Gus Schumacher delivered to the already standout weekend for the Stifel U.S. Cross Country Ski Team with a second-place finish in the World Cup classic sprint in Goms, Switzerland, marking his second World Cup podium in just 48 hours. The result follows the team sprint a day earlier, when Schumacher and Ben Ogden teamed up to take third place, underscoring the momentum building within the U.S. squad just 14 days out from the Olympic Winter Games.

Sunday’s podium was another milestone result for Schumacher, earning his first-ever World Cup podium in the classic technique, his first individual sprint podium and his second podium of the weekend. From the get-go, Schumacher had one thing on his mind: the final. Through the rounds, Schumacher advanced confidently on the extremely long and tiring Goms course and put himself in a perfect position for his fifth career World Cup podium. Schumacher finished 2.64 seconds behind Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, who claimed victory, while Sweden’s Edvin Anger rounded out the podium in third.

The depth of the U.S. team was on full display in Goms, and the result was promising, with seven athletes in the top 30 and four in the top 10. And the classic sprint will be contested at the Olympic Winter Games. 

"I am psyched, I'm really proud of adapting to a bit of a different sprint course and recognizing where my strengths were, which I think a lot of it was just not getting as tired as some other people on the hill," said Schumacher. "I had really good kick, and that helped me just stride well. Historically, my sprint finishes haven't been amazing, but today I had enough speed on the backstretch... plus the full finish lane was a good like 30 seconds, so I relied on that a little bit and then just stayed up near the front and made good tactical moves."

For the men, through the qualifications, it was Ogden, JC Schoonmaker, Zak Ketterson, Zach Jayne and Schumacher advancing through to the classic sprint heats. Into the heats, Ogden, Schumacher and Schoonmaker punched their tickets to the semifinals. Into the semis, Ogden and Schoonmaker were off the line first, with Ogden advancing through to the final by being the first lucky loser. Schoonmaker was fifth and did not advance. Into the final, it was Schumacher and Ogden back together, but this time, for individual results. Off the start line, they both held their ground behind Klaebo. On the longest climb, Klaebo kicked it into another gear, putting seconds on the rest of the field, yet Schumacher and Sweden's Anger battled it out for second and third. Across the line, Schumacher was on top. Schoonmaker finished 10th, marking his best result of the season and Jayne recorded a career milestone, finishing 27th to earn his first-ever top-30 World Cup result. Schumacher's result now places him seventh in the overall World Cup standings. 

"It was a really big day for the team, and fun to be a part of days like this. On the whole, all of us are feeling pretty good about how today went," said Ogden. "It's pretty thrilling to be a part of this group. We all can learn so much from each other, and every day could be a huge opportunity for anyone on the team. It's fun!"

For the women, Jessie Diggins continued her consistent form with a seventh-place result. Julia Kern placed 15th and Sammy Smith crossed the line in 23rd. Sweden’s Linn Svahn completed a strong resurgence on the World Cup circuit, taking home the win. Germany’s Laura Gimmler continued her World-Cup-podium-weekend by securing her second podium, while Switzerland’s Nadine Faehndrich was third in front of a home-country crowd. Diggins continues her lead in the overall World Cup standings after the sprint race. 

Sunday, the athletes are back at it for the 20k classic. 

RESULTS
Men
Women

"Doing it with Gus, my boy from day one, was pretty fun," Ben Ogden. 

In the first of three races in Goms, Switzerland, Stifel U.S. Ski Team's Gus Schumacher and Ben Ogden teamed up in the team sprint and ultimately brought home the first U.S. men’s team sprint World Cup podium, with a third-place result. Julia Kern and Sammy Smith were fifth, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen 11th and Lauren Jortberg and Kendall Kramer 15th. 

A day after the U.S. Cross Country Olympic Team was named, it was all hands on deck for the athletes as they entered their final weekend of racing before the Olympic Winter Games kick off Feb. 7. In the team sprint format, athletes were paired into teams of two. To qualify for the heats, both team members had to be in the top 30. All American athletes achieved that. The teams, which consisted of two men’s teams and two women’s teams, were led by Team USA 1: Schumacher/Ogden and Kern/Smith and then Team USA 2: McMullen/Schoonmaker and Kramer/Jortberg. 

In the heats, leg one races the sprint course, then physically tags their teammate for their turn to take a lap. The team skis six laps total of the hilly, high-elevation course. Whoever crossed the finish line first was crowned the winner. 

In the qualifications, Ogden and Schumacher qualified third, setting them up nicely for the heats. Ogden was the “scramble” leg, going off the line first. Throughout the race, Ogden and Schumacher were safe in the top five, holding their strong position each time around the course. Norway was at the front the entirety, with Einar Hedegart and Harald Oestberg Amundsen setting a blistering pace. However, Italy and the USA held their own, trading back and forth for the podium spot. On the final lap, it was all gas. Ogden tagged off to Schumacher for the final leg, and Schumacher battled with Italy’s Federico Pellegrino for second. Ultimately crossing the line in third, it was still a celebration, as the U.S. brought home its first-ever World Cup men’s team sprint podium. Norway was crowned the victor, with Italy in second place. 

"It was really fun. This has been a long time coming," said Schumacher. "We felt like we were strong in this event for a long time, and I think that's true. It was great to have a result that backs that up. Nothing went wrong, we skied well, and it felt good to be a strong part of that, especially securing the position in the last lap. Doing it with Ben was sweet. To come to the finish line... Second slipped through my fingers and I kind of knew that was coming, but he was psyched and it was really fun to share that with him, and always fun to share a big result with a teammate." 

"Crazy that today is the first team sprint podium for the men," said Ogden. "(Sport Director Chris) Grover thought it might be at the finish line and I couldn't believe it at first. But it's honestly a really thrilling statistic and I am super proud to be a part of the first ever. Doing it with Gus, my boy from day one, was pretty fun... A dream come true, really. Super fired up."

For the women, Kern and Smith put together a strong race and finished fifth, gaining valuable team sprint experience going into the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina, as this race will be featured on the Olympic schedule. Germany took home the win, with Norway in second and third. 

Sunday, the athletes will be back on the start line for the classic sprint. Qualifications kick off at 4:00 a.m. ET and heats at 6:30 a.m. ET. Watch live on skiandsnowboard.live. 

RESULTS
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Women

Jessie Diggins delivered a strong late-race charge to finish fourth in Sunday’s 10k classic at the World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, closing to within 10 seconds of the podium, finishing the day in fourth place. Five Americans rounded out the 10k classic points. 

On a course with steep descents, tricky climbs and little rest, and with variable snow conditions that deteriorated throughout the day, it was Diggins who led the Americans. Through the course's checkpoints, Diggins' result hovered in the low to mid-teens, before significantly increasing her pace over the final kilometers, climbing the leaderboard and narrowly missing a top-three result. With her fourth place, Diggins continues to lead the overall World Cup standings following the weekend of racing.

Moa Ilar of Sweden claimed the victory, with Austria’s Teresa Stadlober finishing second and Sweden’s Jonna Sundling rounding out the podium.

The Stifel U.S. Ski Team placed five athletes inside the top 30 across the men’s and women’s fields. Rosie Brennan was the next-best American woman, finishing 30th. On the men’s side, Zanden McMullen led the way in 18th, following a strong showing at last week’s U.S. National Championships in Lake Placid, where he won both the 20k skate and the classic sprint national titles. Hunter Wonders finished 24th, while Luke Jager placed 29th.

Hailey Swirbul continued her return to World Cup competition after retiring in 2023, racing in her first World Cup weekend back. The 2022 Olympian made an immediate impact on Saturday by reaching the skate sprint finals and followed up with a 33rd-place finish in Sunday’s 10k classic. The week prior in Lake Placid, Swirbul won the U.S. national title in the 10k classic.

Novie McCabe also made her World Cup comeback in Oberhof after missing much of last season, finishing 35th in the 10k classic. The 2022 Olympian captured the 20k national championship at U.S. Nationals.

Saturday’s standout American performance came from Sammy Smith, who finished 12th in the skate sprint. Smith, a full-time student-athlete at Stanford University and who recently played in the NCAA Division I Soccer National Championships, made her World Cup debut for the season with a career-best individual result, advancing to the semifinals of a World Cup sprint for the first time and finishing as the top-scoring American of the day.

In the men’s 10k classic, Norway’s Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget took the win, followed by Finland’s Iivo Niskanen in second and Norway’s Erik Valnes in third.

Following the end of racing in Oberhof, the U.S. team will rest before heading into the final World Cup competition ahead of the Olympic Winter Games, with three races in Goms, Switzerland. Before Goms, the athletes who have qualified for Team USA will be formally announced. 

RESULTS
Women's 10k classic
Men's 10k classic

Women's skate sprint 
Men's skate sprint 

Jessie Diggins capped off a historic week by taking second place in the final climb and winning the overall title at the 2025–26 Tour de Ski, marking the third time in her career that the Stifel U.S. Ski Team star has claimed victory in cross country's most prestigious stage race.

On the men’s side, Gus Schumacher delivered a breakthrough performance for the Stifel U.S. Ski Team, finishing 16th and securing seventh overall in the Tour de Ski. Schumacher’s result stands as the best overall finish by an American man in the history of the event, surpassing the previous mark of 13th set by Ben Ogden at the 2022–23 Tour de Ski.

“I'm psyched,” said Schumacher. “My goal was to get top 10 coming in and it was nice to have a solid tour with some like really bright spots with the 5k.”

Diggins took the overall win by two minutes and 17 seconds, and only added to her lead on the iconic Final Climb up Alpe Cermis, a brutal uphill pursuit. The climb begins in the Val di Fiemme stadium before ascending straight up a ski resort, featuring gradients that reach up to 28 percent—comparable in steepness to Killington Resort’s Outer Limits or Deer Valley’s Champion trail. In her final appearance on the famed climb, Diggins once again proved her combination of endurance, power and tactics.

"We had such amazing help from so many people, such great cheering today," said Diggins. "We've had an amazing team vibe, great energy and I've had great skis every day of the tour and it really takes everything from everyone to make it happen and so I'm just so thankful for my team. It was so fun to close it down with a good one today and it'll be a great team celebration tonight!

It was Diggins’ final Tour de Ski title, as she announced her retirement from the World Cup after the 2025-26 season. Her win continues to solidify her legacy as one of the greatest cross country skiers in U.S. history—and one of the sport’s defining athletes of her generation.

"Honestly, the Tour de Ski is one of the hardest things to win," said Diggins. "When we won the Olympics, it's amazing, it's really special, but that's one race and the Tour is day after day after day after day after day. You have to put it together back to back, you have to be on, and you have to keep together under cumulative pressure and that is really hard. It's hard on you and it's hard on the team and I am so proud of the team for winning."

Behind Schumacher and Diggins, Ogden was 22nd and Zak Ketterson 35th in the 10k to finish 25th and 36th in the overall standings, respectively. Julia Kern took an impressive 14th on the day and 17th overall in the Tour de Ski, besting her previous 20th place overall Tour de Ski result.

The 2025-26 Tour de Ski opened in Toblach, Italy, with four stages before concluding in Val di Fiemme for the final two stages. Val di Fiemme will also serve as a host venue for cross country skiing at the upcoming Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, adding further significance to the Stifel U.S. Ski Team’s strong performance on Olympic terrain.

RESULTS
Women’s 10k mass start skate
Men’s 10k mass start skate

Women’s overall
Men’s overall  

If there is any place on the World Cup circuit that feels more like home for Jessie Diggins, outside of Minneapolis, MN, it's Toblach, Italy. Today, on her final day of racing in Toblach for the fourth stage of the Tour de Ski, Diggins did what she does best - win.

In her 14th Tour de Ski, Diggins is walking away from her favorite course on the circuit with her 32nd victory and 85th podium. Of those 85 podiums and 32 wins, 15 of them have been right here in Toblach and eight of those have been victories. Toblach was the first place Diggins has ever won a race, dating back to 2016. Today, she did just that, for the second time in two days. 

"Honestly, it's the year of dreams coming true. This venue is so special to me and a place of so many amazing memories since my first Tour in 2012. It's really cool, and I am so thankful to everyone here. It was a hard race, it was a lonely race, but I was pushing hard and wanting to leave it all out on the course and fight for every second while remaining efficient."

Today's race format did not favor Diggins. Due to the nature of the pursuit race, each athlete pursues the leader of the Tour, which happens to be Diggins. Meaning she started 1 minute and 10 seconds ahead of the second-place start, Moa Ilar of Sweden. The entire race, Diggins was alone. 

Behind her, Sweden’s Ilar and Austria’s Teresa Stadlober emerged as the primary chasers. The pair worked together to manage the gap, sharing the workload across the flats and climbs, but the deficit continued to grow. Midway through the race, Diggins had stretched her lead well beyond a minute, with the rest of the field trailing even farther back as sunlight settled over the Toblach course.

"You know, every Tour i've done, there is always one day where I go, 'this is the day you have to be so gritty... if you want to win the Tour, you have to make it happen now.' And so I went in with that mindset. Sometimes I don't like how it feels to feel that much pressure but I know I perform well under it, so I just said to myself , ‘If you want to win the Tour, today is your day to be gritty." 

"I believed in my team, my skis were perfect, I would change nothing with the skis, and so a huge kudos to them. This was a win for the truck and the coaches and really the credit goes to them, because to have a good race on this course where you have to have really good kick and fast glide, you have to have the best of both worlds."

Going into Val di Fiemme and the final two races, Diggins has a sizable lead in the Tour de Ski standings, with 1 minute and 30 seconds ahead of Ilar of Sweden. With Norway's Astrid Slind, who was second in the overall standings, dropping out of the Tour due to sickness, Diggins' path is more straightforward as we enter the next two stages. 

"I am taking it day by day. But I am excited because it's going to be the Olympic courses, it's a new sprint course, new for everyone, and the thing for me is learning learning learning. I am here to learn, take notes, improve, get in lifetime reps, and just see this as a growth opportunity. And that plan has not changed. Tour lead or no Tour lead. That's the mindset I have going into Val di Fiemme." 

Off the race course, there was a moment after the win that marked something even more meaningful for Diggins. A place that has followed her journey from breakthrough athlete to one of the sport’s all-time greats, Diggins was honored after the race by having one of the bridges on the course named after her. "Jessie Bridge" is officially a part of the Toblach World Cup venue. 

The eventual podium for the women's race was led by Diggins, with Ilar in second and Austria's Stadlober in third. Julia Kern was 18th. 

For the men, Gus Schumacher shone once again. After his victory in yesterday's 5k skate, he was among a strong chase group behind the Tour leader, and eventual winner of the day, Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Schumacher played the game today, trading off leading the group, then falling behind to take on the draft on the high-speed downhills. It was a race of tactics, and Schumacher played it well. Into the stadium, it was an all-out sprint to the finish. Across the line, he was in a photo-finish for fourth, fifth and sixth, but ultimately was placed sixth. He now sits third overall in the Tour de Ski standings, going into stage five in Val di Fiemme. The day was won by Klaebo, with second place going to Norway's Mattis Stenshagen and third was Sweden's Edvin Anger. Ben Ogden was the next American finisher in 29th. 

Tomorrow, the athletes will check out the Olympic Winter Games venue and the updated sprint course, with the fifth stage, the classic sprint going down on Jan. 3. 

RESULTS
Women
Men

TOUR DE SKI STANDINGS
Women
Men

History doesn’t always arrive in a single decisive moment. Sometimes it reveals itself through patience, teamwork and the ability to give it your all and wait for the result. That was the case on Wednesday at the Tour de Ski, where the final times from the 5k skate heat mass start told a story far bigger than any one race.

For the first time in history, an American man and an American woman won a cross country World Cup on the same day. Gus Schumacher and Jessie Diggins delivered a milestone result for the Stifel U.S. Ski Team, both winning the 5k mass start, heat, event for the third stage of the Tour de Ski. 

Diggins continued to build on her already legendary resume, earning her 31st World Cup victory and 84th career podium. Schumacher matched the moment on the men’s side, capturing his second career World Cup win and third podium. Together, their results also marked the 25th World Cup podium for the Stifel U.S. Cross Country Ski Team in Toblach alone, underscoring a long and meaningful history of American success at this venue. 

Both victories came in a brand-new format: a 5k skate contested in four staggered heats, with final results determined purely by time.

It was the first time in many years that the World Cup featured a 5k skate, and the hybrid nature of the event—blending sprint speed with distance endurance—reshaped the way athletes approached the race. Winning was no longer about position alone, but about committing to pace, efficiency and collective decision-making within each heat, and between all nations. 

For Diggins, that collaborative element became one of the most defining and enjoyable parts of the day. 

“What I thought was so cool and fun was feeling the camaraderie,” she said. 'I was talking to all the girls beforehand and was saying, ‘team number three, we’re going to do this! And we’re going to go fast and change leads… and when I go out first and blow up, you can go.' We had really great teamwork out there and I think that is why we had a really fast heat. It was fun to feel that excitement with other countries and friends from the World Cup. Maybe that wasn’t the goal to get teamwork across countries, but for me, that was the goal.”

“I think this is a distance that suits me,” Schumacher said. “It was so fast, so fun and my group was working together really well, which made it fun.” The collaboration wasn’t accidental. “The other guys and I talked about our strategy before the race, and truly, I was impressed by how responsive they all were. The goal was to make the whole heat a lot faster by how hard we went out—and it worked.”

Across the day, that shared understanding echoed through each heat - it was all about producing the fastest possible time.  In several heats, athletes worked together, trading leads to maintain speed without unnecessary effort before the climbs, then committing even more fully as the course began to descend. This was evident in both Diggins' and Schumacher's heats, where at each time check, a different athlete was leading the pack. In an event that is so short and fast, timing was everything, and so were calculated movements. 

Schumacher’s winning heat showcased just how high that bar was. Off the gun, Schumacher was quick. Setting the pace that did not slow. Knowing the other heats were finishing in under 10 minutes, he knew he had to do so. With the coaches and wax technicians out on course with whiteboards writing down splits, the entire U.S. team knew where they were in their heat. Across the finish line, though, Schumacher may have won, but he needed to wait for two more heats to race before knowing the final result. For Diggins, the sentiment was the same - hurry up and wait. 

Beyond the racing itself, Diggins was quick to credit the team behind the scenes. 

“Huge congratulations to all of the wax techs,” she said. “Today’s win was a huge part thanks to them.” She also shared in the significance of the moment on the men’s side. “I am also so proud of Gus and so excited for him. He works so hard and really deserves this.”

“I think it’s super cool,” he said when asked what it meant to make history alongside Diggins. “Jessie had to be a huge favorite today, so it was up to us to hold up our end,” he added with a laugh.

The historic double victory carried meaning well beyond the podium. Diggins and Schumacher stood as the first American woman and man to win the same World Cup event on the same day. That momentum extended down the results sheet, with Julia Kern finishing 10th, her first top-10 result of the season, Ben Ogden in 20th and JC Schoonmaker in 29th. Jessie Diggins continues her sizable lead in the Tour de Ski overall standings. Schumacher now sits in sixth overall. 

Tomorrow, the fourth stage will be the 20k pursuit, where athletes chase the overall leaders of the Tour de Ski based on their time behind the overall leader. 

RESULTS
Women
Men

Tour de Ski Standings 
Women
Men

Jessie Diggins delivered a strong performance in the second stage of the Tour de Ski on Monday, skiing to third place in the women’s 10k classic and moving into the overall lead of both the Tour de Ski and continuing her lead in the overall World Cup standings.

Diggins finished behind Norway’s Astrid Øyre Slind, who claimed victory and Austria’s Teresa Stadlober in second. The podium marked the 83rd World Cup podium of Diggins’ career and her 13th career World Cup podium in Toblach, Italy, a venue that has been central to her success since her first win there in the 5k skate in 2016.

Conditions in Toblach evolved throughout the day. The men raced under warm, sunny skies in classic Toblach weather, while the women took to the course with the sun set behind the Italian mountains, leaving the track fully shaded. 

Diggins, who favors individual start events due to the "race against the clock mentality," was aggressive from the opening gun, posting strong, steady splits through each checkpoint and keeping herself firmly in contention throughout the race. At the 2.1k time check, Diggins was 12.6 seconds out from the lead, sitting in fourth, behind Sweden's Frida Karlsson, Slind and Stadlober. Then, she turned on the jets. At the halfway mark, Diggins was sitting in third, decreasing the time back from the leader. With Karlsson's lead dwindling, it was now a fight between the American, Austrian and Norwegian. Over the final two kilometers, the effort intensified as she fought to the line. At each coaching zone, the U.S. tech team and support staff were in position, screaming at Diggins to just keep fighting. Fighting, she did. 

She ultimately crossed the finish line in third, a result that proved decisive in the overall standings. Diggins now holds the Tour de Ski lead and remains atop the World Cup standings, a position she carried into the Tour. A two-time Tour de Ski champion, Diggins finished third overall last season and is racing her final Tour de Ski with a focus on both performance and enjoyment.

In a discipline Diggins never considered her strong suit, classic racing has started to really take form for her. Winning the classic event last year at the Tour — the first classic victory of her career — Diggins was surprised with how well she skied today. 

"I was super surprised when I heard I was fighting for the podium," said Diggins when a reporter asked her if she was surprised by the result in a classic event. "I was like, 'no', but then realized I was one of the last starters, so I suppose it was true when my techs told me I was in the mix. But I was just trying to ski as smoothly as possible and try to put my best classic technique, so that I can retire liking classic!" 

On the men’s side, Gus Schumacher led the U.S. team with a 17th-place finish in the 10k classic. JC Schoonmaker finished 42nd, Kevin Bolger 43rd, Ben Ogden 47th, Zak Ketterson 79th and Jack Young 93rd. Ketterson was fighting for a top-15 finish when a crash on the downhill took crucial seconds away. He is okay. For Ogden, an unfortunate pole break in a distant part of the course took away important seconds. Julia Kern placed 41st for the women.

The Tour de Ski pauses on Tuesday for a rest day before resuming on Wednesday, Dec. 31, with the third stage — a 5k skate featuring a heat-start format, a returning and still relatively new format for the Tour.

"I'm taking it one day at a time. You never know what is going to happen on the Tour, you just have to enjoy every day and do your best. And now, I am just going to eat a lot of pizza, rest a lot tomorrow and probably watch Netflix with Julia (Kern)." 

RESULTS
Women
Men

TOUR DE SKI STANDINGS
Women
Men

The 20th edition of the Tour de Ski opened Sunday in Toblach, Italy with a fast and chaotic skate sprint that set the tone for the weeklong World Cup stage race. The annual tour, which traditionally begins in Toblach and concludes in Val di Fiemme — the host venue of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games — brought success for the Stifel U.S. Ski Team, led once again by Jessie Diggins, and strong results, with six Americans in the top 30. 

Ten American athletes started the 2025 Tour de Ski, including four women — Diggins, Julia Kern, Luci Anderson and Alayna Sonnesyn — and six men — Gus Schumacher, Ben Ogden, J.C. Schoonmaker, Jack Young, Kevin Bolger and Zak Ketterson. The event hosts six races over eight days between two venues. Similar to the Tour de France, if an athlete does not finish a stage or drops out, they cannot continue in the Tour. 

Diggins, a two-time Tour de Ski overall champion and the defending 2024-25 Crystal Globe winner, anchored the U.S. performance on the day, advancing to the final and finishing just off the podium in fourth. 

The opening sprint was notable for its depth of American success, with six U.S. athletes advancing to the knockout heats, the most advancing to the heats of the 2025-26 season. Schumacher qualified second overall, just a second behind Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, who went on to win the men’s race. Ogden and Young also carried momentum into Toblach after top-five finishes in the final skate sprint before the holiday break in Davos, Switzerland.

In the women’s quarterfinals, Diggins and Kern were paired together in the fourth heat of the day. The racing was marked by a mix of smooth skiing and multiple crashes across the course. At the end of the race, Kern was unable to advance and Diggins moved on to the semifinals by finishing second in the heat. 

Diggins skied a composed and tactical semifinal, controlling the pace early before settling into the draft through the finishing stretch. She crossed the line in third and briefly waited to see if her time would be enough to advance as a lucky loser. Moments later, Diggins and Sweden’s Johanna Hagström were confirmed into the final.

On the men’s side, Schumacher was the lone American to advance out of the quarterfinals. Bolger, Ogden and Young all narrowly missed progression, finishing less than one second outside the top two advancing positions in their respective heats. Schumacher’s semifinal proved difficult, as he was surrounded by Norwegian skiers and Austria’s Benjamin Moser. Despite fighting for position throughout the heat, making smart moves on the corners and skiing strongly, Schumacher was unable to advance to the final.

The men’s results were highlighted by four Americans finishing inside the top 30. Bolger posted a season-best result in 15th, Schumacher finished 11th, Ogden took 13th and Young placed 19th.

In the women’s final, attention centered on Diggins as she looked to defend her victory from the same Toblach sprint one year earlier. Against a stacked field, Norway’s Kristine Stavaas Skistad claimed the win, followed by Germany’s Coletta Rydzek in second and Sweden’s Maja Dahlqvist in third. Diggins battled through the final meters to finish fourth, just off the podium, while Kern placed 17th overall.

“It was fun to have another skate sprint,” Diggins said. “It’s fun to feel like my speed is coming and that the race sharpness is coming into place. I’m just excited for one last Tour de Ski.”

The Tour de Ski continues Sunday with the second stage in Toblach, with the 10k classic. In the overall Tour de Ski standings, Diggins is third and Schumacher leads the men in 10th. 

Watch LIVE on skiandsnowboard.live, with the men kicking things off at 5:45 a.m. ET and the women at 8:45 a.m. ET. 

RESULTS
Women
Men

Tour de Ski Overall Standings
Women
Men

Ben Ogden marked his 100th World Cup start with his best result of the season, finishing fifth in Friday’s skate sprint in Davos, while Jack Young delivered a breakthrough performance with a career-best fourth place in his first-ever World Cup sprint final.

It was another sunny day in the Swiss Alps, where the third World Cup of the season landed in Davos, Switzerland. With three races for the weekend, today was the second, and the first skate sprint of the 2025-26 season. Six Americans advanced through to the sprint heats, including Ogden, Young and JC Schoonmaker on the men’s side, along with Jessie Diggins, Julia Kern and Alayna Sonnesyn for the women. 

The day started out with fast results in the quarterfinals, with Ogden crossing the line in second in a blistering 2:20.70 seconds. Young finished sixth. Based on those results, everyone knew it was going to be a big day. Fast forward to the final lunge across the finish, it was two U.S. men in the top five... and not only two top-five results, but a career best by Young and a season's best by Ogden. 

Young, the Vermont native, quietly emerged onto the international scene after an unconventional path to elite cross country skiing. A former football quarterback and baseball outfielder, Young chose to focus on skiing in high school before competing collegiately at Colby College, where he became the program’s first athlete to earn a spot on the Stifel U.S. Ski Team.

Now a regular World Cup starter, Young showed that he belongs here. 

In the quarterfinals, Ogden controlled his heat, taking the win, with Young close behind in second, moving both athletes into the semifinals. A notable moment came in the men’s heats when Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo failed to move on after a near-fall in the final corner — an uncharacteristic exit for the multiple-time Olympic and world champion.

Then, it was onto the semis. Ogden and Young lined up together again and both advanced through. 

In the final heat, Ogden and Young, who stayed composed, positioned themselves patiently before launching a late surge down the finishing straight. Young edged past Ogden in the final meters to a fourth-place finish. Ogden followed closely in fifth, capping a memorable day for the Stifel U.S. Ski Team. The race was ultimately won by France's Lucas Chanavat, who surprised everyone by missing most of fall training due to injury. Second place was won by Italy's Federico Pellegrino and third was Norway's Oskar Opstad Vike. For the Americans in the heat, Schoonmaker, who had an unfortunate crash that took him out of contention in the heats, was 27th. 

"This result means so so much," said Young. "It really feels like proof that I can make it to the top on this sport. If I told myself just 3 years ago that I would have a 4th place on the World Cup I would have thought I was insane. I still don’t think today has really set in."

For the women, though Diggins, Kern and Sonnesyn did not advance out of the quarterfinals, it was a step in the right direction and a good race to get the legs heated up for tomorrow's 10k skate. 

"I’m proud of making a detailed race plan and starting faster in the qualifier today!" said Kern. "I felt much more like myself out there today, and played the tactical game, with some good moves, and unfortunate outcomes with an obstruction by another athlete. I’m excited to take this fresher energy into tomorrow, and the endurance base I feel to build on my momentum in a distance race and see what happens tomorrow."

The women's podium was topped by Sweden's Jonna Sundling, with Norway's Mathilde Myhrvold in second and Nadine Faehndrich third in front of her home crowd. Diggins was 15th, Julia Kern 16th, and Sonnesyn 27th.

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The World Cup weekend in Trondheim, Norway, wrapped up with a 10k skate interval start — one of Jessie Diggins’ premiere race formats — and once again, she delivered. Coming off her first-ever skiathlon win yesterday, Diggins entered the day with all eyes on her. Crossing the line in third, Diggins took home her third World Cup podium of the season, in only six races. Gus Schumacher led the American men, just outside the top-10 by .3 seconds, landing 11th. 

With athletes racing the clock in an interval start, the times remained tight from the opening kilometers. Sweden’s Ebba Andersson, third in Saturday’s skiathlon, set an early blistering pace that was only matched by a few. Through the time checks, Diggins was always in contention. The Trondheim course favored those with fast tempo, quick turnovers and the ability to adjust from going up and down. For Diggins, it was all about digging deep from start to finish. At the 4.2k check point, she broke into the top three, sitting just .04 seconds back from Sweden's Jonna Sundling and Ebba Andersson. From there, she never fell out of podium contention. 

Sweden’s Moa Illar also had a standout day, surpassing teammate Jonna Sundling’s time and inserting herself into podium contention. By the 9.2k mark — the final time check before the finish — Diggins was 13.3 seconds back in third, narrowly holding off Sundling with the podium. 

Andersson ultimately crossed the line as the day’s winner, finishing two seconds ahead of Illar. Diggins attacked the final kilometers with strong closing speed, collapsing at the finish after an all-out effort to secure third place, 16.5 seconds behind Andersson.

The result caps a strong weekend for Diggins: two podiums in two days, and now three podiums in her last six starts. She has been on the podium in 50% of her races so far this 2025–26 season and will continue to wear the yellow World Cup leader bib as the tour heads next to Davos, Switzerland.

"I was super grateful and excited for how the season has started, and it's one of those things where you work so hard in the off-season, but you don't know how it's really going to go until you actually start racing," said Diggins, post-race. "And even then, the season is long. Right now, I'm really grateful that it's been going so well. It's been fun to share it with the team. In terms of today's race, I was fighting for every single second out there. Because you just never know. I mean, you are getting splits, but you never know how anyone else will close. You're just fighting as hard as you can to just cross that finish line with nothing left. And I did that today, and I am proud of that."

The women's race was won by Andersson, Ilar in second and Diggins third. Julia Kern was the next American in 40th, Kendall Kramer  46th, Rosie Brennan  51st, Alayna Sonnesyn 55th and Kate Oldham 63rd. 

On the men’s side, Gus Schumacher delivered the top American performance of the day, finishing 11th - 0.3 seconds outside the top 10. He crossed the line 35.4 seconds behind Norway’s Einar Hedegart, who took home his first World Cup win. It was a strong showing for Schumacher, who was eager to rebound after Saturday’s skiathlon. The 10k skate has been a special event for him; it’s the format in which he earned his first career World Cup victory at the Stifel Loppet Cup in Minneapolis. Andreas Fjorden Ree was second and Martin Loewstroem Nyenget third. Zak Ketterson was 23rd, another strong top 30, Kevin Bolger 33rd, Zanden McMullen 43rd, John Steel Hagenbuch 44th, Ben Ogden 49th and Luke Jager 61st. 

Now, the team heads to Davos, Switzerland, for a three-race series next weekend before all athletes break for the holidays. 

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