As the best Finn, Kerttu Niskanen was ninth in the 15 kilometers of the free skiing style of the World Ski Championships in Planica. Krista Pärmäkoski came in 17th place. Eveliina Piippo from Finland got in between.
15:11•Updated 15:27
The best Finnish speed was held in the women’s 10 km freestyle skiing race at the World Ski Championships in Planica Kerttu Niskanen. The Finn was ninth, behind the winner of the race, the United States About Jessie Diggins 56.6 seconds. It was Diggins’ and the USA’s first World Cup gold in individual cross-country skiing.
Niskanen injured his leg on Saturday before the combined race, and was not involved in Sunday’s pair sprint. Niskanen described the condition of his leg as “awful” after Tuesday’s race.
Sports expert Kalle Lassila saw that Niskasen had enough endurance, but there was room for improvement in the rhythm changes in free skiing.
According to Niskanen, endurance was required in the race. Suomalaištahti was sixth in the last intermediate point before the finish. In the last 2.3 kilometers, however, there was a lot of difference between the other top names.
– Got to work all the time. The feeling was that the episode was just fine. I didn’t freeze so that the wall would have met. Now I was left wondering how the end turned out so badly. I lost a lot of places in that. I can’t say what happened, Niskanen stated.
Even the pipe froze at the end
The second best Finn Eveliina Piippo was the 16th Piippo was considered to be a skier in his twenties ready to surprise on a hard track, but it turned out differently. Piippo was in ninth place at the last intermediate point.
– I don’t know if I started too hard. I blacked out quite badly, Piippo said.
– I was just so tired that my legs couldn’t handle the last descents.
Expert Ville Nousiainen according to Piippo’s speed distribution was commendable, but after the uphill section Piippo froze.
Piippo admitted that the difficult conditions basically served him.
– You can only blame yourself, Piippo stated.
Pärmäkoski was surprised by the load of the climbs – he uploaded a direct speech about his results
Krista Pärmäkoski was the 17th He was half a second behind Piipo. The difference to Diggiins was 1 minute and 15.4 seconds.
– I thought that I would set off reasonably calmly and take it easy. That’s how it went. The climbs were surprisingly tiring when you had to pedal on them. Not a good day by any means, Pärmäkoski said and described the weather as slower than before because of the new snow.
Pärmäkoski could not say about the importance of skiing in the end result of the day, because there was no proper point of comparison.
Pärmäkoski was sixth in the combined distance of the World Championships and together in the pair sprint Jasmi to Joensuu with in the same place. The Finn spoke directly about his level at the World Championships.
– Of course, I would have hoped for better results. Earlier races were shown today. Let’s hope for a miracle that he will return to the next races, Pärmäkoski stated.
Joensuu was 32 on Tuesday.
The women still have a relay race and a traditional 30-kilometer joint start race ahead of them at the World Championships in Planica on Thursday. The Finns still have medal hopes set for both.