leif Nordgren 5th in Sprint, 7th in Mass Start Paul Schommer 7th & 4th Jakob Ellingson, 10th & 12th Vasek Cervenka 11th & 11th-[Note: Vasek is a Youth racing up to Seniors] Bill Bowler 13th & 15th Jake Brown 14th & 16th Raleigh Goessling 16th & 17th Senior Women Siena Ellingson 7th & 10th Junior Men Cam Christiansen 1st in Jr Sprint, 18th in Mass Start [Cam raced up to Seniors in Mass Start] Junior Women Halcyon Brown 3rd in Sprint and 3rd in Pursuit on Sunday Youth Men Garrett Beckrich 9th & 2nd Youth Women Emma Stertz 2nd & 2nd Boys Sam Stertz 6th & 8th Matej Cervenka 8th & 11th Frank Gangi 11th & 9th Girls Lucia Wyland 2nd & 4th Kaisa Bosek 3rd & 2nd Stormy Hegg 5th & 5th Annika Viren 6th & 6th Elsa Viren 7th & 10th
Photo: All Minnesota podium: Lucia Wyland, Kaisa Bosek, Stormy Hegg