Kick-off in Falun
Top result for Stadlober at the start in Falun
Teresa Stadlober and Mika Vermeulen both took top places at the Cross-Country World Cup in Falun on Saturday. The 32-year-old from Salzburg finished fifth in the individual 10 km classic race after a strong final lap, while the 25-year-old from Styria came back shortly afterwards in seventh place after recovering from the flu. In the women's race, Ebba Andersson from Sweden celebrated a superior victory in the World Championship dress rehearsal, while Iivo Niskanen from Finland won the men's race.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Stadlober was 55.6 seconds behind Andersson, with the ÖSV athlete just 27 seconds off the podium. The ÖSV athlete missed out on fourth place, taken by US World Cup leader Jessie Diggins in the absence of Norway's Therese Johaug, by 18.3 seconds. Stadlober had recently been training in Switzerland. Her focus is already on the World Championships starting on February 26th in Trondheim, she emphasized. Fifth place is Stadlober's fourth best result this winter. She had already achieved a second, third and fourth place before that.
"To be back in the racing action now and then to come fifth in the individual start is of course very pleasing," said Stadlober. "We had difficult conditions today, it snowed at times and the track was also pretty run down. All in all, today was just great and it's great to get back into it after a training block."
Vermeulen in the top field after the flu
Vermeulen had missed the last World Cup in Cogne due to the flu, but in Sweden the ÖSV athlete was able to keep up with the world's best again straight away. In the end, Vermeulen was 45.8 seconds down on the victorious Niskanen, with the podium some 28 seconds away. Michael Föttinger (+2:27.6 min.) finished in 64th place.
On Sunday (11 a.m. men, 2 p.m. women), a 20-km skating competition with mass start will take place in the Swedish winter sports resort. "The course has many long downhill sections, which is why the field usually stays together until the end and the mass start race usually ends in a mass sprint," said Vermeulen, who is aiming for a top 5 finish.
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