Subject:
Spillane Wins Nordic Combined World Cup B
Date:
Sunday, December 10, 2000 4:53 PM
U.S.
Ski Team News Bureau
http://www.usskiteam.com
Sunday,
Dec. 10, 2000
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SPILLANE
WINS NORDIC COMBINED WORLD CUP B
Dayton
Takes Third
SOLDIER
HOLLOW, Utah (Dec. 10) Johnny Spillane
(Steamboat Springs, CO),
looking
to solidify his chance for World Cup starts,
came out of eighth
place
after jumping Sunday and won a nordic combined
World Cup-B event
in
snow on the 2002 Olympic cross country trails.
Matt Dayton
(Breckenridge,
CO) was third.
Spillane
was eighth Saturday in the 90-meter jumping at
Utah Olympic
Park
and started 2:38 behind Norway's Amund Johnsen.
However, he quickly
moved
to the front of the pack and went on to win by
23.5 seconds over
Denis
Tishagin of Russia.
Dayton,
who won Friday's sprint event - the first of
three World Cup-B
contests
in Utah before the tour moves to Calgary at
midweek, was 28th
in
jumping, starting 3:58 behind Johnsen. rocketed
to third place, just
39.6
back of Spillane, who had competed a week ago in
a World Cup
contest
in Finland and been 22nd before coming home when
poor snow
forced
cancellation of four World Cup competitions in
Ramsau, Austria,
and
Predazzo, Italy.
Kristoffer
Erichsen (Steamboat Springs, CO) was 14th and
Carl Van Loan
(Webster,
NH), a distant 51st in jumping, 5:03 out,
finished 18th.
Dayton
had the fastest 15-km of the day; Spillane had
the third-fastest;
Van
Loan was the fourth-fastest; and Erichsen was
seventh-fastest.
"It
was a good race for all of us," the winner
said. "I was tired
[Saturday]
from all the travel, but I felt so much better
today. It was
snowy
and raining, but the track was good and fast.
"I
was gonna go to the start and see how I felt,
all the time moving
into
it [the 15-km]. But i was fourth after the first
[5-km] lap - I
caught
a lot of people quick," Spillane went on,
"and I just kept going.
I
knew I had a chance to do well, and when I was
able to keep up my
tempo,
I got to work my way into the race and keep
going."
The
schedule concludes its opening World Cup-B
weekend with a one-day,
mass-start
10-km race and 120-meter jumping Tuesday before
heading to
Calgary.
NORDIC
COMBINED WORLD CUP-B
Soldier
Hollow, UT - Dec. 10
(K90
jumping/15-km racing)
1.
Johnny Spillane, Steamboat Springs, Colo., (8/3)
2.Denis
Tishagin, Russia, (6/6) 23.5 seconds back
3.
Matt Dayton, Breckenridge, Colo., (28/1) 39.6
4.
Jochen Strobl, Italy, (30/2) 1:00.6
5.
Ivan Rieder, Switzerland, (19/5) 1:15.9
6.
Michal Psenko, Slovakia, (2/27) 1:24.3
7.
Remi Trachsel, France, (17/9) 1:24.4
8.
Andrej Jezersek, Slovenia, (14/11) 1:25.7
9.
Jens Gaiser, Germany, (10/21) 1:56.3
10.
Chris Holland, Canada, (16/18) 2:13.6
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14.
Kristoffer Erichsen, Steamboat Springs, Colo.,
(33/7) 2:16.6
18.
Carl VanLoan, Webster, N.H., (51/4) 2:36.1
27.
Jed Hinkley, Proctor, N.H., (55/10) 3:45.6
33.
Nathan Gerhart, Steamboat Springs, Colo.,
(22/39) 4:22.3
39.
Alex Glueck, Steamboat Springs, Colo., (54/34)
5:27.6
42.
Morgan Goodwin, Keene, N.Y., (38/46) 6:02.6
50.
Matt Cook, Saranac Lake, N.Y., (72/15) 7:10.0
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