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LEAD: Cologna and Falla take sprint races, Kofler wins ski-jump
Dec 18, 2011, 15:14 GMT
Rogla, Slovenia - Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla and Swiss skier Dario Cologna on Sunday won the World Cup cross-country sprint races in Rogla.
Falla beat Olympic champion Chandra Crawford from Canada and Sweden's Ida Ingemarsdotter into second and third place.
In the men's race Cologna secured his first season-victory, edging out Russian Nikolay Morilov by 0.3 seconds. Anders Gloersen from Norway was third.
Austrian Andreas Kofler, meanwhile, won the ski-jumping World Cup competition in Engelberg, Switzerland.
Koffler won with 264.7 points from leaps of 135 and 138 metres, to beat Poland's Kamil Stoch, who finished on 260.8 points, into second place.
Norwegian Anders Bardal, who won the competition on Saturday, finished third.
Kofler leads the World Cup standings with 508 point from Bardal, who has 390. Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer is third on 376.
Sunday's later Nordic skiing event is a combined.
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