Posted 15. March 2005 by Editor

The cross-country skiers will ski the world cup sprint final in skate at a soccer stadium in Sweden on Wednesday.

The qualification for men will start at 17:45 CET, women at 17:05 CET. The quarters will start at 19:30 CET.

The event will be 2 laps for qualification and each heat, a total of 1 100 meters.

For starters, the sprint cups are settled, Hetland has won in the men?s class, Bjoergen in the women?s class.

Link to the course, it looks very tight, the start will be important.

http://www.gotevent.se/skisprint/biljetter_banstrackning.asp

Start lists are yet not available, these are some preliminary comments:

The Norwegian men have dominated the last sprint events, yet these have all been in classic.

Now in skate, Thobias Fredriksson is among the favourites as are Hetland, Krezelok, Oestberg and Kjoelstad to name a few.

One Italian to watch may be Schwienbacher, maybe Jallai can get back in shape, he skied very well in Dusseldorf in October.

Others to watch may be Darragon, Zorzi, Swiss skiers Von Allmenn and Eigenmann, Anders Hoegberg and possibly Tobias Angerer.

In the women?s class Bjoergen was very strong in the 30k in Oslo last weekend, proving that she has recovered from sickness after the worlds.

Her rivals will likely be Kuenzel and Dahlberg

To watch: Scott, Renner, Strom Sollie, Manninen.

Prelim. start list, watch the names carefully as men and women trade every other spot.

Australien
Paul Murray






Canada
Drew Goldsack
Sara Renner


George Grey
Beckie Scott


Devon Kershaw






Danmark
Sebastian S?rensen






Estland
Erki Jallai



Priit Narusk



Anti Saarepuu










Finland
Jari Joutsen
Minna Apajalahti


Keijo Kurttila
Virpi Kuitunen


Lauri Pyyk?nen
Riita-Liisa Lassila



Pirjo Manninen



Kirsi Per?l?



Aino-Kaisa Saarinen



Kati Ven?l?inen





Frankrike
Roddy Darragon
Aurelie Jaeggy


Sylvain Fanjas Claret
Emelie Vina


Emmanuel Jonnier



Vincent Vittoz






Grekland
Lefteris Fafalis






Italien
Fabio Pasini
Arianna Follis


Renato Pasini
Cristina Kelder


Freddy Schwienbacher
Gabriella Paruzzi


Cristian Zorzi
Sabina Valbusa





Japan
Syouhei Honda
Nobuko Fukuda


Hiroyuki Imai
Madoka Natsumi


Yuichi Onda



Osamu Ymagishi






Norge
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Marit Bj?rgen


Tor Arne Hetland
Kine Beate Bj?rn?s


Tron Iversen
Ella Gj?mle


Johan Kj?lstad
Hilde G Pedersen


B?rre Naess
Vibeke Skofterud


Eldar R?nning
Guro Stroem Solli


Arve Sk?ren
Ingrid Urdal


Jens Arne Svartedal
Ine Wigern?s








Polen
Maciej Kreczmer
Justyna Kowalczyk


Janusz Krezelok






Ryssland
Ivan Alypov
Olga Moskalenko- Rotcheva


Dmitriy Egoschin
Julia Tchepalova


Vasiliy Rotchev










Schweiz
Peter Von Allmen
Flurina Bachmann


Christoph Eigenmann
Karin Camensch



Seraina Mischol



Laurence Rochat





Slovakien
Davorin Skvaridlo






Slovenien
Nejc Brodar
Maja Benedicic



Petra Majdic





Sverige
J?rgen Brink
Lina Andersson


Fredrik Bystr?m
Anna Dahlberg


Thobias Fredriksson
Sofia Domeij


Anders H?gberg
Elin Ek


Mats Larsson
Anna-Karin Str?mstedt


Bj?rn Lind
Emelie ?hrstig


Fredrik Usitalo



Fredrik ?stberg



Mikael ?stberg






Tjeckien
Martin Koukal



Dusan Kozisek






Tyskland
Tobias Angerer
Viola Bauer


Axel Teichman
Steffi B?hler



Manuela Henkel



Claudia K?nzel



Evi Sachenbacher





USA
Torin Koos



Andrew Newell



Zach Simons










?sterrike
Martin Stockinger
Barbara Feichtner


Harald Wurm










Nationella gruppen
Jerry Ahrlin
Sofia Bleckur


Daniel Cornelius
Marlene Dahlberg


Andreas Domeij
Anna Ellfors


Peter Ed?n
Mariana Handler


Mathias Fredriksson
Madelene Holmgren


Rikard Grip
Moa Larsson


Kalle Gr?fnings
Jenny Limby


Andreas Hamlund
Britta Norgren


Martin Isaksson
Susanna Nystr?m


Niklas Karlsson
Ulrika Persson


Michael Larsson
Mariana Rydqvist


H?kan L?fstr?m
Jenny Wissting


Petter Myhlback



Andreas Svanebo