Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo capped an extraordinary year on Sunday by winning the 20km Freestyle Mass Start in Lake Placid, USA on the final day of the 2025/26 FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup season.
After standing on the top step of the podium six times at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games – becoming the most decorated Winter Olympian in history in the process – he swept all before him in the World Cup, becoming the first man to register 100 individual career wins on his way to claiming a clean sweep of Crystal Globes: Overall (6th), Sprint (8th) and Distance (first time). Only Harald O. Amundsen (Norway) could catch Klaebo at the top of the distance standings but the 2023/24 Overall champion just didn’t have the energy or the speed to move past his countryman, finishing 0.8 seconds behind.
A late surge from Hedegart took him onto the podium ahead of Stenshagen, while Ree’s fifth-place finish was enough to move him up to third in the distance standings, just eight points ahead of Martin Nyenget (Norway). Lars Heggen (Norway) won the green bib as the best under-23 skier, finishing fourth in the overall standings after a sensational debut season, despite missing out on Olympic selection.
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