World Cup & Nordic Tour victories for Niggli and Kyburz
Posted on | September 8, 2012 | Category: News
Simone Niggli and Matthias Kyburz made no mistake in the demanding terrain and the stress of the chasing start in the World Cup Final over Middle distance today. Simone Niggli became the overall World Cup winner by the massive margin of 304 points, and Kyburz was in front overall by 96 points after Olav Lundanes was disqualified on Friday.
Niggli won by more than 3 minutes from Helena Jansson, and Kyburz, showing that he is a top elite runner not only in Sprints, finished 49 seconds in front of Thierry Gueorgiou, who had got ahead of Olav Lundanes by 15 seconds.
In the overall women’s World Cup standings, Minna Kauppi, Finland took second place and Tatyana Riabkina, Russia third. In the men’s, third spot went to Matthias Merz, Switzerland.
Minna Kauppi, Simone Niggli and Tatyana Riabkina Photo: Erik Borg
Olav Lundanes, Matthias Kyburz, Matthias Merz Photo: Erik Borg
Leading final World Cup standings
Women
- Simone Niggli SUI 934 points
- Minna Kauppi FIN 630
- Tatyana Riabkina RUS 510
- Helena Jansson SWE 476
- Tove Alexandersson SWE 432
- Judith Wyder SUI 427
Men
- Matthias Kyburz SUI 784
- Olav Lundanes NOR 688
- Matthias Merz SUI 553
- Jonas Leandersson SWE 376
- Jerker Lysell SWE 364
- Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 337
Nordic Tour leaders (finish order in final race)
Women
- Simone Niggli SUI 1:54:39
- Helena Jansson SWE 1:57:43
- Minna Kauppi FIN 1:58:38
- Tove Alexandersson SWE 1:59:37
- Ida Bobach DEN 1:59:40
- Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg NOR 1:59:42
Men
- Matthias Kyburz SUI 1:58:41
- Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 1:59:30
- Olav Lundanes NOR 1:59:45
- Matthias Merz SUI 2:00:16
- William Lind SWE 2:00:20
- Fabian Hertner SUI 2:00:21
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