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02/21 06:21 CST Klaebo becomes 1st athlete to win 6 golds at a Winter Games as
Norway sweeps 50km mass start
Klaebo becomes 1st athlete to win 6 golds at a Winter Games as Norway sweeps
50km mass start
By BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
TESERO, Italy (AP) --- Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed his historic
gold medal sweep of the men's cross-country skiing events on Saturday by
winning his sixth race and set the record for the most golds by one athlete in
a single Winter Olympics.
Klaebo's victory in the 50-kilometer mass start race shattered the nearly
50-year record set by American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five golds in
the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
All of Heiden's wins were in individual races and two of Klaebo's have come in
team events, so Heiden's record for individual wins still stands.
Klaebo's teammates, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, took silver, and Emil Iversen,
won bronze in a Norwegian sweep.
Klaebo also extended his record for most career Winter Olympic gold medals to
11 over three Games. The previous record had been eight, which Klaebo broke
Feb. 15.
Klaebo has the second-most Olympic golds overall. U.S. swimming great Michael
Phelps has 23.
The win gave Norway a record 18th gold medal and further increased their lead
in the total medal count in these games to 40 overall.
The country set the record Friday for the most gold medals won by a nation at a
single Winter Olympics when biathlete Johannes Dale-Skjevdal won the
15-kilometer mass start race.
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