Boee Nabs Fourth Medal At World University Games

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.—It's only fitting that on the final day of competition, Magnus Boee would earn yet another medal for the Colorado Buffaloes Ski Team at the 31st World University Games.

Boee picked up his third medal of these games in the Men's 30K Freestyle race, taking second and finishing just 2.5 seconds out of a gold medal after nearly 73 minutes of racing.

Boee remained in the lead pack the entire race and never clocked in lower than 11th at any interval. He briefly led the race three times, the last time at the 20K mark. He would slip to fifth at the 26.6K mark but then moved up three spots before the penultimate check in at the 28.3K mark and held that place through the end of the race.

Alexander Maurer finished in 22nd but less than three minutes behind the race leaders, as there was nearly a minute between Mauer and 23rd place and almost two minutes to 24th. Oyvind Haugan also started the race but did not finish, calling it at about the midway point of the race.

In the Women's 15K Freestyle race, Anna-Maria Dietze finished fifth in a time of 40:39.2, just 1:00.8 behind the race leader Mariel Pulles from Alaska Fairbanks. Dietze finishes a fantastic games in which she competed in six events, not finishing lower than eighth and earning a bronze medal in the Freestyle Sprint race.

Boee put together one of the most dominant performances by a CU skier at World University Games. After finishing 16th in the mixed team sprint and 26th in the freestyle sprint race, he turned it on, earning three silver medals in the 10K classic, the 30K freestyle and the 4x7.5K relay, a medal he shared with Haugan and Fredrik Nilsen as the Buffs made up 75% of the silver medal winning relay.

In all the Buffs earned nine medals at these games, having earned a combined six in CU's extensive history at the event. He was in a tie with Erika Ghent and Adam Zika with two medals before Sunday's final race, and he became the first skier to win three medals either in a single games or in multiple games combined.

Aside from Dietze, Boee and his Relay with Haugan and Nilsen, Emma Hammergaard (Women's GS), Weronika Kaleta (Nordic Combined Mixed Relay), and Jacob Dilling (Men's Slalom) also earned medals.

Thirteen of the 14 skiers who represented the Buffs and their respective countries here in Lake Placid will now return to Boulder to prep for the remainder of the college season. Nordic skiers will have a little break before CU's Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational races take place in Steamboat Springs on Feb. 3-4. The alpine teams, meanwhile, will be busy with four meets in the span of two-and-a-half weeks starting with the Westminster Invitational Jan. 25-26 at Snowbird.

The fourteenth skier is Will Koch, who left Lake Placid after the 10K Classic race to make his World Cup debut for the United States in Livingo, Italy. There he finished 41st in the freestyle sprints and the U.S. took 12th in the team sprint final.

Players Mentioned

Magnus Boee

Anna-Maria Dietze

Jacob Dilling

Emma Hammergaard

Oyvind Haugan

Weronika Kaleta

Will Koch

Alexander Maurer

Fredrik Nilsen

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