Category Archives: British Nordic Development Squad

News about the British Nordic Development Squad and British Nordic Ski Team

More World Cup Starts

Following the last post about Alex Standen getting into the World Cup rankings we have more good news – Callum Smith has broken that barrier at a race in Pello, Finland.

Congratulations to Simon Platt of Lakeland Club who is also joining this group.

These Finnish races also saw PJ Barron & William Newman score their best ever FIS points & Sarah Young continue with her challenge of obtaining World Cup qualification

Andrews Compete in Dusseldorf

Club members Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young are continued their world cup campaigns this weekend in the sprint races at Dusseldorf.

They both competed in the Sprint qualification races on 20th December. Andrew Newell qualified first with covering the 1.5km route in 3:03.77. Andrew Musgrave took 68th place 19.99 seconds slower and Andrew Young took 70th place 20.63 seconds slower. This leaves them both just over 10% off the fastest qualifier. Continue reading