November 26, 2005 – Two-time Olympian Carl Swenson (Park City, UT), whose best results have come in skating races, raged through the final kilometers Saturday and finished 11th in a World Cup 15K classic technique race won by Germany’s Tobias Angerer.

Angerer was timed in 36:32.8 to edge Norway’s Jens Arne Svartedal by 1.7 seconds. Swenson, the former Dartmouth ski captain who was hobbled last season by two bouts with flu-like symptoms, was 45th at the 2.4K mark and 33rd at the 6K point. At 12.4 Ks, he was 18th as he stormed through the end of the race.

It is Swenson’s best result since Dec. 21, 2003 when he finished 11th in a 10K free technique race in Ramsau, Austria; he had three top-15s that season before battling sickness from last mid-December – coincidentally, at Ramsau – to the end of the season.

Defending women’s World Cup champion Marit Bjoergen of Norway stayed unbeaten by winning the women’s 10K CL; no U.S. women raced.

The so-called Nordic Opening weekend, which includes cross country, ski jumping and nordic combined in Kuusamo – above Finland’s Arctic Circle, concludes Sunday with skating races, a men’s 15K and women’s 10K.