Cross-country skiing: Lars Heggen was the strongest
At midday on Wednesday, the men’s 20km classic mass-start of the world junior cross-country skiing championships took place in Schilpario (Italy). Under sunny skies and in perfect conditions, a group of around twenty riders formed the leading group at the halfway stage of the race.
Among them was Romain Vaxelaire from the Vosges. However, the Frenchman was unable to keep up with the pace in the final kilometres and finished eleventh at the finish line. A fine performance for the Bressaud in the face of stiff international competition. Up front, it was Norway who triumphed with Lars Heggen’s solo win ahead of Italy’s Gabriele Matli and his compatriot Leopold Strand.
Germany’s Jakob Elias Moch and Norway’s Filip Skari, who won the classic sprint on Monday, entered the top 5 ahead of Davide Negroni, Marco Pinzani, Ralf Kivil, Federico Pozzi and Pyry Riissanen.
Quentin Viguier, the other Frenchman entered, was thirty-fifth.
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
- Schilpario: Ivan Essonnier and Victor Cullet Calderini qualify for the quarter-finals of the classic sprint at the U23 World Championships
- Schilpario: Maerta Rosenberg becomes U23 world champion in the classic sprint, while France remain stuck in the quarter-finals
- Schilpario: Anton Grahn takes the U23 world title in the classic sprint, Ivan Essonnier sixth in the final
- Schilpario: a look back at the golden day for Sweden’s Maerta Rosenberg and Anton Grahn in the classic sprints at the U23 World Championships
- Schilpario Junior Worlds: Milla Grosberghaugen Andreassen takes gold in the mass start classic, Annette Coupat fourth, Margot Tirloy eighth
