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Klaebo, already the most successful man in the sport with 107 World Cup wins, stayed patient until the final kilometer, where he pushed ahead and left France\u2019s Mathis Desloges and fellow Norwegian Martin Nyenget behind to battle it out in a photo finish for silver and bronze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really, really satisfied and happy for sure about the performance,\u201d Klaebo said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of nerves before this race, and I really felt like I wanted to do well here, and my body feels good, we had good skis, and it was an amazing day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just edged out of the top three was Savelii Korostelev, who is from Russia but competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete, as Russian athletes remain banned from competing under their own flag at the Olympics due to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Considering Norway\u2019s men hold the top six spots in the World Cup distance rankings, a podium sweep wasn\u2019t out of the question. But they fell short, with the next Norwegian, Harald Oestberg Amundsen, finishing in sixth place.<\/p>\n
The snow remained soft and wet Sunday, carrying over from the women\u2019s event the day before, which posed a challenge for wax techs and athletes navigating the slush. Multiple athletes crashed on the same turn that got American Jessie Diggins<\/a> and other women on Saturday. Americans Gus Schumacher and Zak Ketterson, 24th and 43rd, respectively, got caught in a pileup along with other athletes at that corner, with Ketterson breaking a pole and needing to get a new one partway through the race.<\/p>\n \u201cI was hopeful in the guys\u2019 race that they would be a little better at it, but coming into it, everyone just started snowplowing and freaking out,\u201d Ketterson said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just a s\u2014show on that first corner.\u201d<\/p>\n Klaebo sat back for portions of the race, letting others lead the front pack but staying within striking distance throughout the 10 km of classic skiing and 10 km of skate skiing that make up the skiathlon. But those who watch Klaebo know his status as the top contender is rarely in doubt, and he showed that Sunday, making his move on the final climb and leaving no question about his status as the favorite at these Games. He finished with a time of 46:11.0.<\/p>\n Still, it\u2019s Klaebo\u2019s first Olympic medal in the skiathlon. If there\u2019s any redemption arc for the world\u2019s best men\u2019s cross-country skier, it\u2019s that he finished 40th in the skiathlon at the 2022 Olympics.<\/p>\n The Norwegian now needs three more gold medals or five of any color to break the Olympic record, held by countryman Bj\u00f8rn Daehlie. Daehlie, who last competed at the 1998 Nagano Games, won 12 medals, eight of them gold, during his Olympic career. Klaebo won three golds in Pyeongchang in 2018 and two golds, one silver and one bronze in Beijing in 2022.<\/p>\n With six Olympic cross-country skiing events, a golden sweep isn\u2019t completely out of the question \u2014 Klaebo did that in six events at the Nordic Ski World Championships in 2025.<\/p>\n Next up is Tuesday\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s sprint.\n<\/p><\/div>\n TESERO, Italy \u2014 Waving to a roaring crowd at a cruising pace, his closest competitors a healthy 2 seconds behind, Norway\u2019s Johannes H\u00f8sflot Klaebo became one medal closer to earning the title of the most decorated men\u2019s cross-country skiing Olympian of all time, winning gold in the men\u2019s 10km + 10km skiathlon Sunday. Klaebo, already … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Johannes-Klaebo-wins-skiathlon-gold-amid-quest-to-become-most.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19844,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions\/19844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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