Sweden dominate cross-country team sprints in Dresden

BySportsbeat

Published 14/01/2018 at 14:18 GMT

Ida Ingemarsdotter and Maja Dahlqvist caused a shock as Sweden dominated the first Ladies team sprint of the cross country skiing World Cup.

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The Swedish duo beat their much fancied compatriots Hanna Falk and Stina Nillson into second place in Dresden in a tightly-contested race.

Ingemarsdotter, a double medallist at Sochi 2014 in the team events, broke the line in a time of 13:33.40.

Falk and Nilsson were only 0.16 seconds behind while third on the day were the USA pairing of Ida Sargent and Sophie Caldwell, only 0.07 seconds down on second.

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In the men's team event it was Italy who emerged victorious as Dietmar Noeckler and Federico Pellegrino did the damage, winning in a time of 12:18.31.

The Swedish duo of Emil Jonsson and Teodor Peterson were second while Russia were third, Andrey Krasnov and Gleb Retivykh finishing over a second down on the Italians.

Switzerland were just outside the podium places for the men.

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