14:50. Ida Marie Hagen is already the strongest. Although she started the cross-country ski pursuit in the first gundersen of the 2024/2025 World Cup 34 seconds behind the winner, the outgoing winner of the crystal globe produced a masterful race.
By the end of the first of the two 2.5km laps, she was 10.7 seconds ahead of her closest chaser. Finally, at the end of the race, the Norwegian won by 49 sec 0 ahead of her compatriot Gyda Westvold Hansen and 55 sec 6 ahead of Austrian Lisa Hirner.
Léna Brocard from Austria, nineteenth at the start, put in a fine cross-country race to start her winter in fourteenth place. Germany’s Maria Gerboth, in the lead at the start of the pursuit, finished fifth behind Haruka Kasai and ahead of Nathalie Armbruster.
Full results
- Lillehammer: Germany’s Maria Gerboth wins the Gundersen jump, Léna Brocard nineteenth
- Lillehammer: Haruka Kasai wins the first reserve jump of the winter, Léna Brocard outside the top 20
- Regular top 10 finishes for Laurent Muhlethaler and Mattéo Baud, podium finishes for Léna Brocard: the French team’s ambitions for the 2024/2025 World Cup
- Léna Brocard tells Nordic Magazine on the morning of the start of the World Cup: “The aim is to try and finish on the podium”.
- France in five for the rest of the World Cup in Lillehammer, where the women start the competition
