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No one had a chance to catch up with Svahn in the race, who scored an enormously strong victory. The sprinter also won the sprint on Friday and has now cleared the table for the first two days.
It was the 21-year-old’s first victory in a distance World Cup.
– The plan was to be calm the first two rounds and see what happened. I tried to use as little energy as possible. With one round to go, I said to myself: “Today I have to win.” And it worked, Svahn said after the victory.
– Once must be the first, and now I also have a distance winner, so it feels great, he continued.
– I have realized that I have opportunities from a distance, but I did not think that the first victory would come now. But it was a good start to the year.
Russia’s Julija Stupak finished in second place, while Jessica Diggins came in third. Frida Karlsson came in fourth place.
Karlsson and Ebba Andersson made an early hatch, but were eventually brought in by a group of seven or eight riders. Neither of them managed to get rid of Svahn in the race, and there the world’s best sprinter showed muscle.
