13:00. A few minutes after Léonie Perry’s magnificent qualification for her first cross-country skiing World Cup event, three French athletes have secured their ticket for the quarter-finals of the sprint skate in Toblach (Italy), the first stage of the Tour de Ski.
The best of them was Lucas Chanavat, who finished on the podium between the winner Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo and a solid Janik Riebli. In the top 3 in the same format in Davos (Switzerland), the Haut-Savoyard will be joined by his compatriots Richard Jouve, twenty-second, and Rémi Bourdin, twenty-sixth.
For the other French riders, the adventure came to an end in this qualifying round, starting with Théo Schely in fifty-fourth place. Behind him were Hugo Lapalus, fifty-eighth, Sabin Coupat, seventy-fourth, Mathis Desloges, seventy-first, and Jules Lapierre, ninety-fourth.
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