”It feels great. My goal was to make a flawless race and I made no mistakes at all,” said Olsson in a press release.

Förhandsfavoriten Alexandersson, who took three golds at the european CHAMPIONSHIPS last year, managed to reach the podium despite a crash. Russia’s Alena Trapeznikova won.

On the men’s side took Erik Rust EM silver behind Norwegian Lars Moholdt.

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