AUSXC team for season 2024/2025

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AUSXC team for season 2024/2025

by Katerina Paul • 02.12.2024

Photo: Modica/NordicFocus.

With the winter season well underway, it is time to announce the Australian cross country ski team, anotherwise known as AUSXC, for season 2024/2025.

In a press release from Snow Australia, announcing the 27 athletes who are on this seasons AUSXC team:

“The Snow Australia Selection Comittee is pleased to confirm and announce the selection of athletes to the 2024/2025 Cross Country Skiing National Team. Twenty-seven athletes will take their place in the World Cup, Continental Cup, U23 and Junior teams, including four Winter Olympians and three athletes making their team debut. Two additional discretionary selections are being considered, pending the submission of Individual Performance Plans.“

“Major events for the team during the upcoming northern hemisphere winter include the 2024/25 World Cup series, the 2025 World Championship in Trondheim (NOR), the 2025 World Junior & U23 Championships in Schilpario (ITA), and the 2025 World University Games in Torino (ITA). It will be a big season for the team, with results from World Cup and Championships events contributing towards athletes quotas at the 2026 Winter Olympics.“

Australian Team Head Coach Alexei Sotskov mentioned, “In preparation for the season our team members took different strategies. Some were staying in Australia and took advantage of the winter conditions here, some took an option to spend the pre-season period in Norway or the USA, and some combined both. Although the locations of training were all over the world, the team is united in common goal to represent the Australian xc ski community at the highest level of competition this season.“