Lahti, Finland — Canadian skier Alex Harvey won the men’s 50-kilometer freestyle cross country ski race at the Nordic world championships on Sunday.

Harvey timed his final attack perfectly, taking the lead on the last corner and holding off Russian Sergei Ustyugov in the final sprint to win by 0.6 seconds. The Canadian celebrated in exuberant style, playing air guitar in front of the crowd.

“It was mayhem out there, it was such fast conditions that there was a really big group the whole way, so everyone was fighting to be in the front,” Harvey told Finnish broadcaster YLE. “People hitting each other’s skis, the poles, so my goal was just to try to stay out of trouble.”

Finland’s Matti Heikkinen was 0.8 seconds further back for bronze, with a surprise fourth place for British skier Andrew Musgrave.

It was Harvey and Canada’s first world championship gold in cross country since 2011, when he and Devon Kershaw won the team sprint event.

“I’ve been feeling good all week and really all year … but the magic wasn’t there,” Harvey said. “Today everything was there, including the magic.”

Ustyugov finished this year’s championships with five medals, two of them gold.

It was the last event of the Nordic world championships, which saw Norway take seven victories to top the medal table.

Marit Bjoergen finished with four gold medals as her Norwegian team won all six women’s cross-country events, while there were also four golds for German skier Johannes Rydzek in Nordic combined.

Hirscher Secures Slalom Crown

Kranjska Gora, Slovenia — Overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher wrapped up his fourth slalom title on Sunday with Austrian compatriot Michael Matt winning the penultimate race of the season.

Hirscher’s fourth-place finish, 0.80 seconds behind Matt, was enough for the 28-year-old to take his third globe of the weekend after his only rival, Henrik Kristoffersen, failed to qualify for the second run.

Hirscher has an insurmountable 110-point lead over the Norwegian ahead of the World Cup finals in Aspen, Colorado, this month.

Vonn EdgedOn Olympic Course

Jeongseon, South Korea — Sofia Goggia edged Lindsey Vonn into second place at a World Cup event for the second time in two days, winning the Super-G at the 2018 Olympic course on Sunday to follow her victory in the downhill.

Italy’s Goggia finished 0.04 seconds ahead of Vonn in the Super-G, 24 hours after beating her American rival by 0.07 in the downhill to capture her career first World Cup win.

Prior to this weekend, which is also serving as a test event for the Jeongseon Alpine Center ahead of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Goggia had previously had nine podium finishes without taking center-spot.

Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec also repeated her third-place from the downhill finishing 0.53 seconds behind Goggia on the 1¼-mile course east of Seoul.

Stuhec moves to first place in the season-long standings ahead of Tina Weirather of Leichenstein, who placed ninth here on Sunday, to lead the race for the Super-G crystal globe, the prize awarded for the overall season champion.

Vonn, who is still progressing on her comeback after breaking her arm last November, said after placing second on Saturday that that the result “just makes me even more hungry for the Olympics next year.”