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Two Top-10s in Team Relays
MALLES, Italy (Feb. 29) - The U.S. relay teams pumped their way to the finish Friday with the men landing seventh and the women ninth in the final cross country event of the 2008 FIS Nordic Junior World Championships.
Methow Valley Nordic Ski Team's Sadie Bjornsen (Winthrop, WA) went all out during her round, coming in with the third fastest time in the second leg of the race.
Sophie Caldwell (Peru, VT), Ida Sargent(Orleans, VT) , Alexa Turzian (Sun Valley, ID) made up the rest of the women's relay team that came in 2:08.9 behind the winner, Norway.
Finishing seventh in a field of 20, the U.S. men finished 2:04.0 back from Russia, who won gold.
The week of international juniors competition was highlighted by Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation's Noah Hoffman (Ketchum, ID) who finished 12th in the 10K race Monday, and also Dartmouth College's Sargent who placed 12th in the 1.3K sprint Saturday.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
2008 FIS Nordic Junior World Championships
Malles, ITA - Feb. 29, 2008
Classic/Free Relay
Men's
1. Russia (Feller, Sedov, Caranichev, Shakirzianov), 59:06.1
2. Germany (Dotzler, Bing, Marschall, Tscharnke), 59:06.3
3. Kazakhstan (Matviyenko, Alexandrov, Gridin, Starostin), 59:41.8
4. Norway (Ziesler, Holund, Oestberg, Roethe), 59:49.9
5. Japan (Shimizu, Lenting, Kashiwabara, Tanaka), 59:50.3
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7. USA (Kevin Cutts, Townshend, VT/Northern Michigan University, Noah Hoffman, Ketchum, ID/Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, Reid Pletcher, Hailey, ID/Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, Max Treinen, Anchorage, AK/Alaska Winter Stars/University of Alaska Anchorage) 1:01:10.1
Women's
1. Norway (Brun-Lie, Johaug, Oestberg, Kristoffersen) 41:50.1
2. Sweden (Brodin, Svensson, Larsen, Falk) 41:51.1
3. Finland (Heinanen, Niskanen, Annila, Lahteenmaki) 41:54.1
4. Russia (Medvedeva, Usatova, Maralskaia, Tanygina) 42:33.2
5. France (Locatelli, Lanoe, Dabudyk, Barthelemy)
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9. USA (Sadie Bjornsen, Winthrop, WA/Methow Valley Nordic Ski Team, Sophie Caldwell, Peru, VT/Stratton Mountain School, Ida Sargent, Orleans, VT/Dartmouth College, Alexa Turzian, Sun Valley, ID/U.S. Ski Team/Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation) 43:59.0
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