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Newell 4th in Overall Sprint Cup

Written by

Topher Sabot

Racing, US Ski Team, World Cup

Andy Newell set a new American mark by finishing 4^th in the FIS Sprint Cup standings, just 34 points behind Alexei Petukhov (RUS) in 3^rd, and a single point ahead of Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR), the two-time defending Sprint Cup champions.

Newell entered the final sprint of the season with a chance to move up as high as second, but he was unable to advance past the quarterfinals and was defeated by both Petukhov and Petter Northug, the two men within reach ahead of him.

4^th place is still a US best finish in the Sprint Cup, besting Newell’s own 6^th place finish in 2007. His 314 sprint World Cup points is also a new mark, easily topping the 222 he scored in 2006 when he was 8^th overall.

Newell also finished the season ranked 19^th in the overall World Cup standings, the best US ranking since Bill Koch in 1983.

He finished the season with 7 top-10 finishes and 11 in the top-30. In addition to his sprinting, Newell took a major step forward in his distance racing, starting eight individual distance races and two relays.

A team accomplishment. — A team accomplishment (Photo: Kikkan Randall)

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Comments

5 responses to “Newell 4th in Overall Sprint Cup”

March 22, 2010

Patrick Stinson

That is so awesome, Andy. Way to go!
March 22, 2010

Mike Gibbs

Rock ‘n’ roll, Andy.
March 22, 2010

teamepokeedsbyn

Good sprint season.
Lets hope we can parley these top results by KF, KR and AN into consitent top 20’s in the men’s and women’s ski events over 5km next year! Looks like Kiki and Andrew are poised to break into the level of being a threat on any day in any race at any distance. Keep up the good progress, and go for the WC podiums in the 15km next year!
March 22, 2010

xcskier.borg

way to get it done… looking forward to next season.
March 23, 2010

nyctvt

It would be great if Andy and Kris both focused on sprints and 10/15K races. Would make a great one two punch and both would probably be very successful next season.