Klaebo finished fourth ahead of M. There is no need to ask who either sees as a teammate. Alexander Bolshunov struck late to win a dramatic men's cross-country World Cup 50-kilometre mass start on Saturday as Russia swept the podium places in Oslo. Canadians Len Valjas and Bob Thompson placed 43rd +3:56. At the Olympics, he rebounded by winning three silver medals and one bronze medal.
Fellow Russian skier Natalia Nepryaeva finished fourth in the same race. Five men completed the sprint for the U. Hän sai hopeaa myös vapaan hiihtotavan parisprintissä ja 4 × 10 kilometrin viestissä, jossa hiihti toisen osuuden. Regardless, Klæbo will depart the Ruka sprint hungry for more, as will Bolshunov. Eyeing Klæbo throughout the day, he showed strong positioning and pace. Already assured of the overall title, Riiber beat Finland's Ilkka Herola by 2 tenths of a second in a sprint finish with Norway's Espen Bjoernstad completing the podium 7. She spent this past winter in Europe and is currently in Montana enjoying all that the U.
They train and travel separately from the other groups. Holund, Bolshunov, and Iversen imposed a pace that the rest of the group could not keep up with. The one thing Alexander does not want to talk about is that race. The irony is that their training group is considered to have the toughest regime of all. In the only Lillehammer individual Cross-Country competition, Alexander Bolshunov was persistent in surprising the hosts.
The can't stop laughing and poking each other playfully. This will also be the only individual competition at Lillehammer because as we saw last weekend, they moved The Nordic Opening to Ruka this year. Not Bolshunov, though, it seems. It's enough a bit to make any 21-year old's head spin. Hailing from the сity of Bryansk, at the Russian border with Belarus and Ukraine, Bolshunov was initially coached by his father.
Martin Johnsrud Sundby was the highest home athlete in sixth while Norway's Hans Christer Holund, who won the 50km at the recent world championships, was 15th. Ski Team was the top North American on Sunday, finishing in 30th +2:35. The media, especially the Scandinavian outlets, have started playing up the Klaebo v Bolshunov stand-off in the past year — and, as far as media goes, for a good reason. Holund tried to escape Bolshunov, but the Russian followed the strong pace of Holund and in the last 300 meters with a brilliant sprint took away the experienced Norwegian, who recorded his first World Cup victory last weekend. He won his first Olympic medal in sprint classical, losing only to and. He passed him shortly afterwards but later Niskanen with a fresh dig, swept past him winning a gold medal.
He has received the title of Master of Sport of International Class for the Russian Federation. Ski Team racing the qualifier on Saturday in Kuusamo, Finland. Also in the final on Saturday was Emil Iversen, who received a technique violation during his quarterfinal, of Norway in fourth +3:04 , Gleb Retivykh of Russia in fifth +3. Training is exhausting and so is traveling after a while. Both are fantastically young for their sport and both are incredibly talented, together re-writing every notion about the age of champions in a storied sport of cross-country skiing.
You can sense how close they are as a couple from the moment they sit down for the interview. Klaebo won three gold medals at the Olympics in PyeongChang this year, Bolshunov already got two silvers and a bronze in the first races when he was on track to become the youngest Olympic champion ever in the most prestigious 50k distance, but made a tactical mistake and finished second. Helmikuussa 2017 Bolšunov oli yhdistelmäkilpailussa 15:s ja vapaan tyylin sprintissä 26:s. I started a little slow in Period 1 and today was definitely better than that. Olympialaisten jälkeen Bolšunov sijoittui toiseksi 15 kilometrin perinteisen kilpailussa ja kolmanneksi perinteisen sprintissä. Sundby and Sjur Roethe in his distinctive sprint.
Niskanen finished in a time of 19:26. You spend so much time traveling, training and competing together. He won his first podium in the third Stage World Cup in , Finland, on 26 November, in 15 km freestyle pursuit. Bolshunov then won medals in team sprint freestyle, 4 × 10 km relay and 50 km classical. There is no Team A, B and so on, all groups are considered equal in status. All but one is of mixed gender. As a result, Bolshunov at age 22 became not only the youngest winner of the marathon stage, but also the youngest winner of the overall Distance rankings, claiming the Small Crystal Globe.
Elite skiers spend more than 250 days a year in training camps or competing during the season. Therese Johaug justified the role of the favorite in the 15km Skiathlon race. Now, both are training in the group led by Yuri Borodavko. Belorukova, 23, showed the 15th best time in the preliminary round, but breezed through qualifying to reach the decisive stage of the competition, where she claimed bronze. He won a silver medal in the 50 kilometer classic at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang and he also won a bronze medal in cross-country skiing at the games as well.
Relative to others I skied with in the race, I think our skis were competitive. Bolshunov debuted at the World and won four silver medals in 30 km skiathlon, 50 km freestyle mass start, as well as in team sprint and 4 × 10 km relay. The American thus won the first podium of her career in the 15km Skiathlon. Vylegzhanin claimed second, 6 tenths ahead of Andrey Larkov at the Holmenkollen event with another Russian, Ilia Semikov, fourth. More interesting was the fight for other positions, Jessica Diggins had a great day too and finished second in front of another Norwegian Heidi Weng.