Benjamin Moser cheers: career performance at the cross-country skiing sprint in Ruka!

The cross-country skiing world cup in Ruka brought a brilliant result for Austria, especially for the Tyrolean Benjamin Moser. The 27-year-old achieved his best result in his career on Saturday and won the 8th place. He showed an impressive performance by completing the qualification as a second and was victorious in the quarter -finals. In the semifinals, however, he had to give up and missed the final by 1.36 seconds behind the heat winner Marcus Grate from Sweden. Despite this hurdle, Moser expressed satisfaction and spoke enthusiastically about his “fantastic” start of the season, as he revealed in an interview with ORF. He emphasized that the prologue was "real mega" and only the Norwegian star Johannes Hösflot Kläbo was faster than he was.

In addition to Moser's strong performance, the Austrian cross-country team, consisting of only a few athletes, had a total of three top ten places in the World Cup start in Finland. In addition to Benjamin Moser, Teresa Stadlober (8th place) and Mika Vermeulen (9th place) also landed in the front ranks in the 10-kilometer race in classic technology. Such successes show that the small team has big ambitions. Moser, who thanked his service team for the "rocket", has clear goals for the rest of the season: "to create the final". This appearance in Ruka and the associated success increase the expectations of the next competitions, and the Austrian cross -country skiers are burning to show what they are made of, as well as the Kurier reported.