Norwegian cross country skier Petter Northug won a 50 km mass start race today to close the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic. The victory was his third of these championships; he also won last Sunday’s 30 km pursuit race and Friday’s team 4x10 km relay.
"A great race for me," Northug told the Associated Press. "In the last hill, I had a good position and here at the last few hundred meters I had a good feeling, so it's great to take the gold medal today. It's amazing to have three golds here."
Russian Maxim Vylegzhanin was just .7 seconds back to claim the sliver medal, while German Tobias Angerer grabbed his third podium of the event in third.
James Southam led the U.S., finishing 39th.
Norway took home the most World Championship medals with 12. Germany followed with nine, while Finland captured 8. The U.S. tallied an unprecedented six medals, no more than one medal had ever been achieved by the country at a World Championship.
For all the highlights for Liberec go to UniversalSports.com.


Norwegian cross country skier Petter Northug won a 50 km mass start race today to close the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic. The victory was his third of these championships; he also won last Sunday’s 30 km pursuit race and Friday’s team 4x10 km relay.

"A great race for me," Northug told the Associated Press. "In the last hill, I had a good position and here at the last few hundred meters I had a good feeling, so it's great to take the gold medal today. It's amazing to have three golds here."

Russian Maxim Vylegzhanin was just .7 seconds back to claim the sliver medal, while German Tobias Angerer grabbed his third podium of the event in third.

James Southam led the U.S., finishing 39th.

Norway took home the most World Championship medals with 12. Germany followed with nine, while Finland captured eight. The U.S. tallied an unprecedented six medals, no more than one medal had ever been achieved by the country at a World Championship.

For all the highlights from Liberec go to UniversalSports.com.

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Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Time	FIS Points
1	2	3420239	NORTHUG Petter jr.	1986	NOR	1:59:38.1	0.00
2	18	3480013	VYLEGZHANIN Maxim	1982	RUS	1:59:38.8	0.14
3	7	1178162	ANGERER Tobias	1977	GER	1:59:40.1	0.39
4	6	1067291	DI CENTA Giorgio	1972	ITA	1:59:42.1	0.78
5	21	1125588	DOLIDOVICH Sergei	1973	BLR	1:59:43.7	1.09
6	19	1101047	SOMMERFELDT Rene	1974	GER	1:59:45.6	1.46
7	28	1175058	KOUKAL Martin	1978	CZE	1:59:46.2	1.58
8	40	1218902	KATTILAKOSKI Teemu	1977	FIN	1:59:46.5	1.64
9	4	1100077	VITTOZ Vincent	1975	FRA	1:59:47.2	1.77
10	11	1323468	REHEMAA Aivar	1982	EST	1:59:47.3	1.79
11	1	1139459	PILLER COTTRER Pietro	1974	ITA	1:59:48.0	1.93
12	35	1067485	ZORZI Cristian	1972	ITA	1:59:49.1	2.15
13	17	1177580	JONNIER Emmanuel	1975	FRA	1:59:50.7	2.46
14	15	1362656	LIVERS Toni	1983	SUI	1:59:51.4	2.59
15	54	1292234	LALLUKKA Juha	1979	FIN	1:59:51.9	2.69
16	10	3100190	BABIKOV Ivan	1980	CAN	1:59:53.8	3.06
17	22	1175155	MAGAL Jiri	1977	CZE	1:59:55.6	3.41
18	5	3480016	LEGKOV Alexander	1983	RUS	1:59:56.6	3.61
19	24	1363141	FISCHER Remo	1981	SUI	1:59:57.1	3.71
20	14	3420023	GJERDALEN Tord Asle	1983	NOR	2:00:02.7	4.80
21	34	1106867	BAJCICAK Martin	1976	SVK	2:00:02.8	4.82
22	16	3480004	DEMENTIEV Eugeniy	1983	RUS	2:00:03.9	5.03
23	3	1345875	GAILLARD Jean Marc	1980	FRA	2:00:19.4	8.06
24	12	3200015	REICHELT Tom	1982	GER	2:00:28.7	9.87
25	33	1094839	HOFFMANN Christian	1974	AUT	2:00:31.1	10.34
26	20	3180054	NOUSIAINEN Ville	1983	FIN	2:00:59.1	15.80
27	25	1362947	PERL Curdin	1984	SUI	2:01:40.6	23.89
28	13	3500139	HELLNER Marcus	1985	SWE	2:01:42.8	24.32
29	29	1286608	PERRILLAT Christophe	1979	FRA	2:01:49.2	25.57
30	31	1066224	FREDRIKSSON Mathias	1973	SWE	2:02:27.3	33.00
31	32	3500015	RICKARDSSON Daniel	1982	SWE	2:02:36.0	34.70
32	44	3660013	LASUTKIN Alexander	1983	BLR	2:03:30.4	45.31
33	37	1344129	SPERL Milan	1980	CZE	2:03:30.8	45.39
34	39	1233452	RUIZ Diego	1977	SPA	2:03:42.4	47.65
35	38	3150035	KOZISEK Dusan	1983	CZE	2:04:08.5	52.74
36	26	3480085	ARTEEV Ivan	1977	RUS	2:05:06.5	64.05
37	30	3290007	HOFER David	1983	ITA	2:05:38.7	70.33
38	8	3180053	HEIKKINEN Matti	1983	FIN	2:06:13.3	77.08
39	51	1271864	SOUTHAM James	1978	USA	2:06:15.2	77.45
40	46	3100091	BUTLER Christopher	1986	CAN	2:07:45.6	95.08
41	55	3690003	GUMENYAK Mikhail	1980	UKR	2:08:28.7	103.49
42	50	3090024	TZINZOV Veselin	1986	BUL	2:09:08.3	111.21
43	49	1320849	GOLOVKO Andrey	1980	KAZ	2:09:21.4	113.77
44	53	3530018	KUZZY Garrott	1982	USA	2:09:34.7	116.36
45	42	1277393	LEYBYUK Roman	1977	UKR	2:09:35.0	116.42
46	48	1315805	MALAK Michal	1980	SVK	2:10:13.4	123.91
47	45	3670020	OSIPOV Aleksandr	1987	KAZ	2:11:17.1	136.33
48	59	3120046	XU Wenlong	1987	CHN	2:12:04.1	145.50
49	58	1291070	THOR OLSEN Jonas	1978	DAN	2:12:36.9	151.90
50	57	3040005	MOCK Andrew	1982	AUS	2:13:40.6	164.32
51	61	1214731	MALUHINS Olegs	1969	LAT	2:14:29.7	173.90
52	60	3040080	WATSON Callum	1989	AUS	2:16:27.5	196.87
53	47	3690022	SHTUN Vitaliy	1986	UKR	2:17:38.3	210.68
54	62	3040001	DARLINGTON Chris	1982	AUS	2:20:12.3	240.72
55	66	3040013	RAYMOND Mark	1979	AUS	2:23:56.1	284.36
Lapped
	72	3270004	GRIFFIN Paul	1979	IRE
	71	3170004	SLETTEMARK Oeystein	1967	DAN
	70	3410006	FALCONER Benjamin Keith	1980	NZE
	68	3920002	BAENA Cesar	1986	VEN
	67	3550061	TETERIS Janis	1975	LAT
	65	3280000	KUZMIN Daniel	1978	ISR
	63	1049928	GHISLER Ulrich	1967	DAN
Did not start
	41	3390002	KOKK Kaspar	1982	EST
	27	3670006	CHEREPANOV Sergey	1986	KAZ
	23	1263231	HOFSTAD Tore Ruud	1979	NOR
	9	1248293	SOEDERGREN Anders	1977	SWE
Did not finish
	69	3950000	CARCELEN Roberto	1970	PER
	64	3410004	ANGLEM Nat	1973	NZE
	56	3660021	KUZMENKO Sergej	1986	BLR
	52	3660029	KARNEYENKA Leanid	1987	BLR
	43	3670022	VELICHKO Yevgeniy	1987	KAZ
	36	1106091	BATORY Ivan	1975	SVK