Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Maiken Caspersen Falla continue fine form with Drammen World Cup wins
BySportsbeat
Updated 07/03/2018 at 22:18 GMT
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Maiken Caspersen Falla followed up their Olympic medals with wins in the Drammen cross-country World Cup sprint.
Klaebo logra su tercer oro con otra exhibición en el esprint por equipos
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Falla, who took sprint silver and team sprint bronze at last month's Olympics, beat Stina Nilsson to the line in Norway to take a third sprint win of the season, in front of a home crowd.
The 27-year-old clocked a time of 3:10.18 over the 1.2km sprint classic course, beating her Swedish rival into second place by 1.39s.
America's Jessica Diggins came home another half second later to grab third, while Katja Visnar finished a distant sixth, more than 20s behind Falla and 13s behind fifth placed Krista Parmakoski.
Those results mean Falla holds a 48-point lead over Nilsson in the sprint World Cup standings, with just one round left to race.
The overall World Cup standings remain the same, however, with Heidi Weng still leading the way on 1042 points, ahead of fellow Norwegian Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg on 1223 points.
In the men's event Klaebo showed his sprint, team sprint and 4x10km relay gold medals from PyeongChang were no fluke as he took a fifth sprint World Cup win of the season.
That extends his points advantage in the sprint World Cup to 239 over Italy's Federico Pellegrino, who could only finish tenth in Drammen.
Klaebo came home 1.04s ahead of fellow Norwegian Eirik Brandsdal, with Russia preventing an all home podium.
Alexander Bolshakov finished 3.78s behind Klaebo, with three more Norwegians behind him in fourth, fifth and sixth.
Klaebo's win also extends his overall cross-country World Cup advantage to 328 points over compatriot Martin Johnsrud Sundby with five rounds left to race.
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