Cross-Country Skiing: Iivo Niskanen Is the Best in Men’s 50km Classical

Iivo Niskanen, a cross-country skier from Finland, became an Olympic champion in men’s 50km classical. It’s the second Olympic gold for the athlete as in 2014, he was a gold medalist in team sprint.

Olympic Athletes from Russia, Aleksandr Bolshunov (a silver medalist in relay, team sprint and bronze medalist in individual sprint) and Andrey Larkov (silver medalist in relay), won silver and bronze medals by finishing in 2:08:40.8 and 2:10:59.6 correspondingly.

The Top 10 results were also shown by:

4 Alex Harvey (Canada)

5 Martin Johnsrud Sundby (Norway)

6 Hans Christer Holund (bronze medalist in 30 km skiathlon) (Norway)

7 Daniel Rickardsson (Sweden)

8 Martin Jaks (Czech Republic)

9 Dario Cologna (gold medalist in 15 km freestyle) (Switzerland)

10 Emil Iversen (Norway)

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