Cross-country skiing: Maerta Rosenberg was a cut above the rest
On Tuesday, during the women’s classic sprint at the U23 cross-country skiing world championships in Schilpario (Italy), there was Maerta Rosenberg and the others. After dominating the qualifying round, the Swede confirmed her superiority in thehead-to-head competition.
First in her quarter-final and then in her semi-final, the 22-year-old Scandinavian won the grand final by more than 5 seconds from twenty-nine World Cup starts. Under the Italian sun, she became the U23 world champion in the classic sprint, succeeding Sonjaa Schmidt, Jasmin Kähärä, Moa Hansson, Lisa Lohmann, Emma Ribom and Moa Lundgren.
On today’s podium, she is joined by Andorra’s Gina Del Rio and her compatriot Elin Henriksson. Norway’s Anniken Sand and Maria Hartz Melling and Italy’s Nadine Laurent follow in the rankings.
It was a complicated competition for the French girls, with Clémence Didierlaurent, Léonie Besson, Justine Gaillard and Julie Pierrel being knocked out in 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
- Schilpario: Ivan Essonnier and Victor Cullet Calderini qualify for the quarter-finals of the classic sprint at the U23 World Championships
