United States' Jessie Diggins bursts into tears after completing a women's Tour de Ski, cross-country 10K mass start event, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Diggins finished in second placed and clinched the Tour de Ski trophy. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)United States' Jessie Diggins celebrates after winning the women's cross-country Tour de Ski, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)United States' Jessie Diggins, right, and Sweden's Ebba Andersson lie in the snow after completing a women's Tour de Ski, cross-country 10K mass start event, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Diggins finished in second placed and clinched the Tour de Ski trophy. Andersson won the race as Diggins clinched the Tour de Ski trophy.(AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)United States' Jessie Diggins cries after completing a women's Tour de Ski, cross-country 10K mass start event, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)United States' Jessie Diggins celebrates after winning the women's cross-country Tour de Ski, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)United States' Jessie Diggins poses after winning the women's cross-country Tour de Ski, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
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United States' Jessie Diggins bursts into tears after completing a women's Tour de Ski, cross-country 10K mass start event, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Diggins finished in second placed and clinched the Tour de Ski trophy. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
VAL DI FIEMME – Jessie Diggins won a first title for the United States in cross-country skiing’s Tour de Ski on Sunday.
Leading the women’s time standings after seven events, Diggins placed second in the 10-kilometer final stage of the 10-day competition raced in Italy and Switzerland.
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Her final time of more than three hours was 1 minute, 24 seconds ahead of Russian Yulia Stupak. Ebba Andersson of Sweden was third.
In 15 years of the marathon competition, Diggins’s third place three years ago is the only other podium finish by an American man or woman.
Four different Norwegians combined to win the past seven editions of the women’s Tour de Ski. The cross-country skiing power did not enter the 2021 competitions because of safety concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
Diggins, from Saint Paul, Minnesota, won an Olympic gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games in team sprint with Kikkan Randall.
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