American Rosie Brennan notched her first cross-country skiing World Cup win in her 143rd career start, taking a freestyle sprint in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.
Brennan, a PyeongChang Olympian in the longer skiathlon, surprised herself by holding off Slovenian Anamarija Lampic by .28 of a second in the 2-minute, 40-second final. Brennan also had the fastest time in qualifying.
All of her previous individual World Cup top-10s came in events that were 10km or longer. Her best previous sprint finish was 15th.
“It’s wild,” said Brennan, a Park City, Utah, native who turned to skiing after ending a competitive gymnastics career at age 14.