Wenger-Reymond, Matter, Nygaard Loeken, Lau and Dayer went for the Globes
Feb 20, 2019·Telemark
The final stop on the FIS Telemark World Cup took the Teams to Krvavec (SLO). With globes still needing to be decided, it was all still to play for in both the men and women races.
The racing started on Thursday with the classic discipline. With every World Cup classic of this season going to the great Amelie Wenger-Reymond the Swiss had her hands firmly on the classic globe. The Swiss champion didn’t relax as she completed a clean sweep of World Cup classic races in 2019 by taking gold. As always pushing her right to the end was Germany’s Johanna Holzmann picking up silver and Jasmin Taylor of Great Britain picking up bronze.
The men’s classic globe still had to be decided between two athletes, Stefan Matter of Switzerland and Trym Nygaard Loeken of Norway. Switzerland’s Bastien Dayer would steal the lead from teammate Matter then a long wait would follow as athletes and fans had to wait for Loeken to ski. With bib number 14 Loeken knew he had to win the race if he wanted the globe to himself. The Norwegian missed out on top spot by 0.59 seconds putting himself into second place with Matter finishing third. This meant that both Loeken and Matter finished on 240 points and would share the classic globe.
Heading into the women’s parallel sprint Holzmann knew she had to beat Wenger-Reymond a feat she hadn’t done all season long and hope the Swiss legend would finish off the podium. Holzmann went and won the parallel sprint, but unfortunately for the German Wenger-Reymond finished in second position. This gave Wenger-Reymond another FIS World Cup globe beating Holzmann by 10 points in the final parallel sprint standings. Argeline Tan-Bouquet finished with a bronze medal to secure third position in the parallel sprint standings.
In the men’s parallel sprint Frenchman Phillipe Lau carried on his good form in this discipline and continued to not finish outside the top two. Lau won his second parallel sprint of the season beating Swiss skier Nicholas Michel to the gold. This win confirmed Lau had won the parallel sprint globe, it is the sixth globe Lau has one in his career. Norwegian Loeken would finish runner up in the standings after finishing in third position beating Matter in the small final.
The final FIS Telemark World Cup action of the 2018/19 season would be the sprint. Switzerland’s Wenger-Reymond would again show her class as she took her third gold medal of the season in the sprint discipline. Having not finished outside the top two in the sprint races this season Wenger-Reymond won another World Cup globe. Four seconds behind the swiss athlete was Holzmann in second and Tan-Bouquet of France managed to sneak into a bronze medal position with Britain’s Taylor only 0.19 seconds behind her.
In the men’s final World Cup sprint of the season Switzerland would steal the show completing another clean sweep with all medals going to Swiss athlete’s repeating what they did in Pra Loup. This time it would be Stefan Matter taking the gold who was chasing his first Overall World Cup globe. Behind Matter by only 0.66 seconds was teammate Nicolas Michel. In third with was Dayer securing his third FIS World Cup globe in his career and his first in the sprint discipline.
In the women's race for the Overall title it would be Swiss athlete Wenger-Reymond with a massive 1,100 points. In second with 756 points is Holzmann from Germany. And in third overall is Great Britain’s Taylor with 730 points.
The men’s Overall title race went to Loeken for his first FIS World Cup Overall globe and his second of the season having secured the classic globe a few days beforehand. Second place overall was Matter and Swiss teammate Dayer finished third overall.
The athlete’s now have a break from the racing before they head to Rjukan Norway for the FIS Telemark World Championships which will take place between the 20th-23rd March.
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