Lauri Vuorinen Won the Historical World Championship medal immediately on the opening day of Trondheim’s World Cup. Vuorinen was third in the sprint of free skiing.
Never before has a Finnish man won the World Championship medal in sprint skiing. It has been 18 years since the last sprint medal. Virpi Kuitunen was third in Sappori in 2007.
– Not true! It is still true. It is absolutely incredible in a free skiing way to get a medal. This medal has been awaited for quarter of a century, EPN’s narrator Kimmo Porttila Annexed.
– Quite incomprehensible. An incredible day! An incredible accomplishment. Late is always cool. Realism Top10, then he is ninth in the qualifying and is always pulling better through a tight day, expert Kalle Lassila continued.
Lassila reminded that the men’s spin has been Kivirkii in all Finnish skiing.
– The medal has not come and has been applied all the time. Efforts have been made since Palolahti, but there has been no medal, Lassila exclaimed.
Ari Palolahti It was fourth in the Lahti World Championships in 2001. Since then, Finnish sprinters have not got closer to the World Championship medal. Joni Mäki was also fourth at the Beijing Olympics in 2022.
– I believe many sprinters now think “finally!”. It still comes in such a place, that is, in Norway, in the field of cross -country skiing, Lassila Ilakkoi, who represented Finland in the sprint itself in the sprint.
2025: Lauri Vuorinen, 3. (Free Skiing)
2007: Virpi Kuitunen, 7. (Traditional Skiing)
2001: Pirjo Manninen 1; Kati Sundqvist 2. (Free Skiing)
A dramatic start to the medal hunt
Vuorinen already won his semi -finals.
– Look at now, joke! Expert Kalle Lassila At the commentary, the Finn was going to go and there was no faith in his eyes.
Vuorinen came to the semi -final with the shortest possible recovery from the last round. Vuorinen was still last at the beginning of his first round, and then the situation did not look like a final place.
He had only been in the Sprint finals in the World Cup only once in the World Cup. Vuorinen was in Lillehammer in December 2021.
Vuorinen had enough drama in the first round. He won his first round when in the last bend in Germany Jan Stölben and Switzerland Janik Riebli fell.
The victory was taken as expected by the superstar of Norway Johannes Hösflot Kläbo. Silver took Italian Federico Pellegrino. Kläbo’s World Cup gold was meaningful as we are now competing in Kläbo’s hometown of Trondheim.
– I’m speechless. This was so incredible. This audience is as different from what we are used to. This is how we work in Trondheim. This is incredible, Kläbo, who admitted his excitement before the World Cup, said in the winning interview.
Joensuu with acids against the stars
The biggest Finnish hope of the opening of the World Skiing World Championships Jasmmi Joensuu were left ninth. So Joensuu was left out of the final when he was fifth in his semi -final.
In the semi -final, the two largest pre -favorites in Sweden were in the semi -finals in the semi -finals Jonna Sundling and Norwegian Kristine Stavås Skistadbut also Switzerland Nadine fähndrich and the US Julia kern.
At the end, Joensuu faded from the top pace and directly to the top two.
The final stream also came in a time comparison scales, in the top four, a cold ride. Kern passed Joensuu.
– It seemed that the top of the track was just too much. It seemed that the foot started to press too much. He got the bad pace to the stadium. Two skiers passed by. The final straight was the game open to the time comparison point, but could not respond to Julia Kern, Sports Expert Kalle Lassila estimate.
Joensuu has skied through his life and also led the World Cup sprint competition when they entered the World Cup. He first achieved the prize podium in the World Cup sprints in Toblach in a free ski sprint before the turn of the year.
This time, the medals also went to the top three in the semi -final of Joensuu. Gold for Sundling, silver for Skistad and bronze for Fähndrich.
Kähärä in an exceptional paintcroker comparison
Jasmin Fighted from the semi -final to the end, but bent third in his own round. In the first round, there was a huge battle from the sequel. All six investments in the round went to the paint camera comparison.
Joensuu was 0.10 seconds from the straight semi -final and 0.14 seconds from the win. The round went so quiet that Kähärä’s skiing was not enough for the time comparison to the continuation.
– The second rise came in such a group that at least it ran out of space. There was no pace to get a group scattered. We came to the end. This was not my own tactic. It’s a pity that it went like that, Kähärä said.
– I would have liked to get to another ascent and then to the bow in the bow. Now I was on the tail. I got the overtakes in the last invoice. I knew there were tough tightening in the batch. Should have been ahead of them.
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