SkiO World Cup: Russians take top placings
Tatyana Oborina and Vladislav Kiselev, both Russians, are this year’s SkiO World Cup champions at the end of the Individual World Cup season, and Russia has won the Team World Cup with Sweden second. There were six indiv...
Dramatic win for Sweden’s women in ESOC Relay
A dramatic women’s Relay in Khanty Mansiysk ended in victory by 2 seconds for Sweden over Russia, at the end of a race where the lead changed hands several times. The men’s Relay resulted in a comfortable victory for the...
Marina Vyatkina: new Russian star
One new name has come really to the fore in the European SkiO Championships: 20-year-old Russian Marina Vyatkina. Bronze in the Sprint, Silver at Middle Distance, and now Gold in the Long race. It was a tight victory, by...
Favourites triumph in Sprint Relay
Sergey Gorlanov, Russia, won his third gold medal in three days and Alena Trapeznikova, her second, when they teamed together to win the European Championships Sprint Relay today. Victory was by 52 seconds over Sweden, w...
Second gold for Gorlanov in Middle distance
Russians Sergey Gorlanov and Tatyana Oborina were the winners of today’s mass-start Middle distance, a slow, tough and challenging race both physically and technically due in part to fresh snowfall. This was Gorlanov’s s...