David Norris of Fairbanks won the nation’s biggest cross country ski race over the weekend. Norris bested an elite field in Saturday’s 51 kilometer American Birkibeiner in Wisconsin. Norris battled several world class marathon skiers from France to capture victory in the race which finishes on snow covered streets of Hayward, Wisconsin.
The 25 year old Norris skied for Lathrop High school, and collegiately at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Montana State University. He currently skis for the Alaska Pacific University Ski Center out of Anchorage, and is having a break out season, including his first national super tour wins last month in Lake Placid New York.
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.
