Cross-country skiing: Gaspard Rousset’s fine victory in the FESA Cup
This Sunday morning, the third and final day of the FESA Cup cross-country ski race in Falcade (Italy) got underway with the men’s 20km classic pursuit. Eleventh at the start, 46 seconds behind the leader, Féclazien Gaspard Rousset managed to catch up at the halfway stage.
From then on, it was a large group that led the way and, in the final, around fifteen of them were vying for victory. Among them were ten Italians who had died of hunger at home and two Frenchmen, Gaspard Rousset and Luc Primet, who also made a fine comeback.
In the final hectometres, it was the Savoyard who proved to be the strongest, winning brilliantly ahead of the experienced Dietmar Noeckler and the Franc-Comtois Luc Primet, who scored his first FESA Cup podium finish. For Gaspard Rousset, it was also a first, ashe won the FESA Cup for seniors for the first time.
Milhan Laissus was twenty-third and Mathieu Blanc, third at the start, thirty-first.
Full results
- The French selection for the Falcade FESA Cup
- Falcade FESA Cup: seven French make it through the classic sprint qualifier, Quentin Viguier in the U20 top 5
- Falcade FESA Cup: Gaspard Rousset fifth in the classic sprint won by Elias Keck, Janik Weidlich wins in the U20s
- Falcade FESA Cup: all the French women pass the classic sprint qualifier
- Falcade FESA Cup: Daphné Patois wins the U20 sprint classic
- FESA Cup de Falcade: Gaspard Cottaz third in the U20 individual skateboard event
- Falcade FESA Cup: Mathieu Blanc on the podium in the individual 10km skate race
- Margot Tirloy wins the U20 skateboard individual at the FESA Cup in Falcade, Anna-Maria Dietze wins in the senior category
