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Hagenbuch of SVSEF helps the United States win another gold relay | Sports
Friday was a historic day for Team USA in the final round of the 2020 FIS Junior Cross Country World Championships in Oberwiesenthal, Germany.
Dominant from the start, the American juniors with Johnny Hagenbuch, 18, of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, defended the gold in relay of their team in the men's 4×5 kilometer competition.
The US junior women's relay team with Sydney Palmer-Leger, 18, of SVSEF won the silver medal in the women's 3×3.3 km race.
Classic relays Luke Jager and Ben Ogden as well as free style runners Hagenbuch and Gus Schumacher absolutely crushed the competition in 54: 54.9, finishing 35.5 seconds ahead of Canada (55: 30.4), l & # 39 ; silver medal surprise team.
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves and (winning) was the only thing we really would have been happy with today, Schumacher told U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Tom Horrocks.
Jager, 20, of the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Team, set the tone in the 18-team race with the fastest classic time of 14: 41.8 giving the Americans an 18.2-second lead 2.5 km tours.
Ogden, 20, of the University of Vermont posted the second fastest time at 15:13.3 on his classic leg and increased the American lead to 30.4 seconds halfway through.
Hagenbuchs' free run of 12: 39.9 was the fourth best, but it was a very tight skating round with the Sun Valley runner arriving 2.4 seconds behind the Swiss leader on the first freestyle run. Hagenbuchs' effort increased the American lead to 33.6 seconds.
Schumacher, 19, of the Alaska Winter Stars, had the third best skating final in 12: 19.7 and once again improved the United States' position to its 35.5-second winning margin in ;arrival.
In January in Lahti, Finland, the same American quartet operating in the same order won the gold medal in the 4x5k men's relay at the 2019 FIS Junior U-20 Nordic World Championships.
They beat Russia by just 3.8 seconds. It was the very first gold medal in the United States at the FIS Junior World Championships, surpassing the silver medal won at the 2018 world meeting in Switzerland by Jager, Ogden, Alaskas Hunter Wonders and the ancestor Schumacher.
In Friday's 4×3.3 km junior women's relay, the Americans finished just 4.9 seconds behind the Swiss gold medal team to score the best result ever achieved by American women in this junior world championship event. There were 16 teams finishing.
The women with Palmer-Leger, Kendall Kramer, Sophia Laukli and Novie McCabe had to fight for a place on the podium.
In the first classic stage, Palmer-Leger kept the Americas in the mix with the third best stage at 9: 40.8. She scored just 9.9 seconds behind the leading team of Russia, with Italy in the second three seconds ahead of the Americans.
Classic skier Kramer, 17, from the Nordic Ski Club in Fairbanks, Ak. with a time of 9: 50.3 for the fifth stage, definitely bringing the United States in second place. Kramer faced 19-year-old Middlebury College runner Sophia Laukli for a free 8: 00.4 stage.
The 18-year-old anchor runner McCabe of the Washington State Methow Valley Nordic team had the third best final skating stage in 7: 41.8 and reduced the huge ahead of Switzerland by 28 seconds after three stages to 4.9 seconds on arrival. But she failed to catch up to the Swiss gold medalist team.
The Swiss finished in 35: 08.6, ahead of the Americans with 35: 13.5.
It was the second World Championship medal for the United States in the women's junior relay. In 2017, the junior team of Julia Kern, Hannah Halvorsen, Hailey Swirbul and Katherine Ogden won the bronze medal at Soldier Hollow in Utah.
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