Marit Bjoergen (picture) won the ladies race clearly ahead of Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen who lost 1:53 sec. Tona Dalen claimed third place with a big gap of 04:33 sec. Marit Bjoergen was pleased with her victory: "Last year we had fantastic weather, today there were tough conditions and a real winter weather"said Marit to langrenn.com.

Sjur Røthe won on the men's side Torgeir Skare Thygesen. Big favorite of the race Anders Aukland had to be happy with the third place as he lost on the winner 00:03 sec. International participation of Switzerland's Curdin Perl was expected but due to air travel lockdown he could not appear at the start.