Norway claims relay titles and World Cup cross country lead with victory

Norway claimed the cross-country World Cup men's room and women's team relay titles on Sunday.

The women's team of Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg, Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug and Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen came home initial in fifty minutes and seventeen.
2 seconds within the 4x5km relay, previous the u.  s. and Republic of Finland, reports Xinhua.

In the men's room 4x7.5k relay competition, Norway's Sjur Roethe, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Bob Mathias Rund green And European Haagen Krogh clocked an hour, eight minutes and twenty nine seconds.Russia and Italia came second and third, respectively

Therese Johaug underlined her dominance in World Cup skiing by winning the women's free vogue race during a 1-2 Norwegian end on Sat, whereas Maurice Magnificat of France captured the public lavatory 15k race.
He beat Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Kingdom of Norway, the World Cup leader, by 10.8 seconds whereas Sergey Ustiugov of Russia placed third, thirteen seconds behind. Sundby was well ahead overall with one,502 points, his associate Finn Haagen Krogh a remote second with 917 when putting fifth, and another Norwegian, lover Northug boy., third on 801 when not competitory on Sat.
Alex MD of Saint Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que. had another prime ten end putting seventh. Devon Kershaw was thirty eighth, Graeme Killick, 63rd and Knute Johnsgaard, was 76th to spherical out the Canadians.

"The snow was extremely thereforeft and utterly totally different than yesterday so it had been very slow nowadays and that i had to figure the total manner," same MD. "I extremely wished to undertake and catch on to somebody however it appeared I skied alone the complete day that created things robust – particularly within the windy elements of the course."

Harvey was within the seek for the medals, sport within the top-three for the primary 1/2 the race before fatigue began to set in and he born off the pace. "I felt pretty smart nowadays. i used to be within the top-five most of the manner. i am positively proud of a top-10 result. that's the goal on every occasion I race," same MD, of Saint Ferreol les Neiges, Que. "Our wax techs did an excellent job on the skis nowadays. Overall it had been an honest day."

Johaug lined the 10-kilometre distance quickest for her eleventh success of the season. She edged Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen by four.6 seconds.

Jessica Higgins of the u.  s. was nine.3 seconds back in third for her second dais of the season.
Johaug leads the World Cup standings with one,484 points, followed by another 2 Norwegians. Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg is second with one,274 when finishing ninth, and Heidi Weng is third with one,090 following her sixth-place end.
Emily Nishikawa was the highest Canadian in forty fourth, followed by Cendrine Brown, 54th, Dahria Beatty, 57th, Maya MacIssac-Jones, 61st and Katherine Stewart-Jones, 62nd.