Nor Johannes Hösflot Klaebo won the sprint in Falun with the classic technique.
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Novák advanced from the qualification from the 21st place and lost a while in the fight for the semifinals. In the ascent, he moved to the fourth place, which he held even when descending to the stadium, but he was not enough for the three in front of him.
“I felt very well in qualifying and I am glad that I managed to advance in the competition,” Novák said in a press release. “I am a little sorry for the result of the race. That’s why I chose a more cautious but worse track in the quarterfinals, and now there were no plates during the race, which I unfortunately couldn’t know, and I lost there. “When my skis almost stopped. In addition, I didn’t stay on the hook in the downhill runs.
Novák finished 15th in Falun, Razýmová was 18th
Klaebo finished without a major problem for his 39th career win. In the finals, he kept the sharp pace of the Russian Sergei Ustugov after the start and during the approach to the finish line he was helped by the fall of his compatriot and qualifying winner Erik Valnes.
Sweden’s Linn Svahn won the sprint in Falun
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Already in qualifying, the leading man of the World Cup, Rus Alexandr Bolshunov, fell to 46th place and finished without points. Nevertheless, the winner of the Tour de Ski has a huge lead at the head of the series.
Twenty-one-year-old Svahnová continued her triumph in Saturday’s classic ten with a mass start and won the fourth sprint of the season, in which she took part. In the final, she narrowly defeated the leading woman of the discipline in Slovenia, Anamaria Lampičová.
The Cross-Country Skiing World Cup continues next weekend in another Swedish resort, Ulricehamn, where free sprints and doubles sprints are on the show.
| Cross-country skiing in Falun (Sweden) – classic sprint: | |
| Men: | |
| 1. Klaebo (Nor.) | 2:48,22 |
| 2. Svensson (SWE) | -1,45 |
| 3. Nerve pain (Nor.) | -2,80 |
| 4. Usťugov (Rus.) | -2,97 |
| 5. Chanavat (Fr.) | -11,18 |
| 6. Valnes (Nor.) | 48,36 |
| …19. Novak | in qualification |
| 47. Sheller | in qualification |
| 69. Kalivoda | in qualification |
| 75. Pechousek (all CR). | in qualification |
| SP standings (after 22 of 28 races): | |
| 1. Bolshunov | 1613 |
| 2. Yakimushkin (both Rus.) | 774 |
| 3. Manificat (Fr.) | 588 |
| 4. Melnichenko | 586 |
| 5. Bělov | 586 |
| 6. Spicov (all Rus.) | 567 |
| …36. Novak | 133 |
| 82. Sheller | 24 |
| 105. Pechousek | 10 |
| 107. Black | 10 |
| 112. Kalivoda | 8 |
| 127. Fellner | 5 |
| 128. Button (all CR) | 5. |
| Women: | |
| 1. Svahnová (SWE) | 3:13,17 |
| 2. Lampičová (Slovenia) | -0,33 |
| 3. Sundlingová | -33 |
| 4. Hagström (both Swedes) | -3,53 |
| 5. T. Wengová | -7,06 |
| 6. Stenseth (both Nor.) | -18,00 |
| … in qualification 43. Beranová | |
| 53. Hynčicová (both CR). | |
| SP standings (after 22 of 28 races): | |
| 1. Digginsová (USA) | 1174 |
| 2. Stupaková (Rus.) | 904 |
| 3. Brennanová (USA) | 879 |
| 4. Andersson (SWE) | 861 |
| 5. Sorinová | 780 |
| 6. Něprjajevová (both Rus.) | 727 |
| …17. Razýmová | 352 |
| 43. Janatová | 92 |
| 51. Beranová | 53 |
| 74. Hynčicová | 20 |
| 90. Nováková (all CR) | 12 |
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