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

[dareza 911]

maybe Switzerland will win bronze at the end hhah

[dareza 911]

Finland

[heywoodu 16,468]

Halfvarsson almost gave the bronze away to Perl/Switzerland 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Just now, dareza said:

Finland

At least this time it was completely his own fault and he didn't lose gold with it...  

 

Still sad, although I doubt he would have gotten bronze. 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Well this has been a very enjoyable relay 

[dcro 10,211]

Didn't watch it, but from what I read Finland had some awful luck. What else is new?

[hckošice 16,640]

FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Men's 4x10km Team Relay
Final Results

 

Norway
TOENSETH Didrik
DYRHAUG Niklas
SUNDBY Martin Johnsrud
KROGH Finn Haagen
1:37:20.1

 

Russia
LARKOV Andrey
BESSMERTNYKH Alexander
CHERVOTKIN Alexey
USTIUGOV Sergey
1:37:24.7

 

Sweden
RICKARDSSON Daniel
OLSSON Johan
HELLNER Marcus
HALFVARSSON Calle
1:39:51.9

 

 

Norway wins 9th consecutive WSC 4 x10 km relay

 

 

 

Norway has won it's 10th consecutive men's 4 x 10 relay gold medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland.  It was a two team battle between Norway and Russia and despite a 17.7 second lead heading into the third exchange Russia's Sergey Ustiugov managed to cut the deficit to +4.6 seconds at the finish line but the gold was for Norway.  Russia took silver and Sweden battled back from 7th place after the second exchange to take the bronze.  Sweden's Marcus Hellner recorded the fastest third leg and brought the team into medal contention.  

 

Sweden had Calle Halfvarsson as the anchor and amongst the 4 team fight for the final podium position, he was the best finisher.  The games began early between Halfvarsson, Finland's Heikkinen, Germany's Boegl and Switzerland's Perl with no one wanting to lift the pace to early to thin the group down.  Sweden, Finland and Switzerland entered the final curve together with Halfvarsson leading the group.  A fall by Heikkinen on the final curve took Finland out of the  bronze medal battle.  Switzerland's Perl kept Halfvarsson honest all the way to the line arriving just 0.2 seconds behind in 4th. Heikkinen recovered in time from his fall to bring Finland across for 5th just ahead of Germany in 6th.  

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Norway (Toenseth, Dyrhaug, Sundby, Krogh)

2017 Mens Team Relay World Champion

 

Race Replay

 

 

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Tomorrows Womens 30km Freestyle Mass Start Start List

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FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Women's 30km Mass Start Freestyle
Final Results

 

BJOERGEN Marit
1:08:36.8

 

WENG Heidi
1:08:38.7

 

JACOBSEN Astrid Uhrenholdt
1:08:38.7

 

 

Bjoergen leads Norwegian sweep of ladies' 30 km

 

Norway recorded it's 6th gold medal of the Championships becoming the first nation to do so by winning all the ladies' competitions.

 

Today's winner Marit Bjoergen was apart of four of those gold medals, and 3 of them individually.  By winning the ladies' 30 km mass start in free technique she won her 18th WSC gold medal.  

 

She led a Norwegian sweep of the podium with teammates Heidi Weng and Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen separated by a photo finish to decide the silver and bronze medal positions.  

 

Both crossed the line +1.9 seconds behind the winning time of 1:08:36.8 set by Bjoergen.  The silver went to Weng and the bronze to Jacobsen.

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Marit Bjoergen

30km Mass Start Freestyle World Champion

 

Race Replay

 

 

[dcro 10,211]

Lol, so glad that I decided to pay zero attention to this race.