February 18, 2006 – Estonia’s Andrus Veerpalu won gold yesterday in the XC Men’s 15K Classic with Lukas Bauer (CZE) taking the silver and world cup leader, Tobias Angerer (GER) the bronze. Top North American was USA’s Kris Freeman in 22nd followed by Canada’s George Grey in 32nd.

Results

1 VEERPALU Andrus EST 38:01.3
2 BAUER Lukas CZE 38:15.8
3 ANGERER Tobias GER 38:20.5
4 ROTCHEV Vassili RUS 38:24.4
5 MAE Jaak EST 38:35.2
6 OLSSON Johan SWE 38:38.8
7 SCHLUETTER Andreas GER 38:44.7
8 TAUBER Martin AUT 38:49.5
9 NOVIKOV Serguei RUS 39:15.0
10 JAUHOJARVI Sami FIN 39:15.3

22 FREEMAN Kris USA 39:57.4
32 GREY George CAN 40:43.9
48 KERSHAW Devon CAN 41:42.7
51 FLORA Lars USA 41:53.1
52 JOHNSON Andrew USA 41:53.9
53 FREEMAN Justin USA 42:00.9
54 GOLDSACK Drew CAN 42:09.3
58 ROYCROFT Dan CAN 42:39.7