Finnish quartet Kerttu Niskanen, Perttu Hyvärinen, Iivo Niskanen and Krista Pärmäkoski won the Norwegian mixed message.
13.3. 12:17 • Updated March 13. 12:38
Finland took second place in the mixed message of the Falun World Cup. The race was 4×5 kilometers. The Finnish skiers were Kerttu Niskanen, Perttu Hyvärinen, Iivo Niskanen and Krista Pärmäkoski.
Pärmäkoski wrote Norway in the last World Cup skiing race of his career Therese Johaugin past the anchor section in the struggle. The message was won by the United States.
The mixed message was seen for the second time in the Ski World Cup program. Ruka was in the program for the first time in 2002. At that time, Finland took a double win. At that time, men skied 10 km sections and women 5 km sections. Now everyone is skiing the five-mile stretches.
The United States skied an anchor victory on Sunday Jessica Digginsin under. The opening leg in the United States skied Rosie Brennan. In the middle men’s sections, the team took the message Zak Ketterson and Scott Patterson. The men’s duo didn’t have perhaps such harsh merits compared to their rivals, but were able to keep the United States at the top.
– Was really fun. We succeeded as a team. We live on the road for four months. It’s fun to end the season this way. I’m really proud of the guys, Diggins glowed in the FIS winner interview with the International Ski Federation.
– Our goal was to stay out of trouble and stay with the crowd and let Diggins do what he does best. It worked, Brennan glowed.
Less than a kilometer before the end, Diggins, Johaug and Pärmäkoski started to tear properly in the winning race. Diggins escaped from Pärmäkoski and Johaug. However, Pärmäkoski was able to defeat Johaug in the second place fight. Johaug tried to keep up the pace with the anchor section, but couldn’t get away from the others.
In the first leg, seven teams broke away from the others. Kerttu Niskanen brought Finland into the exchange with the top five. After Perttu Hyvärinen’s part, the stills did not change. Hyvärinen was the seventh to send Iivo Niskanen.
About Norwegian men Simen Hegstad Krüger and Didrik Tönseth kept up the pace and were able to break up the crowd. However, Iivo Niskanen had the competition. The ski also worked when Niskanen slipped to the top for a while in the middle. Pärmäkoski was able to leave for the anchor section in the fifth place.