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Last year, Patricia Eiduka in the classic sprint in Ruka, when it was still a miniature and there were slightly fewer “clean” sprinters, won the 41st place, losing less than 15 seconds (14.89) in the best qualification and achieving the best result in the classic sprint at that time. This year, Eiduca was closer to the leaders by a few seconds and 11.37 seconds behind the best qualified – American Jessica Digins. It was 4.4 seconds until he was thirty. During the “Tour de ski”, the skier from Vecbebri managed to reach the thirties in the classic sprint, but this time the line-up was even stronger.
For men, who usually have more than a hundred participants in the first stage of the season, this time only 77 skiers started. Raimo Vīgants has participated in the World Cup stages six times and sprint three times. Starting for the first time in the World Cup stage right in Ruka, the Madonite according to the new system, where a lower one is placed among the leaders FIS points, had a special start, namely to start with the second number among the titled Norwegians – behind Emil Iversen and just before Johannes Kleb himself. Raimo showed 69th time in the qualification among 76 participants, but he was slightly behind the leaders in terms of time – 14.91 seconds. No one in Latvia has lost so much in the classic sprint.
Indulis Bikše could not overtake any competitor and showed the last 76th result, the only one of the participants losing the leader more than 20 seconds – 22.48 seconds. The closest competitor and 75th place winner, Croatian Skenders, was 2.5 seconds faster.
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