Cross-country skiing: no medal for France in the EYOF 2025 skate sprint
After the first four individual races all ended in medals, the French cross-country skiing team competing at the Bakuriani 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival failed to reach the podium in the free sprint on Saturday.
On the men’s side, Victor Lafrasse, by a whisker, Paul Rousset Vachon and Simon Calandry all failed to reach the semi-finals, while Simon Calandry lost in the quarter-finals. A few minutes later, the title went to Italy’s Daniel Pedranzini, scorer of the hat-trick in Georgia, ahead of his compatriot Luca Pietroboni and Finland’s Kalle Tossavainen.
In the women’s event, Anouchka Neuville and Lucile Coutaz, the survivors of the qualifying round, first of all made it through to the semi-finals with flying colours. Placed in the same heat, however, they were unable to secure a place in the final and saw their day come to an abrupt halt.
It was Switzerland’s Nina Cantieni, who had won the qualifying round, who took the gold medal. Taking the lead in the final from the very first metres, she kept up the pace to win comfortably ahead of Czech Eliska Polonska and Estonian Gerda Kivil.
Full results
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- The full programme for the Bakuriani 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival
- Bakuriani: Anouchka Neuville flag bearer for the French delegation at the EYOWF 2025 opening ceremony
- Anouchka Neuville carried the French flag at the opening ceremony of the EYOWF Bakuriani 2025
- EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: Gaëtane Breniaux takes silver in the individual 5km classic, Anouchka Neuville fourth
- Gaëtane Breniaux, silver medallist in the individual 5km classic at the EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: “I picked up the pace as I went along”.
- EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: Victor Lafrasse wins bronze in the 7.5km individual classic by the narrowest of margins
- “Victor Lafrasse, bronze medallist in the individual 7.5km classic at the EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: “I’m very proud.
- EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: Gaëtane Breniaux takes silver in the individual 5km classic, Anouchka Neuville fourth
- “Hard work pays off”, “A difficult race, mental work”: the words of Gaëtane Breniaux and Anouchka Neuville, who won gold and bronze in the individual skateboard event at the EYOWF Bakuriani 2025.
- Bakuriani: Dauphiné Gaspard Cottaz wins bronze in the individual 10km skate event at EYOWF 2025, Simon Calandry takes fifth place
- “A fine objective which has been achieved”: the satisfaction of Gaspard Cottaz, with a tan in the individual free at the EYOF Bakuriani 2025.
- EYOWF Bakuriani 2025: Les Bleus get six out of eight in the sprint skateboard qualifiers
