Utah's Jordheim, CU's Boee Win Classic Races At DU Invitational

Saturday, January 25, 2020 • by Brooke Frederickson, RMISA

MINTURN, Colo.—Utah's Guro Jordheim and Colorado's Magnus Boee won the classic races on the first Nordic day of completion at the Denver Invitational on Saturday.

Utah holds a 66-point lead in the team standings over second-place Colorado going into Sunday's freestyle races.

The DU Invite closes with a pursuit freestyle race, with starting times determined based on finish times in today's race. The men's 10-km race begins at 9 a.m. with the women's 7.5-km race to follow.

Team Scores

1. Utah (514)
2. Colorado (448, -66)
3. Denver (410, -104)
4. Montana State (399, -115)
5. Alaska Anchorage (327, -187)
6. Westminster College (288, -226)
7. Colorado Mountain (152, -362)
8. Alaska Fairbanks (100, -414)

Women's 5-km Classic

1. Guro Jordheim, UU
2. Karianne Moe, UU
3. Anne-Siri Lervik, CU
4. Hannah Rudd, UAA
5. Hedda Baangman, CU
6. Leah Lange, UU
7. Mariah Bredal, UU
8. Emma Tarbath, MSU
9. Ezra Smith, CU
10. Vera Norli, DU

• Utah's Guro Jordheim has won all three races this season and has 15 career victories.
• Utah's Karianne Moe earned a career-best second-place finish for her first podium of the year and third career podium.
• Colorado's Anne-Siri Lervik finished on the podium for the second time this season.
• Alaska Anchorage's Hannah Rudd earned a career-best fourth-place finish.
• Colorado's Hedda Baangman has two top-five finishes this season with 16 in her career.
• Utah led the race with 104 points.

Men's 10-km Classic

1. Magnus Boee, CU
2. Luke Jager, UU
3. Sigurd Roenning, UAA
4. Zanden McMullen, MSU
5. Logan Diekmann, UU
6. Ola Jordheim, UU
7. Ryan Jackson, CU
8. JC Schoonmaker, UAA
9. Bernhard Flaschberger, DU
10. Espen Persen, UAA

• Colorado's Magnus Boee earned the first victory of his career in his third career race. He has two podium finishes this year.
• Utah's Luke Jager earned his second podium finish of the season with a career-best second place.
• Alaska Anchorage's Sigurd Roenning also has two podiums this season and seven career podium finishes.
• Montana State's Zanden McMullen, also a freshman, finishes fourth in his first career race.
• Utah's Logan Diekmann finishes in the top five for the second time this season, he has nine career top-five finishes.
• Utah led the race with 93 points.