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Due to heavy snowfall in recent days, with several avalanches in the area, the track was shortened from 65 to 60 kilometers.
Oskar Kardin picked up the pace as the middle of the race was completed and then took the lead with one minute and 20 seconds with two miles to go.
An advantage that the 29-year-old from Östersund increased kilometer by kilometer.
On the last uphill he glanced over his shoulder, but of course he saw no one behind him and, with his beard full of icicles, he could raise his right fist in victory.
– I was very tired the last four kilometers, but I heard that I had four minutes and I understood that I had a good chance.
It was a long-awaited victory for Kardin, who was the best runner-up in the 2018 and 2020 Czech five-mile Jizerská Padesátka race.
In La Diagonela he finished third in 2019, last year he came in 14th.
With only five kilometers to go, Kardin had the advantage with four and a half minutes and the matter was settled.
In goal was the cardinal almost four minutes before a sprint duel between three Norwegians won by their flatmate Andreas Nygaard.
Kardin, who rode his first Vasaloppet in 2013, was one of the favorites against Vasaloppet last year, but was forced to abandon the classic due to a nasty accident that, after a visit to the hospital, resulted in Kardin suffering a concussion. serious.
Also impressive was the 49-year-old Norwegian Anders Aukland, who drove only for the first sprint prize and was second in the second.
Kardin and Aukland are teammates on the Norwegian team Ragde Eiendom, which also includes women like Therese Johaug and Marit Bjørgen, again among them at the starting line at La Diagonela.
Jenny Larsson, who fills 25 years on Monday, he was second at best at Toblach-Cortina 2020, a race that was decided in freestyle. She finished eighth at the Vasaloppet last year.
Larsson, who started his career as a long-distance runner in 2019, had almost two minutes to spare at Linda Korsgren with 20km to go at Zuoz.
– I’ve never had such good skis but I didn’t dare to believe in victory for the last two hundred meters, says Larsson.
After just over three minutes, Linda Korsgren, teammate of Swedish team Ramudden, slid over the finish line and the big hug party broke out.
