Wins for Caspersen Falla, Cologna, Kofler and Lamy-Chappuis

Dec 18, 2011, 17:24 GMT

Rogla, Slovenia - Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla and Swiss skier Dario Cologna clinched cross-country victories in World Cup competition on Sunday.

Caspersen Falla beat Olympic champion Chandra Crawford from Canada and Sweden's Ida Ingemarsdotter into second and third place in Rogla.

In the men's race Cologna, secured his first victory of the season, edging out Russian Nikolay Morilov by 0.3 seconds. Anders Gloersen from Norway was third.

Austrian ski-jumper Andreas Kofler and French Nordic combined skier Jason Lamy Chappuis also enjoyed World Cup triumphs.

Kofler won the ski-jumping World Cup competition in Engelberg, Switzerland, with 264.7 points from leaps of 135 and 138 metres, to beat Poland's Kamil Stoch (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.

In Seefeld, Austria, World Cup leader Lamy-Chappuis won the day's Nordic combined event in 27 minutes 41.9 seconds from Italian Alessandro Pittin, who was 3.9 seconds behind.

Third place went to Norwegian Joergen Graabak.

The Frenchman has a convincing lead in the World Cup standings with 554 points, followed by German Tino Edelmann, who is on 381.