Marit Bjoergen maintains Norway women's stranglehold on 10km classic races

Not since Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk in January 2014 has a Norwegian failed to top the podium in the discipline – with that race in Szklarska Poreba actually seeing no Norwegian representatives compete.

The latest win for Norway came as Bjoergen claimed her first win of the season by almost five seconds from home favourite Krista Parmakoski.

The 36-year-old led through all the check points to come home first in a time of 26:55.20 minutes with Parmakoski moving up from fourth at the 3.1km mark to finish as runner up.

Bjoergen's team-mate Heidi Weng finished in 27:07.90 for her second consecutive third-place finish of the weekend after Saturday's sprint event.

The result sees Bjoergen top the early World Cup distance standings after one race while the in overall leaderboard, the Norwegian moves up to second with Sweden's Stina Nilsson occupying top spot after winning Saturday's sprint and finishing joint seventh in the 10km classic.