Girls Shred Day

Cairngorm Snowboard Club in association with Snowsport Scotland and sponsored by Roxy, invite all skier and boarder girls to come along to the Girls Shred day hosted at Cairngorm mountain. The shred day is aimed at ladies/girls looking to learn basic freestyle skills and ride with like minded girls - THIS IS ...

Revised Entry Process for Courchevel Races

Snowsport Scotland would like to advise all racers attending, or intending to attend, the Childrens and FIS races in Courchevel in April, that the entry process for races has changed. Snowsport Scotland are no longer accepting entries to the races, however, all entries already made to the races through Snowsport ...

Alpine L1 Coach Pilot Course

Snowsport Scotland, England, Wales and BASI are currently working on a UK wide performance coaching pathway which will be recognised by all organisations. As part of this process BASI are running a pilot course for the new Alpine L1 on the 8-10 Feb at SNO!zone Braehead. The Level 1 Alpine Coach is designed for ...

Andrew Musgrave 2nd at Norwegian Championships

Snowsport Scotland would like to congratulate Andrew Musgrave on finishing 2nd in the 15K Freestyle (Skate) at the Norwegian Championships yesterday beating most of the Norwegian Team. Andrew is a member of the British Team and started competing with Huntly Nordic Ski Club.

Claire Jeffray Takes Gold at the Special Olympics

Snowsport Scotland would like to congratulate Claire Jeffray on her success at the Special Winter Olympics in Pila Italy earlier this month. Claire who trains with LSRA (Lothian Ski Racing Association) won Gold in the Slalom and came 4th in the Super G events. ...

THE LECHT OPEN

CANCELED / POSTPONED - Lecht 2090 Unfortunately the heavy snow forecast has not been heavy enough and the race organisers have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel the Lecht Open for this Saturday and Sunday. John Allan and the organising committee form Gordon’s Skiers have worked ...

More World Cup Points for Andrew Musgrave

In Toblach, Italy, today Aberdeenshire’s Andrew Musgrave finished 23rd in the freestyle sprint prologue, earning himself more World Cup points. Since he took Britain’s first ever cross-country World Cup points last weekend in the Tour’s opening race (the 3km freestyle where he finished 28th) ...

Andrew Musgrave achieves first World Cup points

Another milestone was reached yesterday in the British cross-country skiing programme when Andrew Musgrave from Aberdeenshire became the first Briton ever to earn World Cup points in cross country skiing. The annual “Tour de Ski” opened in Oberhof, Germany, yesterday with a 3.75 km freestyle ...

Avalanche Awareness Courses Winter 2012

During the winter of 2009/10, 30% of human triggered avalanches in Scotland were triggered by skiers and snowboarders. Last season, the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) teamed up with Snowsport Scotland to bring practical training sessions that were tailored towards Scottish skiers and ...

Andrew Musgrave achieves first World Cup points

The annual “Tour de Ski” opened in Oberhof, Germany, yesterday with a 3.75 km freestyle prologue. In a year with no Olympics and no World Championships, the Tour is the major event in the cross-country calendar this year. The world’s elite skiers will race nine times over 11 days in five venues in Germany and Italy, culminating in an exhausting race up an alpine slalom course. It is a test of both technical ability and endurance with no time to recover fully after each race. As part of the FIS (International Ski Federation) World Cup circuit skiers finishing in the top 30 of each race are awarded points with the winner of the most points becoming World Champion at the end of the season.

Britain has never sent a skier to the Tour de Ski before this season. The current British team are all young compared with the top skiers in the world as it takes years to build up the endurance needed for the sport. But following his steady improvement over the last few seasons Andrew Musgrave decided he was ready for the challenge and yesterday pulled off his best result so far in international skiing when he finished 28th out of 99 of the world’s best skiers. Going out second in the timetrial event (where the skiers set off at 30 second intervals, with the top seeds going last) he had nobody to gauge his progress against and conditions on the course were difficult with the previous night’s rain having iced over to leave a rough, glazed track. His time at the half-way mark stood as the fastest until the top ranked skiers went through and when he finished he knew he had had a good race - but then had to wait while 97 other skiers came over the line to find out whether he had broken the top 30 barrier.

After the race GB Head Coach, Roy Young, said that this race had been one of the main targets for Andrew for this season, but that in such a competitive field it is impossible to predict how a race will turn out. The Tour continues in Oberhof today with a 15 km race in the classic style before moving to southern Germany where the first of the sprint events will take place tomorrow.

Details of the Tour de Ski can be found here

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