- It's a dream for me and I'm so happy, I have no words.

I had good support from the team, says Ganna in SVT's broadcast and tells that he will celebrate with the family.

Ganna started second last and went on knock from the start.

Halfway after 14.9 km, the Italian led by 20 seconds ahead of Rohan Dennis

Tobias Ludvigsson, the only Swede in the competition, had some hopes of becoming a top 10-15 something but had too big problems with the body to do himself justice and finished 44th.

- He became almost paralyzed in the left side and felt numbness and had to get up to get blood supply, he had to roll and shake his legs and it took far too much time, says national team captain Lucas Persson to SVT Sport.