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For the week of March 5 - 11, 2003

Sports

Baughman on Birkie podium again

Third in 51k race


Ketchum cross-country skier Brooke Baughman, 30, once again climbed the podium in North America’s largest Nordic ski race.

2003 Boulder Mountain Ski Tour queen Baughman, second in the Birkie last year, placed third in the women’s division of the 51-kilometer Johnson Bank American Birkbeiner Feb. 22 in Wisconsin.

Out of 3,416 skiers who started the 30th anniversary Birkebiner, Baughman (2.25:17) finished 48th overall behind women’s winner Lara Peyrot, 33, of Italy (2.24:21) and second-place Katerina Hanusova of Truckee, Cal. (2.25:12).

Although an Italian man won the Birkie for the third straight year, there were five Subaru Factory team men from the U.S. in the top 15—and Ketchum’s Jon Engen, 45, had a great finish in 24th place overall.

FIS Marathon Cup leader Gianantonio Zanetel, 34, of Italy won his second Birkie in three years in 2.10:57.6 and there ended up to be three Italians on the podium. Top American in fifth place was Nathan Schultz, 31, of Colorado in 2.12:08.

Engen clocked 2.19:55. Ketchum’s Muffy Ritz, 45, was second in her age class and the 16th woman in 2.41:19, good for 256th overall.

Two other Wood River Valley racers finished the 2003 Birkie.

Frances St. Onge, 30, of Hailey did the Birkie again and finished in 3.25:39, good for 16th in her age class, 77th among women and 1,103rd overall. Peter Maier, 62, of Ketchum clocked 3.59:34, 35th in his age class and 1,796th overall.

 

Yellowstone Rendezvous

Next on the American Ski Marathon Series circuit is the 24th annual Yellowstone Rendezvous on Saturday, March 8 at 8:45 a.m. on the 25k loop out of West Yellowstone, Mont.

New this year is wave seeding. You must pre-register by Thursday, March 6 at 12 noon. No registration on Friday. Distances are 50k, 25k, 105, 5k and 2k. You can do the full 50k marathon if you’re 18-and-older.

Register online at www.rendezvousskitrails.com

 

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