This weekend marks the primary time in 5 years that Soldier Hollow can be house to the World Cup. Thousands of individuals gathered to observe his greater than 250 athletes from world wide compete for the rostrum.
Soldier Hollow basic supervisor Luke Bodensteiner mentioned the return to Wasatch County for the World Cup was “good.”
“It was nice to get that again,” he mentioned. “The environment right here yesterday was simply surprising.”
The race had good outcomes for American opponents. Vincent Bonacci, an area athlete from Salt Lake City, led the U.S. males’s relay workforce to a fourth-place end on Saturday, March ninth. He mentioned this was the workforce’s greatest relay end for the reason that Eighties.
“It was actually enjoyable to do it in entrance of my house crowd,” Bonacci mentioned. “And it was actually enjoyable to have Team USA cheering everywhere in the course, particularly since this was my house venue the place I did my first ski race a few years in the past.”
Bonacci mentioned he enjoys racing towards the most effective athletes on the earth right here in Utah.
“It’s a loopy feeling to see people who I appeared as much as as an athlete or have competed towards them internationally,” he mentioned.
Norway received each the lads’s and girls’s relays. France and Norway dominated the dash. In the lads’s class, American Wright Campbell got here in sixth place. Campbell was additionally the highest American within the males’s pursuit on Sunday afternoon, ending 14th.
Bodensteiner mentioned after watching the World Cup over the weekend, he believes Soldier Hollow can be able to host the world’s greatest athletes once more in 2034.
“We know we will host the Olympics, and it was actually nice to strive it out this weekend,” he mentioned.
The subsequent IBU World Cup begins on Thursday in Canada. For full outcomes from this weekend’s races, go to the IBU web site.