The French founder has ahead of the star of the discipline, the Norwegian Olympic champion Johannes Klaebo, at the end of the race organized on Saturday in the Rousses station.
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The public of the Rousses station, in the Jura mountains, was all acquired by its cause. Saturday, January 28, Richard Jouve rewarded him in the most beautiful way by winning the victory over the classic sprint, for the return of the cross -country skiing world cup in France after six years of absence.
The native of Briançon (Hautes-Alpes) even offered the luxury of ahead of the star of the discipline on the finish line: the Norwegian Johannes Klaebo. The Olympic specialty champion at the Beijing 2022 Games and current leader in the General World Cup classification finished second at 9/100
Jouve, 28, wins his fourth victory over the world circuit, his third individual and the second in winter, after his success in Beitostolen (Norway), in December 2022, already in classic sprint, but absence of klaebo.
four French have passed the qualifications
Big favorite at the start, the Norwegian had signed the best time for the qualifications for this event which takes place in two stages. The founders start individually on a 1.3 km course. The thirty best qualify for the rest of the competition. Four French people had passed this course and validated their ticket for the quarters: Lucas Chanavat (3 e
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The participants are then divided into five groups of six: the two fastest of each continue the adventure, and two other founders are drafted on the basis of their time. A mechanics that repeat itself to the final, where the six survivors clash. Jules CHAPPAZ and RENAUD JAY stop in quarters. Lucas Chanavat stopped in half.
Small crystal globe of the sprint in 2022
Richard Jouve was part of the French quartet bronze medalist of the 4 × 10 km relay of the Beijing Games last winter. Four years earlier, he had already won a first bronze medal in team sprint.
In 2022, he had mainly entered the history of tricolor cross -country skiing by becoming the first French to win a small crystal globe, which rewards the best world cup founder in a specialty – that sprint.
The victory of this Saturday is in any case a good omen to a little less than a month of the holding of the world championships in Planica in Slovenia (from February 22 to March 5).