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unusual facts about cross country skiing



Anders Eide

Anders Eide (born 7 March 1971 in Snåsa) is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 1992.

Autrans

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, it hosted the biathlon, cross country skiing, Nordic combined, and the ski jumping normal hill events.

Claudia Nystad

Claudia Nystad (née Künzel, born February 1, 1978, in Zschopau) is a German top-level woman cross country skier.

Jaroslava Bukvajová

Jaroslava Bukvajová (born November 17, 1975, in Banská Bystrica) is a Slovak cross country skier who competed from 1994 to 2004.

Jessica Diggins

Jessica "Jessie" Diggins (born August 26, 1991) is an American cross country skier from Afton, Minnesota.

John Bower

The other North American winners are fellow Americans Kerry Lynch (1983 Nordic combined event) and Todd Lodwick (1998 Nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event), and Canadian Pierre Harvey (1988 50 km cross country skiing event).

Nataša Lačen

Nataša Lačen (born December 3, 1971 in Črna na Koroškem) is a Slovenian cross country skier who competed from 1993 to 2003.

Tungsten carbide

Roller skiing emulates cross country skiing and is used by many skiers to train during warm weather months.


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Boreal Loppet

In 2002, the idea of organizing a competition of long distance cross-country skiing (loppet) north of Forestville make his way trough the mind of Dave Delaunay, physical education teacher, and Eric Maltais, langage teacher of the local high school and both keen skiers.

Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park

The cross-country skiing, biathlon and cross country skiing part of the Nordic combined events were held there.

Combined

Nordic combined (skiing), the combination of cross country skiing and ski jumping as a single event

Haut-Folin

There is a 40 km of cross-country skiing ski resort.

Heikki Hasu

For his Nordic combined and cross country skiing successes, Hasu became the first Finn to be awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1952 (shared with Stein Eriksen, Torbjørn Falkanger, and Nils Karlsson.).

Helena Takalo

For her cross country skiing successes, she earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1977 (Shared with Hilkka Riihivuori and Walter Steiner).

Lake Silvaplana

In the winter, once the lake freezes, it is used for cross country skiing, walking trails, and kitesurfing on snow, with the famous Engadin Skimarathon crossing the lake annually.

Nicole Resch

Resch started cross-country skiing at the age of eight years and switched to biathlon ath the age of twelve years being trained by Manfred Geyer.

Nils Karlsson

For his success in cross-country skiing, Karlsson was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1952 (shared with Stein Eriksen, Torbjørn Falkanger and Heikki Hasu).

Prévost, Quebec

It is known for its cross-country skiing and for the Shawbridge Boys' Farm, a youth detention centre operated by Batshaw Youth Services.

Richard A. Lovett

He has also cauthored two running books with marathon legend Alberto Salazar, plus two books on bicycle touring and one on cross-country skiing.

Silberhütte

Langlaufzentrum Silberhütte, a cross-country skiing centre in the Upper Palatine Forest in Germany

United States at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Male skiers Marvin Crawford, Larry Damon, Lynn Levy, Theodore Farwell, and Mack Miller represented the United States in cross-country skiing.

Willy Bogner

Willy Bogner, Sr. (1909–1977), German Nordic skier, participated in cross country skiing and Nordic combined