March 17, 2010 – Banff’s Graeme Killick was the Canadian champion for the second day in a row with a decisive 22-second victory over Thunder Bay’s, Chris Butler in the 15km skating event. Third place went to U.S. skier Brenton Knight of Alaska while Pate Neumann of Canmore Ski Club claimed the Championship bronze finishing in fourth. Drew Goldsack from Rocky Mountain Racers was the 4th Canadian, finishing a 10th of a second ahead of Foothills Nordic’s Kevin Sandau.

Etienne Richard of Skibec was the Junior Men’s champion as three new skiers topped the podium, with Steffan Lloyd and Patrick Stewart-Jones of Nakkertok capturing the silver and bronze medals. Whitehorse skier Knute Johnsgaard was just over a second off bronze finishing in fourth and Nakkertok’s Andrew Stewart-Jones was fifth.

There was some shakeup on the leader board as the women’s 10km skate races concluded today at the Haywood Ski Nationals. Two seconds separated the top three in the Junior Women’s class.

Foothills Nordic’s Brooke Gosling was crowned the 10km skate champion, with her teammate Shayla Swanson finishing second. Gosling skied a consistent race, leading throughout, and showed that she is one of the strongest distance skate skiers in the country, by adding another national crown to her two skate victories at the 2009 Haywood Ski Nationals.

Tuesday’s classic champ, Canmore’s Chandra Crawford grabbed the bronze medal by a less than a second margin over fellow Olympian, Madeleine Williams of Edmonton. Another Foothills Nordic skier, Sara Hewitt claimed fifth.

In the junior women’s races there was three new competitors on the podium as Annika Hicks of Canmore was the champion in an extremely close race, less than two seconds ahead of Rebecca Reid of Blackjack Ski Club. Stéphanie Drolet of Mont Ste. Anne was third only 0.3 seconds back, Michelle Workun-Hill of Nakkertok was fourth and local Whitehorse skier, Dahria Beatty, was fifth.

CCUNC Women’s champion today was Sarah Peters, from UBC finishing over a minute ahead of Carleton’s Alana Thomas with Mary Thompson of Laurentian finishing third.  On the men’s side Ottawa’s Carleton University filled the podium positions with Steffan Lloyd in first, Matthias Purdon in second and Whitehorse skier Colin Abbott third.

CCUNC results here.

Complete results here.