Therese Johaug absolutely superior! – the Norwegian star crushed the others in his comeback race | Sport

Therese Johaug, 35, has returned with a bang to the top competitions. He won the Norwegian championship by almost three minutes.

Norwegian skiing legend Therese Johaug gave a storm warning about his condition at the Norwegian championships in Lillehammer. The superstar, who ended his career two years ago, won the 30-kilometer intermediate start race on freestyle skiing in superior style.

The 35-year-old Johaug was two minutes and 49 seconds better than the second-placed American Sophia Laukli. The young American is a tough gauge, as he was, for example, the strongest climber in the final climb of the Tour de Skin Alpe Cermis at the turn of the year.

It is also telling that Johaug and the Norwegian national team are among the current top skiers by Heidi Weng the difference between them was three minutes and 34 seconds.

Weng was second in the USA in the 20 km free combined start race at the Falun World Cup last week. Jessie Diggins after.

Last year, he celebrated the individual World Championship bronze Astrid Öyre Slind on the other hand, bowed with a difference of more than three minutes. Slind was fourth and Weng fifth. It was the third in the race Magni Smedaas.

Johaug uploaded wild intervals from here. Already at the first, one-and-a-half-kilometer intermediate point, Johaug’s gap to Weng, who was second, was five seconds.

At about ten kilometers, we could see a sensational progress. She ran an interval almost 50 seconds faster than Sophie Laukli of the United States, who was second. A few kilometers later, the lead had grown to just over a minute.

At 24 kilometers, he basked in a two and a half minute lead.

Crazy sequel

The ski competition was Johaug’s second since the decision to stop two years ago. He won the 17 km free intermediate start race held in Engadin, Switzerland, with a huge three and a half minute difference from the successful skier of the past years, Poland Justyna to Kowalczyk.

Johaug is known to be interested in skiing the 50 km free combined start race at next winter’s World Championships in Trondheim.

50 kilometers is on the program for women for the first time at the rank competition level. Johaug has not been able to try the race length in the World Cup either.

Johaug was wildly superior when he finished. For example, at the Beijing Olympics, he won all three individual normal distance races. However, in the traditional ten-kilometer split start race, he had a close fight and lost Kerttu Niskanen only by a measly 0.4 second difference.

During his career, Johaug won no fewer than 14 world championships and four Olympic gold medals.

He has three overall World Cup first places and a whopping 82 race wins. He won the Tour de Ski twice.