Jessie Diggins wins the third overall World Cross Country title and extends her US record

Jessie Diggins, the American cross-country star Jessie Diggins, won her third World Cup title on Sunday, expanded her own US record and added another large award to her decorated career.

The 33-year-old Diggins ended the sixth Sunday in a 10-kilometer skate race on the Holmenkollen-Berg in Oslo, Norway, to expand her lead against Germany's Victoria Carl in the overall ranking of the achievements at the sprint and distance events to 430 points. Individual World Cup races award 100 points to the winner, which makes diggins mathematically insurmountable the guidance of Diggins over the remaining three individual races.

It is the third World Cup title for Diggins. In the 2020-21 season, she became the first American since Bill Koch in 1982 who won, and was the first US multi-time winner when she did it again last season.

Diggins has long set up records for US Cross-Country Skiing. She is a double world champion in Team Sprint in 2013 and the 10 km long skate in 2023, the first American gold medal in an individual cross-country event at Worlds. At the 2018 Olympic Games, she teamed up with Kikkan Randall to win gold at the sprint event-it was the first Olympic gold for all American cross-country skiers. In the 2022 games, she became the first American to win an Olympic medal in a single sprint and took bronze. She also took second place in the 30 km skate in Beijing and was the only US cross-country ski driver with individual Olympic silver medals.

In her 14th World Cup season, DIGGINS has one of her best years. In a single season, she has six World Cup victory in a single season behind 2023-24 and in January in the Tour de Ski overall. Despite an additional challenge this year, Plantar fasciitis, inflammation of the tissue in the foot, was diagnosed in January.

“I am very proud of how mentally I was,” said Diggins about the races on Sunday in an audio message that was sent to media members. “I really had the feeling that I was only super -focused and committed and only pushed so hard for half a second, and that always feels good when you cross a finish line, and that was all I had with this day and my body.”

The last two stops of the world championship tour are in Tallinn, Estonia, a sprint race and Lahti, Finland, the next weekend for two individual races, a team sprint and the official crowning glory of the masters of the season. Team races do not award points for individual evaluation.

Diggins also leads 95 points over Norway's Astrid Øyre -Slind with just one race and is sixth in the sprint rating.

On Sunday, Diggins reached the finish line in 25 minutes, 49.3 seconds and fell into the snow to get to breath. At the time she was in second place in the interval race behind the Norwegian Great Therese Johaug. Moments later the Sweden Moa Ilar crossed the line in 25: 24.6, 24.7 seconds faster than diggins. This time would last, and Ilar finally landed before Norway Heidi Weng 1.6 seconds before Norway 10 seconds ago before the podium.

But the biggest price of the day went to Diggins, who said she was happy to observe her trainer and wax technician Jason Cork – whose birthday was on Sunday – to “crunch the Numbers” and find out that she had won the title.

“Today it was the big highlight,” she said.

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