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

[Finnator123 342]

Oh well, we still won the bronze medal   So 2 medals from Lahti so far.

And Niskanen/Jauhojärvi are still the defending olympic gold medalists 

[hckošice 16,640]

FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Men's Team Sprint Classical
Final Results

 

Russia
KRIUKOV Nikita
USTIUGOV Sergey
17:40.69

 

Italy
NOECKLER Dietmar
PELLEGRINO Federico
17:42.83

 

Finland
JAUHOJAERVI Sami
NISKANEN Iivo
17:49.33

 

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Women's Team Sprint Classical
Final Results

 

Norway
WENG Heidi
FALLA Maiken Caspersen
20:20.56

 

Russia
BELORUKOVA Yulia
MATVEEVA Natalia
20:26.12

 

United States
BJORNSEN Sadie
DIGGINS Jessica
20:38.94

 

 

No lack of excitement in Team Sprint at Lahti 2017

 

Norway and Russia have won the gold medals at today's Team Sprint competition at the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland.  

 

For the ladies from Norway it was their 3rd consecutive win in the team sprint event.  They previously won in Sochi OWG 2014 and Falun WSC 2015.  They become the first nation to win 3 in a row in this event.  The silver medal went to Russia who finished +5.56 back of Norway. After a very strong performance from first leg skier Yulia Belorukova on her final lap it was just a two-team battle.  Natalia Matveeva did her best to keep it close with Norway's anchor Maiken Caspersen Falla but Falla proved to be too strong.  In third place for the first time ever in a classic team sprint event was the United States of America.  Jessie Diggins already a silver medalist in the sprint at these Championships used her excellent downhill skills to overtake Sweden's Stina Nilsson coming into the stadium and led her into the final turn.  From there Diggins managed to hold Nilsson off to give the USA the bronze medal just 0.19 seconds ahead of Sweden and +18.38 behind the winning time of Norway. 

 

In the men's competition is looked to be a gold or at worst a silver medal for the home team Finland as Iivo Niskanen erased his deficit to Norway on the final lap but a crash between him and Norway's Emil Iversen entering the final curve left Finland with the bronze.

 

 Navigating safely around the tangle up Russia and Italy came to the finish line for the gold and silver.  The Jury deliberated for almost 30 minutes to decided who the bronze medal would go to and in the end Finland who crossed the line in third was awarded the bronze medal.

 

 

 

 

Full Results Men and Women

 

Norway (Weng/Falla)

Womens Team Sprint Classical 2017 World Champion

 

Russia (Kriukov/Ustiugov)

Mens Team Sprint Classical 2017 World Champion

 

 

Race Replay

Womens and Mens Final

 

 

 

[heywoodu 16,468]

4 hours ago, Finnator123 said:

Oh well, we still won the bronze medal   So 2 medals from Lahti so far.

And Niskanen/Jauhojärvi are still the defending olympic gold medalists 

Our Dutch commentator directly after the finish by the way: "Gold for Russia, silver for Italy and the Finnish fans can be happy with a nice bronze medal for their team" 

 

Ok, after some time maybe, but please tell me in which universe fans from Finland can be happy with this bronze medal directly after the finish  (where Finland might also be replaced by any random country, the big thing being it's the home country) 

 

 

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Tomorrows Womens 10km Classical Start List

[Finnator123 342]

On 26.2.2017 at 20:02, heywoodu said:

Our Dutch commentator directly after the finish by the way: "Gold for Russia, silver for Italy and the Finnish fans can be happy with a nice bronze medal for their team" 

 

Ok, after some time maybe, but please tell me in which universe fans from Finland can be happy with this bronze medal directly after the finish  (where Finland might also be replaced by any random country, the big thing being it's the home country) 

 

 

Oh we are happy about it. It took us what, 1-2 days to be happy about it
But the fact is that that's a lost bronze. For example Pärmäkoski won silver.

[Finnator123 342]

And why Saarinen was dropped from 10km classical

[heywoodu 16,468]

Alright, time for another gold for Bjoergen  

 

(who knows, maybe Pärmäkoski could pull of a stunt, that'd be awesome) 

[hckošice 16,640]

Hope and wish for a good result for Alena today, after her frustrating 31st place 0.02s behind the top 30 in the sprint, it´s our last chance to earn something interesting and nice for this sport at this WCh. a top 20 is probably unrealistic but something close to that would be fine and will bring at least a small smile in the face of our nordic skiing

[Federer91 3,390]

Let's go Heidi  

[heywoodu 16,468]

So apparently getting below 180 FIS points in this specific qualifying race was indeed needed. This was the result:

 

 

And only people from the top-7 are participating today. Not even all of them, because Paul, Skender and Auzina aren't here.