VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) a Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the Usa its first world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing Sunday by winning the women's team run by almost ten seconds. After Diggins opened up a tiny lead on her last leg, the American duo was anchored by Randall to the success with a scorching final lap to take away from the Swedish and Finnish clubs. The U.S. The 6x1.2-kilometer event was finished by pair in 20 minutes, 24.4 seconds, whipping Swedish protecting winners Charlotte Kalla and Ida Ingemarsdotter by 7.8 seconds. Finland's Riika Sarasoja-Lilja and Krista Lahteenmaki were next, 10.9 moments behind the Americans. "It feels incredible," Randall said. "This is some thing we have looked forward to for quite a long time. It is my seventh world championship and I have had to spend a lot of time watching prize events, so we are pretty excited to complete it, and in a group event particularly, and to eventually get us on the podium. "That moment whenever your teammate comes running out (in the final region), it starts to sink in that you are world champion." Norway, one of many pre-race favorites, completed fourth after Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg fell. It was the second American gold at these Nordic skiing worlds after Sarah Hendrickson's victory in the women's ski jump. Randall became the first American woman to get a cross-country medal at sides in '09 when she took silver in the run. Randall is known as one of the most truly effective runners on the circuit, with eight individual World Cup wins in the discipline, to go with one win in the team function a also with Diggins in Quebec in December. "I am sprinting with the very best runner in the world," Diggins said. "I knew that when I really could get her to lose in a great place, she had manage to carry it and improve upon it. So I just tried to obtain her in the best position I could." Her break was made by diggins on the second-to-last leg, approaching on the steepest climb of the course. The 21-year-old pushed so difficult she also broke a post near the top, but her coach was on hand to run and give a replacement to her. At the final change-over, Diggins was 1.4 seconds before Kalla a and Randall then extended the cause with the fastest lap of any skier in the final. "I began when I noticed my dad and mom were watching on TV," Diggins crying said. "It began to sink in, and we have been teaching such a long time for this. Because an entire team is taken by it to create a battle similar to this come together a lot is meant by it for the whole team. Hopefully, it'll inspire some youthful skiers in the U.S. to pursue it and stay with the sport." In the men's 6x1.5-kilometer event, Alexei Petukhov and Nikita Kriukov of Russia beat Sweden's Marcus Hellner and Emil Joensson by 0.4 seconds to get in 21:30.9. Kazakhstan pair Nikolay Chebotko and Alexey Poltoranin won a photograph finish for bronze, edging out defending champions Canada by 0.03 seconds. A strong rise by Petukhov on his final panel gave Russia the lead at the final trade, leaving Olympic winner Kriukov a who won the personal sprint Thursday a' to summary the victory. Poltoranin clinched bronze with a perfectly timed drop to position his shoe before Alex Harvey's.
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