Norway’s Paal Golberg showed why he is the best distance skier in the world as he won the men’s 10km individual free at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Toblach, Italy, on Saturday. The 32-year-old World Cup distance No.1 did not claim his third distance victory this season with a big margin, however, finishing 0.3 second faster than compatriot Simen Hegstad Krueger and less than three seconds before Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, in third place, who completed the Norwegian clean sweep. It was climb specialist Golberg’s first World Cup win in a freestyle distance race. Last week’s distance winner Harald Oestberg Amundsen finished fourth as Norway claimed the seven top spots in a display of dominance from the Nordic Cross-Country power house: Norway’s coaching staff will have a tough task to pick the skiers on the men’s side as the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica, Slovenia, starts in a few weeks.
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