2025 Cross-Country Skiing Nationals: Results, Livestream, Schedule, and More

By Gavin Kentch

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KINCAID PARK, Anchorage, Alaska — 2025 U.S. National Cross-Country Championships will be held here from January 2–7. There is a distance skate race on Thursday, a classic sprint on Saturday, a distance classic race on Sunday, then a skate sprint on Tuesday to close things out.

Here is some basic information about 2025 U.S. Nationals all in one place:

Results

You can find results and start lists here.

Livestream

Here, on YouTube, or here, embedded within the race website. (The standalone YouTube version might be more reliable depending upon race-day site traffic and bandwidth, so maybe try that one first.)

Expect a color commentator who knows the sport and knows what she’s talking about; Anchorage resident Nina Kemppel had over 100 World Cup starts in the 1990s and represented the U.S. at four Olympics and five World Championships between 1992 and 2001. Expect some degree of camera work; organizers have cameras at a few other spots on course, and there will be more to look at than just the start and finish lines. That said, World Cup–level television production takes money, and there is not that much money for the sport in this country.

To the extent that the livestream either formally or informally kicks things over to the in-stadium announcer, that would be Adam Verrier on the call. Verrier is also a 1990s World Cup skier and Olympian. You may remember him from such livestreams and finish-line interviews as the American Birkebeiner, and/or virtually any big event held at Kincaid in the past several years. We’ll see what the technology looks like on race day, but both Kemppel and Verrier will be great.

Schedule

Briefly put: 

Thursday, January 2: Interval-start 10-kilometer skate

Saturday, January 4: Classic sprint

Sunday, January 5: Mass start 20km classic (U23 and older), mass start 10km classic (U20 and below)

Tuesday, January 7: Skate sprint

The final event here is “just” a SuperTour race; the 2024/2025 skate sprint national championship will be held during Spring Series at Lake Placid in March. The first three races are all national championships.

Here is a more detailed schedule of the week (all times Alaska Time, which is four hours behind the East Coast and 10 hours behind Central Europe).

full PDF schedule of Tuesday skate sprint heats

Tuesday, January 7: Skate sprint

Logistical information (parking, food trucks, etc.) for those attending in-person

Here is the general race website, and here is probably the most helpful page for in-person attendance.

Points lists

Athletes are not only racing for national championships; they are also racing to qualify to represent the U.S. in international competition. Here are two points lists to follow for that:

Qualification for World Junior/U23 Championships and for U18 Nordic Nations trip [athlete selections for World Juniors and U18 trip are now known, and may be found here]

Overall SuperTour standings, including current leaders for World Championships qualification

Course previews

Here are some very in-depth looks at the sprint and distance courses that will be used here this week:

Athlete previews

Here are previews of four of the six domestic clubs that will be racing here this week (Sun Valley, I’m so sorry, I was going to get your preview up before Nationals, then I got sick over Christmas and missed most of a week, not to mention my race start; Craftsbury, check your email):

There are at least 300 athletes in this week’s field who are not pro skiers profiled above. Your best bet for information on some of them is the SederSkier NCAA team profiles here and here.

Weather and webcam

Here is the weather station for the Kincaid stadium. If that goes down, go to the NOAA site for Anchorage International Airport, then assume it is 2° F colder at Kincaid and that a north wind is blowing 5mph harder. I am not joking; the Kincaid stadium can be vicious.

Here is the general Kincaid webcam, which is pointed directly at the finish line for all races.

Coverage

I will be on site all week. Follow along here for comprehensive coverage of all races from my home course. Anchorage has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to not only good local skiers, but also good local writing about skiers; you can also find detailed coverage on Alaska Sports Report and on the Anchorage Daily News sports page. Unless an Alaskan wins, in which case you’ll want the front page. I don’t know if you know this, but Alaskans really like Alaska.

If you have any questions or comments on coverage throughout the week, please be in touch. I read my DMs at @nordicinsights, or you can email me at gavin (at) nordicinsights.news.

Enjoy the races.

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