SPORTS Wednesday, February 21, 2018 21 Rydzek leads German sweep in Fourcade Pyeongchang bronze, in a thrilling sprint finish. ermany won the nordic combined The top three were separated large hill title for the first time as by just 0.8 seconds. GJohannes Rydzek led home a clean sweep It was the first time a of the medals. country had claimed a clean Rydzek beat team-mates Fabian sweep in a nordic combined Riessle, who won silver, and normal hill event since in 1936. claims gold gold medallist , who took Rydzek started the cross- country section in fifth - with Frenzel fourth and Riessle sixth - after a jump of 133.5 metres in the ski jump. That left Rydzek a deficit of 31 forPyeongchang Francegold medallist Johannes Thingnes Bo. seconds to make up over the 10km artin Fourcade became Italy edged out Germany for the cross-country course in order to win ’s most successful bronze medal. gold. MOlympian of all-time by anchoring Fourcade also won gold medals in Japan’s produced the his side to victory in the the individual and pursuit events in best performance in the ski jump with mixed relay. 2014, as well as claiming mass start a leap of 134 metres, but could only Fourcade erased a deficit silver medals in 2010 and 2014. mange fifth overall, behind Norway’s of more than 30 seconds Team-mates , (C), second-placed in fourth. on the final leg to add to Anais Bescond and Simon Fabian Riessle (L) and third-placed Watabe started the cross-country his earlier Pyeongchang gold Desthieux had laid the foundations Eric Frenzel, all from Germany, section with an advantage of 0.3 seconds, medals in the pursuit and mass for Fourcade. celebrate (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) but was eventually overtaken inside the start. France clocked a combined time final three kilometres. (BBC) Norway claimed silver of one hour eight minutes and 34.3 thanks to a superb third seconds to finish 20.9 seconds ahead leg from individual men’s of Norway. (BBC) S. Korea defend 3,000m title Pyeongchang etherlands set a women’s short track speed skating N3,000m relay world record with their final run in Pyeongchang - but only took home the bronze medal. Instead, won Members of team South Korea celebrate (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) their sixth Olympic title in seven they won that in four minutes, were bumped to third. Games in what proved a dramatic 03.471 seconds - quicker than any China finished the race in final. team in the A final. second but they were penalised sprints to finishing The Dutch finished third in the So when two of the four along with Canada, so it was Italy line (Pic courtesy: heats so only made the B final, but finalists were disqualified they who claimed silver. (BBC) Xinhua) Virtue, Moir regain ice dance gold Pyeongchang anada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir held their nerveC to become Olympic ice dance champions for a second time. France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron led after a new free dance world record of 123.35. But 122.40 for Virtue and Tessa Virtue (L) MEDAL TABLE Moir, who took silver in 2014 and Scott Moir after winning gold in 2010, Country Gold Silver Bronze Total took their total to an overall world record of 206.07. 1. Norway 11 10 8 29 USA’s Maia and Alex 2. Germany 11 7 5 23 Shibutani won bronze while Great Britain’s Penny Coomes 3. Canada 8 5 6 19 Marie Martinod of France celebrates after ladies’ ski halfpipe of freestyle and Nick Buckland came 11th. 4. Netherlands 6 5 3 14 skiing at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter at Phoenix Snow Papadakis suffered a Park, PyeongChang, South Korea, yesterday. Marie Martinod won the silver wardrobe malfunction during 5. France 5 4 4 13 medal with 92.60 points. (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) the short dance.