Cross-Country Skiing at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships 2017

[Gianlu33 4,552]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I still think he would have won anyway, but this is just sad. 

We never know it  but I see Ustiugov a little tired compared to Sundby 

Edited February 25, 2017 by Gianlu33

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

We never know it  but I see Ustiugov a little tired compared to Sundby 

Always impossible to predict what would have happened of course, you're right, but Ustiugov does have a scorching sprint in his legs  

[Federer91 2,793]

Sundby  

[hckošice 14,822]

FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Women's 7.5km+7.5km Skiathlon
Final Results

 

BJOERGEN Marit
37:57.5

 

PARMAKOSKI Krista
38:02.3

 

KALLA Charlotte
38:29.5

Bjoergen golden for 15th time at WSC

 

 

Norway's Marit Bjoergen has skied her way into the history books yet again.  This time winning her 15th World Championship gold medal.  Entering the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Bjoergen was tied with Russia's Elena Valbe at 14 but with her victory today in the ladies' 15km Skiathlon she stands alone atop this category.  

 

Finland's Krista Parmakoski kept it very exciting today changing the lead back and forth as she and Bjoergen broke away from everyone on the free technique part of the Skiathlon.  At one point Parmakoski put on a short burst to test Bjoergen's legs much to the excitement of the sell out crowd in Lahti stadium.  But in the end Bjoergen proved too strong with her own attack on the final climb and she skied to gold with a 4.8 second lead over Parmakoski who took the silver.  

 

Sweden's Charlotte Kalla took the bronze medal position +32.0 seconds back.  Midway through the classic portion of the Skiathlon it was down to 4 athletes battling for 3 podium positions.  The switch to free technique proved to be a turning point with Bjoergen and Parmakoski breaking away and Kalla eventually dropping Norway's Heidi Weng.  

 

Weng lost over minute to Bjoergen in the final 7.5 km of the competition and was caught by Switzerland's Natalie Von Siebenthal for fourth place by just 0.1 ahead of Weng.  Fourth to seventh was separated by just 0.7 seconds with 8 nations represented in the top 11 positions.  It was a very exciting ladies' competition.

 

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Marit Bjoergen

2017 Skiathlon World Champion

Last 5km

 

Race Replay

 

 

[bestmen 2,817]

oh f.... my prediction

 

CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 30 km Skiathlon Day 3, February 25th, 2017

Martin Johnsrud Sundby

Finn Hågen Krogh

Sergey Ustiugov

[bestmen 2,817]

i really can't understand this hell of  no luck , when i predict one norwegian as winner will be always russian
and if i predict the russian of course will be norwegian

 

[hckošice 14,822]

FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Men's 15km+15km Skiathlon
Final Results

 

USTIUGOV Sergey
1:09:16.7

 

SUNDBY Martin Johnsrud
1:09:23.4

 

KROGH Finn Haagen
1:09:48.5

 

Ustiugov gets his gold in Skiathlon

 

Russia's Sergey Ustiugov after just missing out in the sprint two days ago got his gold medal today in the men's 30 km Skiathlon at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland. Around the 20 km mark of the competition it became a two man race between Ustiugov and Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby and they traded the lead back and forth until the final lap when the gamesmanship began with neither really wanting to take the lead.

 

On the final climb the two leaders went for it full speed and neither was giving an inch until Sundby missed a pole plant and stumbled ultimately breaking his pole and the gold was Ustiugov's. Sundby was in tough anyways to beat Ustiugov in the final kilometer with Ustiugov's World class sprint speed. In the bronze medal position was Norway's Finn Haagen Krogh. The 4th place finisher from the sprint two todays before he made sure to get the final spot on the podium today. He led into the final curve and left little doubt who would take the bronze. Krogh finished +31.8 seconds back of Ustiugov's winning time of 1:09:16.7. Sundby crossed the line +6.7 behind.

 

Similar to the ladies' competition positions 4th to 7th were separated by less than one second and there were 10 nations represented in the top 15 spots.

 

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Sergey Ustiugov

2017 Skiathlon World Champion

Last 3km

 

Race Replay

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Colombia will compete in men's team sprint tomorrow.

[hckošice 14,822]

Tomorrows Womens Team Sprint Classical Start List

 

Tomorrows Mens Team Sprint Classical Start List

[heywoodu 15,135]

11 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

 

Tomorrows Mens Team Sprint Classical Start List

Colombia  

 

Still unbelievable that the Brazilian federation chose not to let their women compete in the teamsprint. They could easily have let Bruna stay a couple of days (she arrived back home in Brazil yesterday morning) so she could compete with Mourão here.