March 18, 2014 (Corner Brook, Newfoundland) – Race Day 2 at the Haywood Ski Nationals included a wide and wild variety of weather, pretty much any type of winter weather you could imagine from rain to powder snow, with a bit of sun and high winds thrown in to mix it around. A wax tech’s nightmare, especially on a classic day with temps from -4 to +4 deg. C.

The Junior Men’s event saw Scott Hill of Team Hardwood on the top of the podium with a commanding 27 second lead over Colin Foley of Nakkertok and Alexis Dumas of Skibec.

For the Junior Women it was another 2 medals for Whitehorse as Dahria Beatty won and Annah Hanthorn claimed bronze. It was a Nakkertok sandwich as Katherine Stewart-Jones finished 2nd.

In the Open classes Jesse Cockney had a narrow victory over his Foothills teammate Kevin Sandau with Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard in 3rd.

Emily Nishikawa captured Whitehorse’s 4th medal on the day with a narrow victory over Dasha Gaiazova of Mont Ste. Anne. Canmore’s Amanda Ammar was 3rd.

In the CCUNC classes, Frédéric Touchette led the way in the men’s race for Laval and Kendra Murray topped the women’s field for Carleton. CCUNC results

In the younger junior classes it was Quebec and Hollyburn claiming gold. Hollyburn topped the podium in the Jr Girls and Juvenile girls classes respectively with Katie Weaver and Annika Richardson, while Zachary Cristofanilli of Orford was the Jr. Boys champ and Antoine Laforte of Skibec won the Juvenile boys competition.

In the Juvenile Boys class there was notable finishes from Patrick McIlroy of Avalon Ski Club in Newfoundland, 4th  and Levi Nadlersmith from Downtown Ski Club, Manitoba in 5th.

It’s good to see some variety in the club names and the divisions in the top 10 of the age classes, showing that good things are taking place in development across the country.

Monday will be a rest day, with action resuming on Tuesday with interval start, skate races.

Just to keep the wax tech’s on their toes, the weather forecast is calling for a high of -12 deg. C. for Monday.

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