Andersson clinches 2025 Trondheim treble with 10K win

Ebba Andersson (SWE) secured her first victory of the FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup season and her fourth major success in Trondheim, Norway by winning the women’s 10 km Interval Start Freestyle on Sunday.

After finishing third in Saturday’s skiathlon for her first podium of the campaign, the 28-year-old reinforced her affinity for the 10 km distance: seven of her individual World Cup wins have now come over 10 km. She is also the reigning 10 km world champion on the same Granåsen course from earlier in the year, where she also claimed the skiathlon world title.

In perfect winter conditions—packed snow and freezing temperatures—the two-lap course (2 x 5 km) offered little respite, with a long opening climb out of the stadium and a gradual, rolling descent. Andersson’s steady pressure built a gap through the checkpoints: at 5 km she was two seconds up on Jessie Diggins (USA) and 3.5 seconds ahead of Jonna Sundling (SWE). While Sundling faded on lap two, Andersson extended her advantage over Diggins and then had to respond to a late charge from fellow Swede Moa Ilar.

Ilar reduced the deficit from 8.9 seconds at halfway to just 1.6 seconds by 9.2 km, but Andersson found another gear to win by two seconds at the line, clinching the ninth World Cup victory of her career. Ilar took second for her fifth individual World Cup podium and second of the season after third place in the Ruka 10 km classic a week earlier. Diggins finished 14.5 seconds further back in third, ahead of Sundling and Norway’s Astrid Øyre Slind.

Andersson said she pushed the pace on lap two knowing how tight podium battles can be in Trondheim and was mindful of Ilar’s strong finishing section: “I knew I just had to keep pushing to the very end. It’s always fun to share the podium with a teammate.”

With the World Cup moving to Davos next weekend, the overall standings are taking shape: Diggins leads with 512 points as she pursues a third straight Crystal Globe, while Ilar is 17 points back in second. Full Trondheim results and the 2025/26 World Cup schedule are available via FIS.