Norway has won it's 10th consecutive men's 4 x 10 relay gold medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland. It was a two team battle between Norway and Russia and despite a 17.7 second lead heading into the third exchange Russia's Sergey Ustiugov managed to cut the deficit to +4.6 seconds at the finish line but the gold was for Norway. Russia took silver and Sweden battled back from 7th place after the second exchange to take the bronze. Sweden's Marcus Hellner recorded the fastest third leg and brought the team into medal contention.
Sweden had Calle Halfvarsson as the anchor and amongst the 4 team fight for the final podium position, he was the best finisher. The games began early between Halfvarsson, Finland's Heikkinen, Germany's Boegl and Switzerland's Perl with no one wanting to lift the pace to early to thin the group down. Sweden, Finland and Switzerland entered the final curve together with Halfvarsson leading the group. A fall by Heikkinen on the final curve took Finland out of the bronze medal battle. Switzerland's Perl kept Halfvarsson honest all the way to the line arriving just 0.2 seconds behind in 4th. Heikkinen recovered in time from his fall to bring Finland across for 5th just ahead of Germany in 6th.










