The Trondheim World Championships have begun with a show for Norwegian athletes. After the opening weekend, Norway leads the medal table sovereignly.
According to the start, it is likely that the Norwegian team will break the medal record for the World Championships in their own name this week, 13 gold medals from the 2019 and 2021 World Cup. In Trondheim, the number of species that has grown from one of the previous races to 25 to 25 is helped in Trondheim.
As we could expect from the last value races and the results of this season’s World Cup, the dominance of the race has been the strongest in men’s cross -country skiing.
– Norwegian men win all trips except one, Norwegian professor of sports physiology and former national level top skier Öyvind Sandbak Evaluate Sports in January.
After two trips, Sandbakkin prediction is still valid. Sandbak named Norwegian men’s total domination as the biggest threat Iivo Niskanenwho became ill after the Falun World Cup and is unable to participate in the Trondheim World Cup.
Sandbakk also said that at least two Norwegians will see at the podium of each men’s personal race. This estimate went wrong immediately on the opening day when Italian Federico Pellegrino and Finnish Lauri Vuorinen were able to break the Norwegian front Johannes Hösflot Kläbo Winning Thursday’s sprint.
However, in Saturday’s Skiathlon, the marching order returned to normal: Norway took a quarter win under Kläbo.
If it has been difficult to win the Norwegians in recent years, Trondheim’s specific conditions will increase the challenge.
In recent years, the skiing machinery, which has been tuned to Norway, has offered a cold ride to opponents in recent years and time again.
From squat to victory
The audio clip below is an indelible part of Finnish ski history. When Trondheim held the World Skiing last time in 1997, the race ended Mika Myllylän Sovereign world championship at 50 kilometers.
The beginning of the Games was far from the brilliant in Finland. On the opening day, the men’s 30 kilometers ended at the Finnish maintenance team’s crisis meeting when Myllylä was the best Finn in the tenth. Finland’s service manager Harri Aaltonen According to both press and maintenance, the result was a disaster.
– After that, the service team went to test the slip late into the night and returned to work early in the morning. The dreams stayed for a couple of hours, Aaltonen recalled.
The work yielded results. In the final race, Finnish maintenance was able to offer its skiers a winning equipment.
One of the biggest surprises of the race was Satu Salonen Anchor section in women’s message. Salonen overtook the stadium in the invoice of Italian Manuela di center And the Finnish women for the World Championship bronze.
– In Trondheim, the patterns of the ski had to be much rounder, slim and lower than elsewhere. Also, the lubrication had to start with a harder under lubrication and put the coating either by the weather or by one degree colder.
A completely different snow
Although the 1997 World Cup started poorly in Finland, Finnish maintenance did not arrive in Trondheim from its cold. During the previous year’s World Championships, maintenance had collected snow in the jars, the composition of which was analyzed in Finland.
– The amount of sodium chloride was a hundred times more than Lahti in Trondheim’s snow, Aaltonen said.
In the general language of sodium chloride, the high level of salt in Trondheim is explained by the climate and more specifically in the ocean. The Granåsen Ski Stadium is less than ten kilometers off the Atlantic coast. The salt content of the Atlantic is many times higher than in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
– Salt’s hygroscopic properties dry the snow surface and shape the way the snow turns into a water layer. At the same time, the snow crystal structure is changing, Aaltonen said.
These factors also influence Oslo and Drammen, which are in the immediate vicinity of the Atlantic. Of the familiar Norwegian racing venues in the World Skiing World Cup, only Lillehammer is located inland, as is the time of the Cup, the beitrozen.
In the latter Kerttu Niskanen Celebrates the 10 -kilometer break (P) victory in December 2022.
In recent years, Trondheim has only competed in the World Cup for two weekends. In 2020 Iivo Niskanen was the second fastest in the 30-kilometer chase (p), but in last season’s World Championships, he placed only 14th in his 10-kilometer break (P) on his parade trip.
There have been significant differences between teams in and within the team’s era of fluoride ban. For example, in the aforementioned Trondheim 10 mile race Markus Vuorela Made the divanity of his life and hit Niskanen, for whom the race was the worst traditional temporary start since 2016.
Although 33-year-old Niskanen has won four valuable golds in his career and has achieved a total of nine medals, he has only once on the podium in the World Cup in Norway. Niskanen was second in Holmenkollen 50 kilometers in 2017.
As the graphics below, the men of Norway have been in a staggering lead in the World Cup in the Vuonoma.
The Norwegian men who have controlled the World Cup have been more successful in their home country than abroad. Such results would not be possible without the success of the Norwegian ski maintenance with a strong percentage.
Fast weather variations
Trondheim is also known as a place where the weather can change in dozens of minutes several times. The World Championships are skied on a ski slope, which is largely similar in composition as in other countries. The situation will change if it rains on the trail that is significantly different from Finland’s conditions.
Professor Öyvind Sandbak estimates that the Norwegians will benefit significantly from local knowledge, especially when the weather varies suddenly.
– Many of the Norwegian national team service team and researchers either come from Trondheim or have received their training at Trondheim University in NTNU. They have done a lot of local research and know the area as their own pockets, Sandbak said.
This is where the Norwegian party began. Kläbo dominated men’s sprint on Thursday.
On Friday, Jarl Magnus Riiber anchors Norway’s combined mixed team champion.
On Saturday, Kläbo continued to win in Skiathlon.
A moment later, it was Riiber’s turn to celebrate the first personal gold of men at Granåsen Stadium.
On Sunday, Gyda Westvold Hansen had time to enjoy the women’s combined final.
However, Norway has not won everything. Here, Ebba Andersson of Sweden (right) is defeating on Sunday with the slightest possible difference in Therese Johaug (left) skiing in front of his home audience. The winner was only revealed in the paint camera image.
On Thursday, the Women’s Sprint’s victory was celebrated by the Swede when Jonna Sundling held on to her throne of the women’s sprint.
Research mentioned by Sandbake has a long tradition in Norway. They date back to 1990, when the Norwegian top-level sports unit Olympiatoppen was founded.
According to Sandbakk, at that time, a continuous research cooperation, including the Norwegian Ski Association, the Biathlon Association, the Olympic Toppes and a dozen research institutes, one of which is NTNU.
– The 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics were a start to cooperation that continues. I wonder if the Norwegians don’t get this benefit.
“The more the weather varies, the more it benefits the Norwegians,” Sandbak said.
There has also been long -term research on creams and patterning in Finland, which is currently the responsibility of Vuokatti and KiHU units. However, the scale is many times smaller than Norwegian colleagues.
Fluorie ban with World Cup debut
The Trondheim World Championships are also special for the equipment because they are the first adult value races in the era of the fluoride ban.
Fluorine creams are best to abandon dirt and water, which causes the ski slide to retain its efficiency for longer than non-fluorine ski.
It is in the suddenly changing and humid conditions of Trondheim, fluoride creams would be the most favorable to even out the differences between teams.
During the first week of the World Championships, watercourses were seen and mainly about five degrees Celsius. Although the weather was far from winter, Trondheim has seen worse in March.
– When we were in Trondheim doing tests exactly one year before the start of the race, the temperature rose to 15 at its highest. It was a really harsh winter, project manager for Finland’s maintenance Teemu Lemmettylä reported in January.
At the current World Cup Heikki Tonter The results of Finnish maintenance have varied. However, Lauri Vuorinen’s highlights are in memory, which opened the team’s medal account immediately on the opening day.
A surprise list is available for Tuesday
On Tuesday, Trondheim will compete for men’s and women’s 10 kilometers of temporary start with traditional skiing. Tonteri hit Sports that the day could become surprising.
– There’s a temperature plus one, plus two. Rain will come, but whether it is water, snow, chute, is not known. Everyone needs to be prepared. It’s a threat, it is an opportunity.