Cross-country skiing : the boss is Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo
It was the men’s cross-country skiers who rounded off the second day of competition in the nineteenth edition of the Tour de Ski on Sunday afternoon with the 15-kilometre mass-start classic of the cross-country skiing world cup in Toblach (Italy).
Winner of the skate sprint with authority on Saturday, Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo assumed his current status as overall leader of the tour. As tactically astute as ever, the Norwegian then pulled out all the stops on the final lap of the day to make the difference.
An attack that proved fatal for all his opponents, who were powerless to stop the world tour leader. It was his eighty-first career victory after 159 starts in the elite event.
Behind him, Erik Valnes was smiling again after a lacklustre performance the day before. Up front throughout the 15 kilometres, the Scandinavian played his cards right in the final to take second place on the line. The podium was completed by Haavard Moseby, who climbed onto the podium for the very first time at the age of 25.
Just outside the top 3, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget enabled Norway to sign an incredible quadruple, ahead of a very good Edvin Anger and his compatriot Harald Oestberg Amundsen.
Hugo Lapalus and Richard Jouve right to the end
Hugo Lapalus started with race number 54 and took the time to get back to the front of the pack during the first lap. Once at the front, the Frenchman was one of the race’s driving forces, winning points for the purple jersey of best climber.
Despite a solid performance, the cross-country skier from La Clusaz (Haute-Savoie) was unable to break into the top 10 and eventually had to settle for twelfth place, just behind Mika Vermeulen. Just behind the Haut-Savoyard, his team-mate Richard Jouve pulled off a fine performance.
The Haut-Alpin climbed well in the final and took a very good sixteenth place, making him the new runner-up to Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo in the overall classification of the Tour de Ski. Mathis Desloges finished less than two seconds outside the top 20 in twenty-fourth place, Théo Schely in twenty-ninth and Rémi Bourdin in thirty-first.
The results were more mixed for Jules Lapierre, seventy-fifth, Lucas Chanavat, eighty-second, and Sabin Coupat, eighty-sixth.
The full rankings
The general classification of the Tour de Ski
The overall distance ranking
The overall World Cup standings
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