Cross-country skiing: Les Bleus make it through the qualifying round
A few minutes after the women qualified for the classic sprint at the U23 cross-country skiing world championships in Schilpario (Italy), it was the men’s turn on Tuesday morning.
Once again, it was Sweden who dominated the proceedings, with Maans Skoglund winning in 2 min 38 sec 36. However, his domination was not unchallenged, with Aleksander Elde Holmboe, Elias Keck, Joergen Schjoelberg, Kristian Kollerud, Ike Melnits, Xavier McKeever, Erik Johansson and Roman Alder all less than 5 seconds behind.
As for the French, Ivan Essonnier, seventeenth at 7.96 seconds, and Victor Cullet Calderini, thirtieth and last qualifier at 10.36 seconds, also booked their tickets for the quarter-finals.
Full results
- The full programme for the Junior and U23 World Championships in Schilpario from 3 to 9 February
- Schilpario: Iselin Bjervig Drivenes dominates qualifying for the classic sprint at the World Junior Championships, all the French women in the quarter-finals
- Schilpario: Filip Skari qualifies for the classic sprint at the Junior Worlds, Quentin Viguier is the only Frenchman to qualify
- Schilpario: Malin Hoelsveen takes the world title in the junior classic sprint ahead of two other Norwegians, Annette Coupat stops in the semi-finals
- Schilpario: Filip Skari becomes world junior classic sprint champion
- Schilpario U23 World Championships: Julie Pierrel, Justine Gaillard, Léonie Besson and Clémence Didierlaurent pass the classic sprint qualifying round
