2 Maine skiers on U.S. Nordic team

RUMFORD – A 10-member United States team made up of nine former Olympians and a college skier was named Friday for cross-country events in the Nordic World Championships next month in Sweden.

The team of five men and five women was chosen based on results from the U.S. Cross Country Championships at Black Mountain. Final spots were filled after the last of the trial races on Friday.

Leslie Thompson, a two-time Olympic skier from Stowe, Vt., won her third race of the week, taking the women’s 15-kilometer, a non-title race. Earlier, John Bauer of Champlin, Minn., won the men’s 30K by nearly 2 minutes.

Joining Bauer on the men’s team, which will race Feb. 18-28 at Falun, were John Aalberg of Salt Lake City; Todd Boonstra of Eagan, Minn.; Ben Husaby of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Marcus Nash of Fryeburg, Maine.

The women’s team includes Nancy Fiddler of Crowley Lake, Calif.; Nina Kemppel of Anchorage, Alaska; Brenda White of Williston, Vt., and Dorcas Wonsavage of Wilton, Maine, in addition to Thompson.

The five women plus Aalberg, Bauer and Husaby were on the 1992 Olympic team at Albertville, France, and Boonstra was a member of the 1984 and 1988 teams. Nash grew up about 45 minutes from Black Mountain but races for the University of Utah.