Cross-country skiing : another Swedish double in Trondheim
This Sunday, the world caravan met up with individual skateboarders to conclude the second stage of the 2025/2026 cross-country skiing world cup season in Trondheim (Norway). First it was the women cross-country skiers who competed on the Granåsen track.
The race was the scene ofa real battle. Over the whole 10 kilometres, the gaps between the two front-runners remained minute. Sweden’s Ebba Andersson, who took the lead at the halfway stage, saw her lead gradually shrink: Moa Ilar, who was 8.9 seconds back at the fifth kilometre, was 6 seconds back at the 6.9 km mark and then just 1.6 seconds back at the 9.2 km mark.
Despite this constant closing gap, Ebba Andersson held on right to the end, eventually winning by just two seconds. It was her first World Cup win of the winter and the ninth of her career.
“It’s always a great feeling to be on the top step of the podium. To finish the weekend with the red bib [in the overall distance rankings] is something I never imagined. I have a lot of good memories here, so it’s always a pleasure to come back,” Ebba Andersson told the FIS.
Sweden’s Moa Ilar confirmed her good start to the season with her second podium of the winter, after the individual classic in Ruka (Finland), and her fifth in her career. “I’m very happy with this race. It’s great to be back on the podium in skateboarding,” the Swede told FIS.
The podium was completed by American Jessie Diggins – winner of the skiathlon on Saturday – who finished 16.5 seconds behindEbba Andersson.
The experienced Norwegian Astrid Oeyre Slind put in a very consistent performance and just missed out on the podium, just 2.9 seconds off third place. For her part, Sweden’s Jonna Sundling, who was in the lead until halfway through the race, had to settle for fifth place.
In sixth place, the surprise of the day came from 21-year-old Italian Maria Gismondi, who posted the best World Cup result of her career. Norwegian Nora Sanness was seventh and Sweden’s Frida Karlsson eighth. Germany’s Helen Hoffmann, who wore the best U23 green bib last winter, scored her first individual World Cup top 10 by finishing ninth. The top 10 was completed by Norway’s Heidi Weng.
In the French camp, Léna Quintin was the only Frenchwoman in the running after the withdrawals of Léonie Perry and Delphine Claudel from the Vosges. The Bornandine suffered on the Trondheim course (Norway) and had to be content with 59th place, more than two minutes from victory.
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