website statistics
Jump to content

Cross-Country Skiing 2015 - 2017 Discussion Thread


Werloc
 Share

Recommended Posts

Bjoergen wins 6th Holmenkollen & Finn's go 2-3

2Q==

 

After the starters gun sounded, Marit Bjoergen of Norway left little doubt as to who would win the ladies’ 2017 Holmenkollen 30 km classic mass start competition.

 

Bjoergen was up by over 20 seconds by the 5 km mark of the competition and never looked back winning by +2:05.8 ahead of Finland’s Krista Parmakoski in second and in third another Finn Kerttu Niskanen +2:07 behind. It marks the first time that two female athletes from Finland have shared a World Cup podium since 2009.

 

Parmakoski and Niskanen came to the finish with the main chasing group behind Bjoergen which also contained Overall World Cup leader Heidi Weng (NOR) in 4th, Charlotte Kalla (SWE) in 5th, Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 6th and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN) in 7th.

 

 

Full Results Here

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 217
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Nilsson and Harvey win final sprints of the season

2000x2000Group17317fm0137.jpg

 

 

Stina Nilsson of Sweden and Canada's Alex Harvey won the final sprint competition of the season as part of the first day of the World Cup finals in Quebec City, Canada.   Nilsson continued her season long battle with Norway's Maiken Caspersen Falla.  The two athletes were clear again of the field and this time by 2.58 seconds ahead of third place finisher Hanna Falk of Sweden.  

 

As a consolation for the second place finish by Falla, she had earlier in the sprint heats clinched her second consecutive overall World Cup sprint crystal globe.  Nilsson took second in the overall sprint standings followed by her teammate Falk. 

 

On the men's side Harvey won his first World Cup on home soil much to the excitement of the home crowd.  Harvey was followed to the finish line by Norway's Finn Haagen Krogh +0.31 behind.  France's Richard Jouve took third +0.94 for his second sprint podium in Canada in the last two seasons. 

 

The battle for the men's sprint globe was decided in the mens' semi final when both Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway and Italy's Federico Pellegrino didn't advance to the final.  Pellegrino needed 38 points to overtake Klaebo and only managed to pull by 6 points making Klaebo the youngest ever sprint crystal globe winner.  Pellegrino took second in the sprint overall and Norway's Sindre Bjoernestad Skar took third in the overall standings.  The top 5 men were all separated by just 77 points.  

 

Competitions continue tomorrow with the 10/15 km mass start classic competitions.  During today's sprint competition Norway's Heidi Weng won her first ever Overall World Cup crystal globe.

 

9k=

 

 

Full Results Men and Women

2016/17 World Cup Sprints Final Ranking Men and Women

 

9k=

 

Women

 

Men

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Bjoergen wins World Cup finals 10 km classic

2Q==

 

Marit Bjoergen of Norway continued her unbeaten streak in classic technique distance races this season.  She won the stage two mass start 10 km classic by just 0.6 seconds over her teammate Heidi Weng.  In third place was Finland's Krista Parmakoski who overcame an early crash in the competition and finished just +2.8 second behind Weng.

 

Weng now leads the mini-tour by just 1.0 seconds ahead of Bjoergen heading into tomorrow's final stage and final competition of the season.  Ingvild Flugstag Oestberg of Norway currently sits in 3rd +28.8 back and ahead of 4 other ladies all within 21 seconds. 

 

Parmakoski will head out 6th tomorrow 46 seconds after Weng and will be chasing Oestberg as they are battling for final positions in the Overall World Cup and Distance standings.  

 

 

Full Results Here

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Klaebo gets first distance World Cup win

9k=

 

Just one day removed from becoming the youngest ever winner of the sprint crystal globe, Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has won his first ever World Cup distance competition.  Klaebo won the second stage of the World Cup finals in Quebec City, Canada in the 15 km mass start competition.  He over took his teammate Niklas Dyrhaug on the homestretch for the win by 0.5 seconds.  Russia's Alexander Bessmertnykh took third just 0.8 behind Klaebo.  It was a high pace that stretched the field out early but leading group of approximately 20 athletes broke away and finished all within 15 seconds of the winning time by Klaebo.

 

Klaebo now leads the mini tour standings after two stages by 22.8 seconds ahead of Dyrhaug.  Local favourite Alex Harvey of Canada sits third in the standings and will start the pursuit just 0.5 seconds behind Dyrhaug.  The final stage will be a free technique 15 km pursuit start competition to end the 2017 FIS Cross-Country World Cup season.  

 

 

Full Results Here

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Bjoergen and Klaebo win World Cup finals in Quebec

2Q==

 

Marit Bjoergen and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway have won the World Cup finals in Quebec City, Canada. Bjoergen and her teammate Heidi Weng began the final day of the 2017 FIS Cross-Country World Cup season separated by one second and finished the ladies’ 10 km pursuit 1.2 seconds apart. In third place was Sweden’s Stina Nilsson +1:00 behind.

 

In the men’s competition Klaebo continued his impressive season winning the men’s 15 km pursuit and the mini-tour in a photo finish over Canada’s Alex Harvey. The top three men in the mini-tour came into the finish together and were separated by just 0.1 second with Norway’s Niklas Dyrhaug take the third spot.

 

2Q==

 

 

Full Results Men and Women

World Cup Finals Final Standing Men and Women

 

2016/17 World Cup Distance Final Ranking Men and Women

2016/17 World Cup Final Ranking Men and Women

Nations Cup Final Ranking Men and Women

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Paulína Fialková won the distance national championships today in Štrbské Pleso defeating all cross country specialists including Alena Procházková by 2 minutes :woot:

 

Spoiler

men Freestyle mass start (30 km):

1. Peter Mlynár 1:15:39,2 h
2. Matej Kazár 1:17:22,0
3. Miroslav Šulek 1:18:53,2

 

women Freestyle mass start (15 km):

1. Paulína Fialková 55:46,6 min
2. Alena Procházková 57:03,9
3. Aneta Smerčiaková 1:07:50,0 h

 

Alena won at least the sprints title yesterday without any problems

 

Spoiler

Men Classical (1,4 km):

1. Peter Mlynár 3:15,41 min,

2. Miroslav Šulek +5,66 s,

3. Rudolf Michalovský +7,75

 

women Classical (1,2 km):

1. Alena Procházková 3:08,60,

2. Aneta Smerčiaková +31,58,

3. Lucia Repková +57,

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 4 weeks later...
Link to comment
Share on other sites

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

THANK YOU SAMI !! One does not forget his epic Olympic gold medal with Niskanen back in 2014 :d

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share

  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • There are currently no grounds to consider Ghiotto as a favourite for the 5000. He has never won any important 5000 event while dominating the 10 km at the same time. Roest always won the same pattern, with Ghiotto losing all his advantage in the last 2 laps. We will see what the Italian's form will be like now and how tactically he wants to play it. I would also not forget about Eitrem from Norway, who is much younger from these two and has a lot of room for development.
    • Some good news: Matt Gaetz is out from his position as attorney general, basically two months before he'd even start.
    • Maybe small but this is our worst performance at the European Championships since the post-Covid period and that's a fact. Germany and Norway surprised with their form here. However, only in Italy are things like this possible, such as changing the head coach of the team with less than two years to go before the home games...
    • In my opinion we can lose to Argentina, if it's 0-1 in a moment. This Davis Cup format is a lottery, especially with the shortened doubles. It's no coincidence that all the favorites can/will can be eliminated in the quarter-finals. The second thing is that Argentina has a very solid team: 2 players in the top 30 + a strong doubles. If you sure to will win with them, you would have to have 2 Sinners in great shape.
    • Both Edin and Retornaz at 6-3 just like rank 2 and 3. Just very small margins on h2h and DSC
    • Godun has been training in Italy and Hungary for over 2 years. It's strange that she didn't take a Hungarian passport. Our predecures are so long that it probably wouldn't make sense.
    • Our worst European Men's Championship in this cycle: no promotion to the 1/2. Retronaz has been in poor form since the beginning of the season. The change of the head coach in the Italian team last spring may have had an impact. Unfortunately, the closer to the games, the worse it gets for us and it should be better because we are the organizers.
    • Sport climbing qualification system: https://images.ifsc-climbing.org/ifsc/image/private/t_q_good/prd/a0ga7v4gwmamb3gxouni.pdf
    • Daniel Huber picked up a kee injury during training at Lillehammer.   Piotr Żyła will skip the season opener because of a knee injury too.
    • Agree with you on this. The only missed category was Long Track Speed Skating where Cornelius Kersten and Ellia Smeding have done a good job getting us involved in this event again after many years absence. He won a Bronze medal at 2023 worlds but both are realistically fringe contenders and main goal is to grow the sport here.   As for our general chances by British standards we tend to do well at the various world championships before a Winter Olympics to raise hopes and then several dont quite deliver when its time. Would prefer the reverse to happen where we save our best for 2026 and help boost our Winter sports growth.
×
×
  • Create New...