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No Brits at the xc World Cup this weekend (partly due to cost as at £5k a world cup the team has to prioritise which races they do), but members of the team were racing in both Norway and Sweden last weekend (1st weekend in december) and they put in some good performances. A full report can be found here:
http://www.bnds.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=534:multiple-successes-for-britain-in-scandinavia&catid=2:news&Itemid=4

At Idre Sarah Hale competed in the youth women’s race (17- 18yrs) and finished 3rd in the prologue, Her semi-final was very aggressive and collisions with other competitors meant a spot in the B-final, which she won. She said the B-final finally felt like how she had wanted to ski the whole race. She finished 23rd overall (including seniors) with 210 FIS points.

Sarah Young flew the prologue “My skis were so fast I didn’t have time to hurt”, qualifying for the heats in 7th position. She finished third in her quarter final, after a little argy-bargy at the start, unfortunately missing out on a lucky loser place into the semis. She scored her season's best of 154 FIS points.

Prologue (juniors and seniors)
Pos Bib Name YoB Country Time FIS points
1 31 NILSSON Stina 1993 SWE 00:02:18.22 67.48
2 33 FALK Hanna 1989 SWE 00:02:19.42 77.90
3 38 DAHLQVIST Maja 1994 SWE 00:02:20.62 88.32

7 65 YOUNG Sarah 1989 GBR 00:02:28.29 154.91

23 2 HALE Sarah 1995 GBR 00:02:34.64 210.04

Senior Finals
1 51 NILSSON Stina 1993 SWE
2 52 FALK Hanna 1989 SWE
3 53 DAHLQVIST Maja 1994 SWE

13 57 YOUNG Sarah 1989 GBR

Alex Standen had a prime prologue, finishing in a gutting 33rd position, only 7.85 seconds off the winner and a whisker's length of 0.6 seconds off qualifying for the heats, once again highlighting the depth of men’s field.

Prologue (juniors and seniors combined)
1 186 ERIKSSON Johan 1990 SWE 00:02:01.23 48.89
2 183 BRYNTESSON Robin 1985 SWE 00:02:01.77 54.24
3 187 ERIKSSON Gustav 1991 SWE 00:02:02.29 59.38

44 226 STANDEN Alexander 1990 GBR 00:02:08.86 124.42

Sunday’s race was a 5km classic time trial for women and 10km for men. The temperatures plummeted overnight and Sunday was a bright and clear -170C. This was Fiona Hughes’ first race of the season, having just finished term at university on Wednesday. Fi finished in 8th place and scored 119 FIS points which qualifies Fi to race world cups. Sarah Young found breathing the cold air a little tough, but finished in 16th place and scored 180 FIS points. Alex also found the cold difficult, but felt the race went pretty well. He finished in 45th place with 134 FIS points.

The two Andrews were racing Norwegian cup races in Gaalaa, but due to the excessive cold the distance races were cancelled and only Saturday’s sprints went ahead. Team Viedekke (the Norwegian team who Andrew Musgrave skis with) kindly agreed to wax Andrew Young's skis along with Andrew Musgrave's and, as at Gallivare, the two had good skis for the competition. Almost identical skis it turned out - Muzzy skied the course in 3:44.5 while AY was just 0.2 seconds slower. This put them both well up the high quality field in 11th and 12th respectively. Unfortunately neither managed to progress from their qtr finals, both started strongly but faded in the finish. The results have not been published on the FIS site yet, but informal calcs suggest both should have scored mid 60s FIS points, which, if confirmed would be AY’s best sprint result.

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The Gaalaa sprint resulst have finally appeared:

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Time FIS Points
1 212 3420376 GLOEERSEN Anders 1986 NOR 0:03:37.9 29.88
2 216 3420961 KROGH Finn Haagen 1990 NOR 0:03:38.4 32.63
3 217 3421164 SKAR Sindre Bjoernestad 1992 NOR 0:03:39.2 37.04

11 224 3220002 MUSGRAVE Andrew 1990 GBR 0:03:44.5 66.23
12 258 3220016 YOUNG Andrew 1992 GBR 0:03:44.7 67.33

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