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 ...

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 has had a solid if not spectacular few days. Stages 2 to 5 were all in his less preferred classic ski style but though he didn’t reproduce the results of the first day he did show that he has the stamina to compete in this most gruelling of all cross-country events. Today he again finished in the top 30 of the world’s elite skiers, only 6 seconds back from the current Tour leader. This qualified him for the knock-out heats of the sprint and he found himself skiing head-to-head with Norway’s legendary Petter Northug as well as one of Russia’s formidable sprint team. For the first half of the 1.3km race Andrew was skiing in 2nd place, on the tails of a Finnish skier but going into the second lap the Norwegian and Russian pulled ahead along with an Italian skier and Andrew found himself out of the quarter-finals.

As the Tour moves on to the 7th stage, a 35km freestyle race from Cortina to Toblach with 312 metres of climbing over a mountain pass, more than 20 of the original 99 starters on day 1 have packed their bags and gone home. But Andrew shows no sign of running out of energy and is looking to improve his standing.

Results can be found on http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=19199

with more information on http://www.bnds.org.uk/

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