Cross-country skier Nilsson wins Olympic gold in the sprint - Ringwald 13.

Pyeongchang (SID) Cross-country skier Stina Nilsson became the first Swede to win the Olympic gold medal in the sprint at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. The 24-year-old prevailed in the classic style final with a lead of more than three seconds over Sochi winner and world champion Maiken Caspersen Falla from Norway. Bronze went to Yulia Belorukova from the Olympic athletes from Russia. The four German runners were eliminated early. Sprint hopeful Sandra Ringwald (Schonach) missed out on making it to the semi-finals as third place in the quarter-finals by 67 hundredths and ended up in 13th place. "She showed herself well in the prologue, but in the quarter-finals she lost time due to a bump on the mountain." said the German sporting director Andreas Schlütter. The quarterfinals were also the final destination for Katharina Hennig (Oberwiesenthal) and Elisabeth Schicho (Schliersee). Hanna Kolb (Buchenberg) already failed in the qualification. Four years ago in Sochi, Denise Herrmann, who has since switched to biathlon, reached the semi-finals as a medal candidate and came eighth. Nilsson, Olympic bronze medalist in the team sprint in Sochi, won her first major title after four World Championship silver medals and gave Sweden's cross-country skiers a 2-0 lead in the Olympic duel with arch-rivals Norway. Nilsson's compatriot Charlotte Kalla, who won gold in the skiathlon on Saturday, and Norway's second-placed cross-country skier Marit Björgen, 2015 world champion in the last major sprint competition in the classic style to date, will compete for the second time on Thursday in the 10 km freestyle race.

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Cross-country skier Nilsson wins Olympic gold in the sprint - Ringwald 13.

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