Great Britain's top competitor at the Open Nordics Middle Distance and World Cup race was Rachael Elder with a strong 37th position. Elder was challenging for a top 30 place but two 30 second mistakes cost her a better result. Helen Palmer was next in 52nd, closely followed by Helen Bridle, Sarah Rollins and Heather Gardner.
Matthew Speake was best of the men in 60th place, followed by Oli Johnson and Matthew Crane. Graham Gristwood has withdrawn from the sprint race tomorrow after struggling to overcome recent illness and Oli Johnson will take his place.
It was a day for Sweden with Peter Oberg and Helena Jansson winning the mens and womens races.
Great Britain has a great team for tomorrow's Sprint race with Scott Fraser (4th European Champs 2008), Sarah Rollins (13th World Champs 2008), David Brickhill-Jones (4th Finnish Champs 2009), Helen Bridle (6th World Champs 2006) and Rhodri Buffett (2nd JK Sprint 2009) all in great form this season. Unfortunately Pippa Whitehouse and Graham Gristwood have had to withdraw from the race.
You can follow the heat and final live online here.
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