2006 Manitoba Winter Games

2005-2006 was a Manitoba Winter Games year. The Games were hosted in Beausejour from March 6th to 12th, 2006.

Manitoba Winter Games website
(lots of info, including online and paper registration)

The finals for the cross country ski event were hosted ~60K away in Pinawa on the trails of the Whiteshell Cross Country Club, and using the Pinawa Club facilities. On Tuesday March 7th, the race was classic technique, and on Wednesday March 8th, the race was free technique. Both races had an interval start. Distances were 2.5K to 15K, depending on age category. Please see the cross country ski technical package for more details.

Technical package for cross country skiing at the Manitoba Winter Games (Adobe PDF)
Course map (classic) (Adobe PDF)

Leading up to the finals in Pinawa, athletes were encouraged to try out for their Regional Team. Winners in each gender/age category were selected to that region's Manitoba Winter Games Cross Country Ski Team. There are 6 two-year age categories: 10&11, 12&13, 14&15, 16&17, 18&19, 20&21. An athlete's competition age is their age as of December 31, 2005. (Age 10 is a birth year of 1995 ..... age 21 is a birth year of 1984.)

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Regional Team qualifying event information

All qualifying events are classic technique, and the distances were similar as at the Games in Pinawa.

Interlake Region Event date: Saturday January 28th Event location: Camp Morton Provincial Park Race Organizer: Tom Chwaliboga	Eastman Region Event date: Sunday January 29th Event location: Pinawa Race Organizer: Whiteshell Cross Country Ski Club
Central Region Event date: Saturday January 28th Event location: Birch Ski Area Race Organizer: Birch Cross Country Ski Club	Parkland Region Event date: Saturday January 21st Event location: Minitonas Race Organizer: Rex Leach
Westman Region Event date: Saturday January 21st Event location: Turtle Mountain Provincial Park -- Adams Lake Race Organizer: Sheridan Green	Winnipeg Region Event date: Wednesday January 11th Event location: Windsor Park Nordic Centre Race Organizer: Windsor Park
Norman Region Event date: Sunday February 5th Event location: Thompson Race Organizer: Jeanne Zwiep

For registration info and forms, regional contacts, and regional maps, click here.
For other questions about cross country skiing, please contact Karin in the CCSAM office.

Regional Teams

	Central	Eastman	Host	Interlake	Norman	Parkland	Westman	Winnipeg
F 10-11	Kelby Loeppky	Maya Boivin	Tessa Trueman	Kalyn Gregory	Christine Wood		Kelsey Pettinger	Mallory Cook
M 10-11	Christian Gruenke	Nicholas Dumontier	Ben Dearing	Derek Jones	Jaydon Harper	Brant Bosiak	Dustin Asham	Sean Carter
F 12-13	Alex Loeppky	Manon Magnan	Sherilyn Adrian	Jennifer Mayers	Bethany Crane			Nicole Poirier
M 12-13	Nicholas Lovatt	Liam O'Connor	Rhys Hatherly	Darren Sherlock	Chad Wood	Jordan Baird	Michael Juce	Mackenzie Cook
F 14-15	Stevie Moore	Brooke Christie	Rebecca Bilsky	Vanessa Jones		Vanessa Bodnar		Anna Schappert
M 14-15	Luke Hildebrandt	Tyler Horton	Richard Koroll	Nicholas Humniski	Clayton Crane		Stephen Oberlin	Joel Peltz
F 16-17	Heather Froese	Jennie Hissa	Katie Wesley	Meaghan Kusyk	Heather Wood	Amanda Hardie		Nicole Dubois
M 16-17	Jared Knockaert	Greg Cederwall	Kirk Vilks	Luke Voth	Julian Robinson			Matt Burns
F 18-19					Samantha Stinson			Elise Paetkau
M 18-19	Duncan Halstead	Jay Hawranik	Brendan Magnan		Shane Weenusk			Daniel Peters
F 20-21
M 20-21	Tim Zubriggen	Drew Hawranik	Steven Young		Jonah Perrick
Coach	Phil Froese	Ursula Wehner	Peter Vilks	Anita Gregory	Michael Lukowich	Roger Baird	David Juce	Megan Carter
Coach	Linda Nichols	Norm Hissa	Doreen Bigelow	Paul Gregory	Roland Grieves	Theresa Hardie		Rob Cook
Manager	Victor Chappellaz	Noel Dumontier	Ken Young		Wanda Munroe			Jo-Anne Peltz

Note that some of the skiers in a particular category can be younger than their actual age because Games rules allow a Regional Team to fill a vacant category by moving athletes up a category.

Sport Chair: Alf Wikjord
Technical Delegate: Don Ewing

Classic Technique race results
Free Technique race results
Sport points (Adobe PDF)

2002 Manitoba Winter Games at The Pas / OCN

This page was last updated on March 30, 2006