Para cross-country skiing: Cléo Blanc in the top 10 of the skate sprint at the Jakuszyce World Cup

Para cross-country skiing: a top 10 finish for Cléo Blanc in the World Cup

The Para-cross World Cup in Jakuszyce (Poland), the last round of the season, kicked off on Wednesday with the skating sprints. For the French team, who were there without their leaders, it was Cléo Blanc who put in the best performance.

Tenth in the final ranking after being eliminated at the semi-final stage, she did better than her compatriot Anaïs Delavier, twelfth. Norway’s Vilde Nilsen won the standing event, ahead of Sydney Peterson of the USA and Ukraine’s Liudmyla Liashenko.

Victory in the men’s standing event went to Ukraine’s Grygorii Vovchynskyi ahead of his compatriots Serafym Drahun and Dmytro Sereda. In the women’s sits, the Americans Joshua Sweeney, stronger than Kazakhstan’s Yerbol Khamitov and Ukraine’s Pavlo Bal, and Oksana Masters, ahead of Germany’s Merle Menje and Norway’s Indira Liseth, dominated the day’s race.

In the visually impaired category, France’s Maxime Gayet (guided by Alexis Bernard) took thirteenth place, having exited in the qualifying heat. Up front, victory went to Sweden’s Zebastian Modin (guided by Emil Talsi), while the Czech Republic’s Simona Bubenickova (guided by David Srutek) won the women’s category.

Full results

Standing

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Ladies

Visually impaired

Men

Ladies

Sitting

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Ladies

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