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 Norway’s cross-country queen, Marit Bjørgen, captured the first gold medal of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, when she won the women’s 1.3km freestyle sprint on Thursday. ““It’s a fantastic start for me. I usually win the bronze in the opening race,” Bjørgen remarked. This was Norway’s 100th Gold Medal in [...] Petter Northug of Norway won a men’s 50-kilometer cross-country World Cup race after sprinting past Pietro Piller Cottrer of Italy in the last 200 meters on Saturday. Marit Bjørgen won the women’s 30-kilometer race. Kristin Stormer Steira and Therese Johaug were second and third as Norwegians swept the top three positions. Source: USA [...] Norway’s ecstatic Marit Bjørgen said Thursday that claiming her third gold medal of the Olympic Winter Games in the women’s 4x5km cross-country relay was beyond her wildest dreams. The 29-year-old has enjoyed a stellar Games and anchored the Norwegian team to cross the line at Whistler Olympic Park in 55min 19.5sec, with Germany 24.6secs behind [...] Norway’s Marit Bjørgen admits she will have her work cut out on Friday as she bids to win her third medal of the Olympic Winter Games in the women’s 15km cross-country pursuit. The 29-year-old won gold on Wednesday in the sprint final having won bronze in the 10km freestyle last Monday, but many of the [...] Norway’s Marit Bjørgen won the Olympic Games women’s sprint classic on Wednesday as World Cup leader Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland took silver. Slovenia’s Petra Madjic, who was suffering from a painful rib injury, claimed bronze. Bjørgen was first home in a time of three mins 39.2sec with Kowalczyk second at 1.1sec behind and Majdic, who [...] Norway has won the men’s and women’s cross-country World Cup sprints, while American Andrew Newell finished sixth in the men’s race. Petter Northug finished in 4 minutes, 09.9 seconds in the men’s 1-kilometer race on Saturday, 1.2 seconds ahead of Germany’s Tobias Angerer. Jesper Modin of Sweden was third, 1.8 seconds behind Northug. Newell was [...] Norway’s Marit Bjørgen and Ronny Hafsås both won gold at the season’s opening cross-country World Cup at Beitostølen, Norway on Saturday. Hafsås won the 15km race and Bjørgen the 10km. Norway’s cross country Queen and Olympic medallist, Marit Bjørgen (29), admitted she had been very nervous ahead of the opener, but won women’s the 10km [...]  Petter Northug appears to be the man to beat in the Olympic cross-country skiing season which starts on Saturday in his native Norway. Northug, 23, rose to stardom with three gold medals at the 2009 world championships in the Czech resort of Liberec and hopes for similar success at the Vancouver Games which run [...] |
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