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OBERSTDORF / OSLO (VG) Jarl Magnus Riiber (23) claimed his third career World Cup gold in Oberstdorf and took Jens Lurås Oftebro (20) on the podium.
Jarl Magnus Riiber (came home from Seefeld two years ago as World Cup king with two golds and one silver and also started this year’s World Cup in a brilliant way.
On the last lap, Riiber and Jens Lurås Oftebro were in a small group of eight riders and together with Ilka Herola they walked away from the competitors in the last kilometer. Within the race, Finnish Herola came first, but Riiber passed easily and took the gold.
– The way Jarl does it is fit for a king, says sports manager Ivar Stuan to VG.
Lurås Oftebro, 20, reached bronze just behind Riiber on her World Cup debut.
– They let others do the work and have confidence in themselves that they are good enough in the sprint. They found some good ways to do it, says Stuan, and he also praises Norwegian skis.
– I do not know what to say. This bronze is like gold to me, Lurås Oftebro tells NRK.
With the gold, Riiber now has three World Cup golds during his career. Riiber is already the most victorious Norwegian in the World Cup with 34 World Cup victories, but he still has a long way to go against Bjarte Engen Vik in the WC. Engen Vik took home five World Cup gold medals during his career, something Riiber has a chance to overcome with a full flap at this year’s World Cup.
GOLD WINNER: Jarl Magnus Riiber. Photo: Bjorn Steinar Delebekk
Jarl Magnus Riiber was “a little disappointed” after this morning’s jump race, where Riiber was third.
Therefore, the Norwegian was 22 seconds behind the Japanese Ryota Yamamota in cross-country skiing. Yamamota has his great strength in ski jumping and was quickly joined by Riiber, Akito Watabe and Johannes Lamparter.
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Behind them they hunted again among others Eric Frenzel, Ilka Herola and Vinzenz Geiger.
Geiger has raced Riiber twice earlier this season and was the one Riiber feared the most and reached 22 of the 47 seconds he was behind Riiber on the 2.5-kilometer long first lap, but the explosion ended with himself cracking and never quite came. the path to the leader.
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Up front, it was Lamparter who kept up the speed, but the speed was no higher than that of five runners who reached the tight group in the third round. Frenzel, Herola, Fabian Riessle, Lukas Greiderer and Norway’s Jens Lurås Oftebro took the lead and the leading group featured eight men in the final round.
In the sprint, Riiber was the best and took the third World Cup gold of his career.
