Nilsson wins first World Cup of the season

BySportsbeat

Published 15/12/2018 at 17:36 GMT

Stina Nilsson won her first World Cup cross country race of the season after victory in the individual 1.5km sprint in Davos.

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The Swede was joined on the podium by compatriot Maja Dahlqvist – who finished third. While American Sophie Caldwell was second.

Overall it was a good day for the Swedes as all six made it into the semi-finals with four going into the final.

But in the final Nilsson – the Olympic champion earlier this year in the sprint – took command early on and was never really threatened.

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And after a second-place finish in the first sprint of the season in Lillehammer last month, Nilsson moves to the top of the discipline standings.

It was not a good day for Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla – a former Olympic sprint champion in Sochi – who failed to progress from the quarter-finals.

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