Cross-country skiing: a historic top 10 for Léonie Perry at the 2026 Olympics
A few days after placing sixteenth in the opening skiathlon of the cross-country skiing events at the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games in Tesero (Italy), Léonie Perry from the Vosges did even better in the individual 10km skate race at midday on Thursday.
Tenth at the finish, the cross-country skier from La Bresse (Vosges) went down in French women’s cross-country skiing history as the seventh Frenchwoman to score an individual top 10 at the Olympics.
Before them, only Isabelle Remy (ninth in the pursuit in 1992), Sophie Villeneuve (ninth in the individual 15km skate race then tenth in the pursuit in 1994), Karine Laurent Philippot (eighth in the 15km skate mass-start in 2002 then tenth in the 30km classic mass-start in 2010), Aurore Jean (sixth in the 30km skate mass-start in 2014), Coraline Thomas-Hugue (seventh in the 30km skate mass-start in 2014) and Delphine Claudel (ninth in the skiathlon then seventh in the 30km skate mass-start in 2022) had all achieved this performance.
- Imperial Frida Karlsson triumphs in the skiathlon, Léonie Perry sixteenth
- “It really gives me confidence for the 10 km skate”: sixteenth in the skiathlon, Léonie Perry looks back on her race for Nordic Magazine
- Frida Karlsson crushes the individual skate and wins a second gold medal, Léonie Perry in the top 10
