15:49. For the second time after 2023, a cross-country skiing cup event took to the streets of Tallinn (Estonia) this Wednesday. It was the women who opened the hostilities with the sprint skate qualifiers. Switzerland’s Nadine Faehndrich set the fastest time under the Estonian sun.
In doing so, she confirmed her good form following her silver medal at the World Championships in Trondheim (Norway) in the same format and her victory in the Engadine Marathon (Switzerland). The 29-year-old cross-country skier finished ahead of Finland’s Jasmi Joensuu, wearing the red bib, and Sweden’s Johanna Hagstroem.
In the French camp, there will be three in the finals. Léna Quintin was eighteenth, Mélissa Gal twenty-fifth and France Pignot – making her first World Cup start – a superb twenty-eighth.
Julie Pierrel, meanwhile, failed to make it through qualifying, finishing forty-eighth.
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