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Cross Country Director Update - June 2025

Published Fri 27 Jun 2025


Image courtesy of Tom Hoogenraad

Dear XC Skiing Community,

On-snow activity has started early this season with a couple of decent early dumps, hopefully this continues on into a bumper season. While I haven’t yet made it down to the mountains myself, it’s been great to see some fantastic conditions via social media and a stack of Strava updates on the Falls Creek and Perisher trails in particular. No doubt many of you have these sites book-marked, but for any new subscribers here are some essential links:

Our first National Team on-snow camp is coming up at the end of next week down at Falls Creek, based out of the Howmans Gap Discovery Camp. Reflecting on nearly 40 years of these early training camps, we've included in this update some athlete flashbacks going back to the first AIS camp at Mt Beauty / Falls Creek in 1987.

With school, club and championship racing soon to commence in the coming weeks, I'd like to highlight the XC event section on the Snow Australia site. The calendar has been updated this week with some minor changes. Please note the timing of the Perisher events of the Australian Championships on August 1-2, with the Sprint scheduled for Friday and the 15km on Saturday. This rolls straight into the traditional events of NSW XC Week, where we are expecting to see an increase in National Team participation.

Also included in this update, we look over the shoulder at the historic 2024/2025 international season while planning begins for 2025/2026. In addition to World Cup and the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Winter Games, the team will return to Trondheim for the 2026 World Junior/U23 Championship next March. Coaches interested in being part of this venture should submit expressions of interest via the details in the article below.

Best wishes to all for a great winter of skiing in its many different forms!

Finn Marsland
Cross Country Skiing Program Director

 

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Included in this update:

  • Cross Country - 2024/25 Season Wrap
  • Four decades of Falls Creek training camps
  • Cross Country athletes unite in pre-season testing push at AIS
  • Coach EOIs for 2025/2026 Junior Tours
  • Federal Government Investment Powers Australia’s Push to Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Glory
  • Women of Winter: Tickets on Sale for Jindabyne Networking Evening
  • Sport Integrity Australia - Integrity Webinar Series
  • 2025 Memberships
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