Kerttu Niskanen got punished after all – he lost important points in the overall World Cup race

Kerttu Niskanen was penalized for the events of the city sprint in Drammen.

Kerttu Niskanen was the best Finnish 11th in the Drammen city sprint qualifying today.

In the heats, he fought for a place in the semi-finals, including the USA Julia Kernof Sweden Maja Dahlqvist and Norway Lotta Udnes Wengia against.

Niskanen changed lanes directly to the Italian on the final straight Nicole Monsornon in front of. The Italian fell. For example, a Viaplay expert Sami Jauhojärvi according to the situation, there was no ambiguity about the guilt of the Finnish skier.

You can see the situation in the video at the main picture of the story.

Even after the end of the race, Niskanen was marked in 13th place, but when the official result lists appeared on the website of the International Ski Federation, a yellow card and the inscription RAL or “Ranked As Last” appeared after Niskanen’s name. Niskanen was relegated to the last place in the round, in 30th place.

Niskanen got 22 World Cup points from the race. Without the rejection of the batch stage, he would have received 56 of them.

The points are important for the overall World Cup competition. Niskanen is third in the overall race, with the Falun race weekend, the Tallinn sprint and the Lahti race weekend still remaining.

Tiril Udnes Weng was third in the sprint race and increased his points lead in the overall standings to Jessie Diggins to 145 points.

Niskanen is 241 points behind Weng and 96 points behind Diggins. Diggins reached 21st place in the Drammen sprint, so without his penalty, Niskanen would have narrowed the point difference and the fight for second place in the World Cup.