Diggins wins Tour de Ski | Sports

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy — Stratton Mountain T2 Elite athlete Jessie Diggins added one other notch to her gold-plated belt Sunday.

The 29-year-old put all of it collectively over the previous week-and-a-half and have become the primary U.S. skier to win the FIS Tour de Ski. She can be the primary non-European to win the occasion.

“This can be a lifelong aim. It actually means so much,” Diggins stated to U.S. Ski and Snowboard’s Tom Horrocks. “We have now had an incredible group ambiance this complete time, superb help, and assist, and so many cheers from all around the globe, so that actually gave me wings up the hill in the present day.”

Diggins, who had a earlier finest Tour end of third in 2018, wrapped up the ladies’s Tour de Ski title with a second-place end in Sunday’s 10-kilometer freestyle mass begin, the eighth and ultimate Tour occasion. She completed the race in 36:54.8, which was 9.2 seconds off first-place finisher Ebba Andersson.

Diggins’ effort put her ultimate Tour de Ski time at 3:04:45.8, which bested Russia’s Yulia Stupak by 1:24.8 and Andersson by 2:00.8.

Diggins had wins within the 10k freestyle pursuit and 10k freestyle interval begin, together with 4 podium finishes all through the Tour.

American teammate Rosie Brennan, a Dartmouth Faculty graduate, completed sixth general after putting seventh in Sunday’s ultimate race.

Hailey Swirbul completed 18th general, Stratton Mountain College’s Katharine Ogden was twenty third, UVM product Caitlin Patterson was thirty fourth and SMS’s Julia Kern was thirty eighth.

Swirbul (fifteenth) and Ogden (twenty fourth) each had top-25 finishes within the Sunday finale. Patterson simply missed out in twenty seventh and Kern was thirty seventh.

This yr’s Tour was historic for the U.S. girls. It was solely the third time within the 15-year historical past of the Tour de Ski that 4 U.S. girls had been within the prime 30 general finishers.

By two intervals of the ladies’s cross nation FIS World Cup schedule, Diggins holds a 130-point lead within the general standings over Stupak, with Brennan sitting in third.

Russia’s Alexander Bulshunov repeated as males’s Tour de Ski champion in dominant style, besting second-place Maurice Manificat, of France, by 3:23.9.

Bulshunov received 5 of the eight tour occasions and made the rostrum in each race.

Up-and-coming U.S. racer Gus Schumacher completed 18th general after his Nineteenth-place end in Sunday’s race. His general end was one of the best by a U.S. man within the occasion’s historical past. He moved into twenty seventh within the World Cup standings.

UVM product Scott Patterson completed thirty seventh within the Tour and Kevin Bolger was forty eighth.

ALPINE SKIING

Goggia wins in Austria

Ladies’s downhill skiers had been in St. Anton, Austria this weekend for a pair of races. U.S.’s Breezy Johnson made the rostrum in third in Saturday’s race with a time of 1:25.10.

Italy’s Sofia Goggia completed first forward of Austria’s Tamara Tippler within the downhill competitors.

U.S. standout Isabella Wright completed twenty seventh and Laurenne Ross was thirty ninth.

Wright was the highest American finisher in Sunday’s tremendous G, the place she completed in 1:20.83. AJ Damage took twenty sixth and Johnson was thirty second.

Extra girls’s Alpine motion is on faucet on Tuesday with a slalom race in Flachau, Austria.

Burke Mountain Academy alumna Mikaela Shiffrin is beginning fourth within the race. Shiffrin has but to win a slalom race this World Cup season, however has 4 top-five finishes. She received a large slalom race in mid-December.

UVM product Paula Moltzan begins twenty ninth on Tuesday, Lila Lapanja in thirty sixth, Burke alumna Nina O’Brien in thirty seventh, Resi Stiegler in forty seventh, Katie Hensien in forty eighth, Damage in fiftieth and Burke’s Zoe Zimmerman in 61st.

The lads’s Alpine athletes had been in Adelboden, Austria this weekend. Mount Mansfield Ski Membership’s Ryan Cochran-Siegle was Nineteenth in Saturday’s large slalom, following his twelfth place end on Friday. Cochran-Siegle completed with a time of two:21.88, which was 3.52 seconds off the main time.

Teammate River Radamus was twentieth on Saturday, whereas Ted Ligety didn’t qualify for the ultimate run. SMS product George Steffey didn’t end his first run.

U.S.’s Luke Winters was twenty third within the Sunday slalom race. Inexperienced Mountain Valley College’s Benjamin Ritchie didn’t qualify for the finals.