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Vermont biathlete Susan Dunklee positioned a season-best twentieth Thursday to guide the U.S. contingent throughout a 15-kilometer World Cup occasion in Antholz, Italy.

The 34-year-old Barton product went 19 of 20 on the vary and held her floor through the snowboarding portion of the person competitors.

“I attempted to channel my internal Chloe Levins, who impressed the group earlier this week with a clear particular person on the IBU Cup,” Dunklee stated to U.S. Biathlon. “The final shot acquired away from me however I’m very pleased with my efficiency.”

Austrian Lisa Theresa Hauser claimed her first World Cup victory. The 27-year-old missed one shot.

Ukraine’s Yuliia Dzhima wound up second and was the one competitor to make each capturing try. France’s Anais Chevalier-Bouchet completed third.

Craftsbury Inexperienced Racing Challenge standout Clare Egan positioned forty seventh. Joanne Reid (71st) and Deedra Erwin (eightieth) rounded out the U.S. finishers.

Dunklee graduated in 2004 from St. Johnsbury Academy, the place she was a multi-sport star. She went on to compete in snowboarding, cross-country operating and observe and area for Dartmouth Faculty. After graduating, Dunklee joined the U.S. Biathlon growth program on the age of twenty-two in Lake Placid, N.Y.

She positioned fifth at 2012 biathlon world championships throughout the person race. After constructing extra momentum, she completed the 2017 season ranked tenth within the World Cup standings.

The Craftsbury Inexperienced Racing Challenge athlete captured the sliver medal within the mass-start occasion at 2017 world championships. Final 12 months she claimed a world championship silver medal throughout a dash in Antholz. Her father Stan raced for the U.S. Nordic group on the 1976 and 1980 Winter Video games.

Dunklee is 54th within the World Cup standings with 46 factors. Egan is tied for twenty fourth with 198 factors, whereas Reid is sixtieth with 31 factors. Norwegian teammates Marte Olsbu Røiseland (589 factors) and Tiril Eckhoff (583 factors) lead the standings.

Norway owns the highest 4 spots on the boys’s facet, led by Johannes Bø (618 factors), Sturla Holm Lægreid (564 factors), Tarjei Bø (511 factors) and Johannes Dale (499 factors). The highest U.S. males are Leif Nordgren (forty ninth, thirty first), Sean Doherty (61st, 19 factors), Craftsbury’s Jake Brown (67th, 11 factors) and Paul Schommer (77th).

Racing will resume Friday with a males’s 20k particular person occasion. Saturday’s motion will kick off with a 12.5k mass begin for the ladies. A males’s 4×7.5k relay will happen later within the day.

The ultimate races Sunday will likely be a 4x6k relay for the ladies and a 15k mass begin for the boys. The U.S. crew will then head to Pokljuka, Slovenia, the place world championships are set to start Feb. 10.

The boys’s world championships can have a 10k dash, a 12.5k pursuit, a 20k particular person, a 4×7.5k relay and a 15k mass begin. The ladies’s lineup features a 7.5k dash, a 10k pursuit, a 15k particular person, a 4x6k relay and a 12.5k mass begin. There may even be a blended 4×7.5k relay and a blended 6×7.5k relay.

ALPINEStarksboro’s Ryan Cochran-Siegle straddled a gate throughout Thursday’s coaching run however nonetheless has loads of momentum heading into two downhill occasions and one super-G showdown in Kitzbuehel, Austria.

The 2010 Mount Abraham graduate was the quickest skier through the first day of coaching, prevailing by 0.35 seconds. Travis Ganong (second) and Jared Goldberg (fifth) have been shut behind for the U.S. crew.

“I’m feeling snug with my snowboarding in the meanwhile, so something is feasible,” Ganong stated on Twitter. “(I) simply have to remain targeted and benefit from the trip.”

Cochran-Siegle will begin thirteenth throughout Friday’s downhill race, whereas Ganong will head out within the 14th spot. Bryce Bennett (18th), Goldberg (twenty fourth) and Sam Morse (51st) may even characterize the U.S. within the 55-skier area.

Cochran-Siegle made his first World Cup podium look earlier this season, putting second throughout a downhill occasion in Val Gardena, Italy. The subsequent weekend he positioned first in a World Cup super-G and was seventh through the downhill competitors in Bormio, Italy.

France’s Alexis Pinturault sits atop the boys’s heap with 778 factors, whereas Cochran-Siegle is tenth with 307 factors. Tommy Ford (18th, 200 factors), Ganong (forty ninth, 98 factors), Goldberg (63rd, 59 factors) and River Radmus (73rd, 39 factors) have additionally paced the U.S. squad. Ted Ligety (a hundred and first, 17 factors), Luke Winters (119th, eight factors) and Morse (one hundred and thirty fifth, two factors) every cracked the top-30 as effectively this season.

U.S. standouts Breezy Johnson and Jacqueline Wiles are racing in a ladies’s downhill Friday in Crans Montana, Switzerland. The leaders within the season-long standings are Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova (775 factors), Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin (715 factors) and Italy’s Marta Bassino (623 factors). Former Burke Mountain Academy star Mikaela Shiffrin is fourth with 565 factors.

Johnson (sixteenth, 180 factors), former College of Vermont star Paula Moltzan (18th, 161 factors) and Nina O’Brien (thirty first, 97 factors) are additionally trying to crack the highest 30. Keely Cashman (51st, 55 factors) is one other U.S. weapon together with A.J. Damage (72nd, 26 factors), Wiles (76th, 21 factors), Katie Hensien (89th, 13 factors), Isabella Wright (94th, 11 factors) and Lila Lapanja (103rd, six factors).

FREESTYLEShelburne’s Megan Nick returns to motion in Moscow, Russia after claiming first place final week.

The 24-year-old turned the primary U.S. lady to win a World Cup aerials occasion in three years, defeating two Olympic gold medalists and the reigning World Cup champ. She positioned second in a pair of World Cup occasions final season.

Nick will likely be joined by teammates Winter Vinecki, Ashley Caldwell, Kaila Kuhn, Dani Loeb and Megan Smallhouse. Chris Lillis, Eric Loughran, Justin Schoenefeld and Quinn Dehlinger will compete for the U.S. males.

CROSS COUNTRYStratton Mountain T2 Elite skier Jessie Diggins not too long ago turned the primary North American to win the grueling eight-stage Tour de Ski.

This weekend the U.S. squad will try to hold that scorching streak to Lahti, Finland for weekend racing. Saturday’s format will likely be a 15k skiathlon for the boys and a 30k skiathlon for the ladies. Sunday will characteristic a 4x5k ladies’s relay and a 4×7.5k males’s relay.

Diggins is the general World Cup chief with 932 factors. Russia’s Yulia Stupak is second with 802 factors, whereas U.S. skier Rosie Brennan (794) is third.

Not far behind for the U.S. are Hailey Swirbul (twentieth, 246 factors), Peru’s Sophie Caldwell Hamilton (twenty sixth, 152 factors) and Landgrove’s Katharine Ogden (thirty sixth, 98 factors). Teammate Julia Kern is thirty seventh with 97 factors, whereas Craftsbury’s Caitlin Patterson is 61st with 21 factors. Hannah Halvorsen has 16 factors and is 66th total.

Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov (1,297 factors) leads the boys’s rankings by 666 factors over fellow Russian Ivan Yakimushkin. France’s Maurice Manificat (588) is third.

The highest U.S. skiers are Gus Schumacher (twenty seventh, 148 factors), former Middlebury Faculty star Simi Hamilton (forty second, 90 factors) and Kevin Bolger (forty fifth, 81 factors). Their teammates embody Logan Hanneman (58th, 51 factors), former College of Vermont skier Scott Patterson (67th, 33 factors) and James Clinton Schoonmaker (69th, 31 factors).