Krueger gets first win as Musgrave registers maiden World Cup podium
BySportsbeat
Published 16/12/2017 at 14:38 GMT
Simen Hegstad Krueger won his first ever World Cup race on an historic day in Toblach, Italy which also included a first ever World Cup podium finish for Great Britain’s Andrew Musgrave.
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The 24-year-old Norwegian beat France’s Maurice Manificat by 10.6s over the 15km interval start free course, with Musgrave picking up bronze a further 0.9s behind – Britain’s first cross country World Cup podium for two years.
Canada’s Alex Harvey finished fourth, with Russia’s Sergey Ustiugov rounding out the top five.
Current World Cup leader Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo finished back in tenth, but did enough to maintain his lead atop the overall standings – now 250 points ahead of Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov.
Canada’s Dario Cologna set the fastest time over the first 2.1km, with Musgrave just three seconds back in fourth and Manificat and Krueger down in eighth and ninth.
As the race reached the half way stage Musgrave had the fastest time over 7.1km, two seconds ahead of Krueger with Manificat a further 1.2s back.
And the Brit was again setting the pace at the 8.5km mark, before the Norwegian took the advantage at the 10km check point.
Musgrave was still the second fastest with just 1.5km to go, but Manificat was only 0.4s behind and the Frenchman did enough in the closing stages to beat the Brit by 0.9s.
Klaebo leads the overall World Cup standings on 652 points, with Manificat leading the distance standings on 317, 53 ahead of Krueger with Musgrave back in 11th.
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