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CRAFTSBURY OUTDOOR CENTER NEWS~ 2017 MARATHON

January 31, 2017 by Kait Miller Leave a Comment

Press release from Craftsbury Outdoor Center January 29, 2017:

We had over 500 skiers toe the line for the 36th annual Craftsbury Marathon, presented by Fairpoint Communications. True to the spirit of the event, we had competitors who were putting on a bib for the first time to 4-time Olympians: the Marathon is a celebration of skiing in New England, a celebration of winter!
Racers completed 1, 2 or 4 laps of the challenging 12.5k course, with prizes for overall and age/gender groups.

In the BKL 1 Lap, Orion Cenkl and Miley Bletzer led the group home. 2 lap BKLers were paced by Charlie Purcell of GMVS and Ava Thurston and Quincy Massey-Bierman had a battle as they tied after 25k! Vermont High Schoolers completed 1 lap, with U32’s Stephen Looke taking the win on the boys’ side, and his teammate Emma Curchin winning for the Raiders on the girls’ side.

1 Lap men were all bested by Leo Paul Grandbois, of Biathlon Estrie. Notable too was the finish of Dan Cnossen, 2014 Paralympian. The sit-skier was second to Grandbois, on a course that features way more climbing and descending than any over course Cnossen would face in international competition. The 1 lap women’s event was won by GRP skier Kaitlynn Miller.

Recently crowned 30k classic National Champ Ben Lustgarten took the men’s 25k event handily, while Canadian Sheila Kealey took the win for the women.

4-time Olympian and New Hampshire native Kris Freeman took the win by 6 minutes over his Ski and Snowboard Club of Vail teammate, Tad Elliott. It’s Freeman’s 3rd win at the marathon, and the granite stater accomplished this victory double-poling, on skate skis. Mansfield’s Nordic’s Emily Stitt’s women’s 50k win made up in dominance whatever it may have lacked in finish drama. The former Middlebury College skier lead the women home in 3:08.

Thanks to everyone who joined us, and thanks to our generous sponsors:
Fairpoint Communications
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A fantastic finish to NENSA's Popular races at The A fantastic finish to NENSA's Popular races at The Henchey Memorial New England Club Relay
Championships.
@craftsburyoutdoorcenter not only put on another first rate show, but they also put together nine (!) complete teams for the Club relay. This effort (and a third place finish in the Nat'| Champ relay) jumped the Craftsbury squad from third to first in the year long Club Score.
With 44 teams in the 4×5km relay we present 7 victorious teams:

<100 years Men
SSWSC (Steamboat)
Barbier, Benjamin 
Magill, Henry 
Norris, David 
Jones, Trey

>100 years Men
NWVE
Burnham, Chris 
Enman, Eli 
Clayton, Thomas 
Hollenbach, Jake 

<100 years Mixed
Mansfield Nordic Club 
Maccurtain, Rye 
Page, Emma 
Linseisen, Anders 
Cobb, Virginia 

>100 years Mixed
GMVS
Rodgers, Colin 
Paluszek, Mikaela 
Ketchel, Elliot 
Donavan, Jessie 

>200 years Mixed
NWVE
Graves, Sara 
Pribram, Sarah 
Darling, Eric 
Thurston, Tom 

<100 years Women
GMVS
Graziani, Elizabeth 
Harrington, Mary 
McIntosh, Beth 
Greenberg, Brooke 

>100 years Women 
NWVE
Enman, Acadia 
Bolduc, Jessica 
Hollenbach, Liz 
Good, Cipperly

We also had a proud squad of Zak Cup Age group winners on hand!
Stay tuned for more details of the amazing Popular skiers we had during this 2023 season.
It's snowing right now and there is more racing tomorrow at Craftsbury and April 2nd at @cochrans_nordic_cross
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