Schumacher, a 23-year-old from Anchorage, won the men’s 10-kilometer freestyle race on Sunday, becoming the first American man to win a World Cup event since 1983.
Gus Schumacher from Alaska skis past fans on the way to winning the Men’s 10k race with a time of 20:52:07 at the 2024 Loppet World Cup at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.
Just a kid from Alaska writing the history of American cross-country skiing 🖌️! Gus Schumacher 🇺🇸 left the crowd of Minneapolis breathless in today’s 10Km. 👑The leaders in the World Cup standings, all Norwegians, were all still on the course. One by one, they finished, and Schumacher remained atop the leader board.
The weekend races in Minneapolis were the first World Cup events held in the United States in 23 years. And entering the weekend, the hopes for an American champion in any of the four races rested largely on Jessie Diggins, the Afton native who leads the women’s World Cup standings.After Schumacher was done racing, he was ushered to the chair at the finish line reserved for the leader.
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