Norway's cross-country star Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has won his second title at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld. The 22-year-old won in the team sprint over 6 x 1.6 kilometers with his teammate Emil Iversen before the Russians Gleb Retiwich and Alexander Bolschunov (+1.88 seconds), who had won the silver medal in the ski championship. Bronze went to the Italians Federico Pellegrino and Francesco de Fabiani (+4.03 seconds).
Klæbo had already won the title in the sprint at the start of the World Ski Championships. He is thus the first athlete at the World Championships in Tyrol, who has won two gold medals. Overall, it is the third medal for the Norwegian at Nordic World Ski Championships (bronze 2017 in Lahti in the sprint). At the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang Klæbo last year won sprint, team sprint and the relay.
The German duo Sebastian Eisenlauer and Janosch Brugger already failed in the semifinals. "The team is twice as bitter, and if I were alone, I'd say, well, 'idiot'," said Brugger, who had broken a lot on his last lap. Eisenlauer said after the sporting disappointment: "It was not the best day of both of us."
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Maja Dahlqvist (left) and Stina Nilsson
No medals for the German athletes
The Swedes Stina Nilsson and Maja Dahlqvist won gold in the team sprint in classical technique. The duo sat over 6 x 1.2 kilometers only on the home straight before Slovenia (Katja Visnar, Anamarija Lampic) and Norway (Ingvild Flugstad Ösberg, Maiken Caspersen Falla) by. Falla had already won the gold medal in the sprint.
Also for the women it was not enough for the German athletes for the medal ranks: Victoria Carl, who had reached the final in the individual sprint, and Sandra Ringwald ended up in sixth place in the finals.
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