Supporting every step of the way: Coaches updates 2022

Team France

Alexandre Rousselet was appointed head coach of the French World Cup team and at the same time remains in position as the men’s Distance team coach.

Thibaut Chene, who has been the coach of the womens team until now, changes to manage the men’s Sprint team after Cyril Burdet. And with Alexandre Pouye, a former skier will be in charge of coaching the French women’s team.

Team Germany

Sport Director Andreas Schlütter and Team head coach Peter Schlickenrieder intend to continue the successful path that led to the successes of Beijing 2022. With Per Nilsson from Sweden, the German womens team will get support by an international expert with a long-term experience from coaching the Swedish national team as well as individual athletes such as Frida Karlsson.

The German mens team welcomes Marc Steur as their new coach who collaborates with Falk Göpfert in a co-coaching position.

Team Italy

The upcoming Olympic term will be a very special one for the Italian Cross-Country squad as Milano-Cortina 2026 will be a homerun for the currently 5 men and 3 women in the national team. Naturally, the Italian Ski Federation was happy to engage one of the most experienced and diverse Cross-Country coaches with Marcus Cramer. The German origin changes from coaching one of the Russian training groups but does not start on cold ground with the Italian athletes. Already last year, Federico Pellegrino and Francesco De Fabiani had joined his training sessions during summer and are now building up on those successes.

Team Finland

“Never change a winning team” – the words of Alf Ramsey might just be the right move for the Finnish Cross-Country Team that has recorded many fantastic results in the past season. Thus, the team around head coach Teemu Pasanen – will stay in position with Ville Oksanen responsible for the men team and Jussi Piirainen for the women’s team together with Juho Halonen.