SNOW Australia has announced a number of additional selections to the 2021/2022 national cross country team.
Seventeen athletes are now selected to the World Cup, Continental Cup and U23 national teams, including the six athletes that represented Australia at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
"We have a great group of athletes in the pipeline at the moment," said Snow Australia Cross Country director Finn Marsland.
"The fantastic results acheived at the World Junior/U23 Championship earlier this year demonstrated the depth of talent coming through, and the future is looking bright."
The national team includes five U23 athletes and three juniors that met the performance standard for the Continental Cup Team.
Two new athletes were selected to the national team for the first time, former elite cylist John Walker from Melbourne, and Ellen Soehol Lie who is based in Oslo.
A separate junior team was not named for 2021/2022, due to limited access to events for many athletes in 2020/2021.
However, athletes from the national junior squad are invited to training camps, and a number of junior athletes are part of the Snow Australia ETP program for 2022.
National teams for 2022/2023 will be announced following the 2022 Australian winter.
2021/2022 Cross Country Skiing National Team
WOMEN
Tuva Bygrave (Fossum IF, UAA) – U23 & COC
Phoebe Cridland (NSW, NSWACTXC) – COC
Rosie Fordham (NSW, NSWACTXC, UAF) – COC
Zana Evans (NSW, NSWACTXC, Cooma Ski Club) – COC
Katerina Paul (VIC, Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club, Team BSV IBEX) – COC
Ellen Soehol Lie (Heming IL) – COC
Aimee Watson (NSW) – World Cup
Casey Wright (VIC, Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club) – World Cup
Jessica Yeaton (WA, Alaska Pacific University) – World Cup
MEN
Phillip Bellingham (VIC, Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club) – COC
Fedele de Campo (VIC, VICXC) – U23
Seve de Campo (ACT, ACTAS) – COC
Hugo Hinckfuss (NSW, NSWACTXC) – COC
Mark Pollock (NSW, Wangaratta Ski Club) – COC
John Walker (VIC) – COC
Bentley Walker–Broose (NSW, NSWACTXC) – U23 & COC
Lars Young Vik (SK Njård, Fossum Elite) – U23 & COC
