Therese Johaug ends career with home World Cup win in Oslo
Therese Johaug ended her career with victory on the Holmenkollen on Saturday (5 March).
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Therese Johaug ended her career with victory on the Holmenkollen on Saturday (5 March).
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo made history on Sunday with the Norwegian recording a 20th win of the season in the men's 20km cross country mass start classic in Lahti. Having already sealed the crystal globe, Klaebo demonstrated his dominance of the event as he outsprinted compatriot Paal Golberg and Sweden's William Poromaa to take gold. Ad Klaebo's time of 44:13.0 saw him finish 5.4s ahead of Golberg who took silver, with Poromaa just behind to take bronze.
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo made history on Sunday with the Norwegian recording a 20th win of the season in the men's 20km cross country mass start classic in Lahti. Having already sealed the crystal globe, Klaebo demonstrated his dominance of the event as he outsprinted compatriot Paal Golberg and Sweden's William Poromaa to take gold. Ad Klaebo's time of 44:13.0 saw him finish 5.4s ahead of Golberg who took silver, with Poromaa just behind to take bronze.
Jessie Diggins cruised to gold in the women's 10km freestyle to earn USA's first-ever individual cross-country skiing World Championship gold. Diggins finished in a time of 23:40.8, 14 seconds ahead of Sweden's Frida Karlsson, to take USA's first gold of the 2023 Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica.
Ebba Andersson powered to women's skiathlon victory at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica. Andersson finished 22 seconds ahead of compatriot Frida Karlsson to secure a Swedish one-two, with Norway's Astrid Oeyre Slind completing the podium.
Marius Lindvik made it four wins out of four for Norwegian nordic athletes in Oslo on Saturday (5 March) by taking the large hill World Cup contest.
Six-time Olympic medallist Therese Johaug raced for the final time at the World Cup 30km mass start in Oslo on Saturday, sealing the distance World Cup for a fifth time. Johaug, who won three gold medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and relay gold at Vancouver 2010, announced on Friday that she was to retire from the sport after the race, and she signed off in style with her 70th World Cup win.
(Reuters) - Four-times Olympic gold medallist Therese Johaug of Norway announced her retirement from cross-country skiing on Friday, ending a career in which she also amassed 14 world championship gold medals.