GESTBLOM Linn

Linn Persson won her semifinal; then made her day by winning the mass start finale last weekend at the Blinkfestivalen, topping a field that included World Cup Total Score winner Marte Olsbu Roeiseland and the previous day’s super sprint winner Marketa Davidova.

Linn Persson after winning one of the two semi-finals, took control early, and despite two standing penalties went on to win the Blinkfestivalen women’s mass start in 14:50.7. Moments after Persson’s win, “Mr. Blinkfestivalen” Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen won the men’s mass start in 13:11.3, giving him ten victories at Blink since 2014.

How do you top a season with over 30 podiums, one Olympic Gold and four Silver medals, women second and fourth and a man third in the World Cup Total Score, plus the Women’s World Cup Relay Score Globe for good measure? That is the challenge for Sweden’s Head Coach Johannes Lukas and his staff as they analyzed the 2021/22 season.

JT Boe and Sturla Holm Laegreid intensified their battle for the Total Score title, Tiril Eckhoff simply kept on winning, the German men won the relay after a four-year wait with almost the same lineup that they had in Antholz 2017, a shuffled lineup brought the first-ever relay Total Score