Cross-country skier Laura Gimmler also achieved a top 10 placement at the end of the World Cup in Canmore, Canada, confirming her good form.
The 30-year-old from Oberstdorf reached the semi-finals of the classic sprint in the 1988 Olympic cross-country ski run and thus came eighth in the final rankings. Gimmler sprinted to seventh place in free style on Saturday.
Gimmler was only 31 hundredths short of making it to her second final of the top six, in which the Swede Linn Svahn celebrated her sixth win of the season. Team sprint Olympic champion Victoria Carl also made it to the semi-finals on Tuesday, and fifth overall in the World Cup collected important points with tenth place.
Katharina Hennig (Oberwiesenthal), who won team sprint gold with Carl in Beijing 2022, showed one of her better performances in the individual sprint and came in 13th place after being eliminated in the quarterfinals. Coletta Rydzek ( Oberstdorf/18th) and Lisa Lohmann (Oberhof/20th).
Nordic skiing: Kläbo is approaching 80
In the men’s category, record World Cup winner Johannes Hösflot Kläbo celebrated his 76th career success; the Norwegian also won in freestyle on Saturday. The German starters Anian Sossau (Eisenärzt) and Florian Knopf (Bernau) were eliminated in the qualification.
A second North American station is scheduled for next weekend in Minneapolis/USA. The World Cup then returns to Finland, Norway and Sweden for the final weeks of the season.