Sunday 11th February 2018 - Day 2

Summary of gold medals won

1. Simen Hegstad Kruger wins skiathlon gold in Norway 1-2-3

Norway's Simen Hegstad Kruger made a remarkable fightback to win gold in the men's skiathlon at the Winter Olympics.

Kruger, 24, was last and had to replace his poles after colliding with two other athletes in a congested start.

Yet he took the lead in the penultimate lap in Pyeongchang and raced clear to win in one hour 16 minutes 20 seconds.

Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund made it a Norwegian 1-2-3 while Team GB's Andrew Musgrave claimed seventh place.

Kruger finished eight seconds clear of Sundby, the 2014 bronze medallist, while OAR athlete Denis Spitsov came fourth after also being involved in the collision.

The men's 15km + 15km skiathlon is a mass start cross country event in which competitors swap techniques midway through the race.

There is a pit-stop halfway through the race where athletes change skis and poles to go from classic to free technique.

The men's event features eight laps of a 3.75km course and Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo led at the change-over, with Kruger 15.2 seconds behind in 14th.

Sundby and Holund led at the end of laps five and six, but by the 24.75km mark Kruger had taken the lead, with Musgrave second.

Kruger then opened up a 22-second lead early in the final lap and that was enough for him to secure his first Olympic medal.

Callum Smith, the other Brit in a field of 68 starters, finished in 57th place while Ireland's Thomas Maloney Westgard was 60th.
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2. Snowboarder Red Gerard wins United States's first gold in Pyeongchang

Teenager Red Gerard snatched a dramatic gold medal in the men's slopestyle to win the United States' first gold of the Pyeongchang Games.

The 17-year-old scored 87.16 on his final run with just four other athletes left to complete their third run.

Canadian pair Max Parrot and Mark McMorris took silver and bronze respectively.

"I feel awesome and so stoked about today," Gerard said. "I cannot believe what has just happened it is insane."

Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan and Rowan Coultas all fell in qualifying on Saturday meaning there were no Britons in the final.
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3. Dutch skater Sven Kramer clinches third straight 5,000m gold

Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer set a new Olympic record to secure a hat-trick of titles in the men's 5,000m.

Kramer, 31, looked comfortable in his heat and went ahead of the pace set by Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen with four laps to go.

He maintained his advantage to finish in six minutes 9.76 seconds.

Bloemen, a former team-mate of Kramer before switching nationality in 2015, was 1.85 seconds back with bronze going to Norway's Sverre Lunde Pedersen.

Bloemen and Pedersen could only be separated by two-thousands of a second after they fought out a tremendous battle in their heat.
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4. Arnd Peiffer wins surprise biathlon gold for Germany

Germany's Arnd Peiffer put in a flawless display of shooting to win gold in the men's 10km biathlon sprint.

Peiffer skied solidly but it was his performance on the shooting range which allowed him to pull clear.

Two of the favourites Johannes Thingnes Bo of Norway and France's Martin Fourcade both missed three shots in their opening shoot.

Michal Krcmar of the Czech Republic took silver ahead of Dominik Windisch of Italy.
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5. Perrine Laffont wins women's moguls

Teenager Perrine Laffont produced a brilliant final run to win the women's moguls and France's first medal of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The 19-year-old scored 78.65 to edge out defending champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada and become the first Frenchwoman to win the title.

Dufour-Lapointe was awarded 78.56 by the judges with Kazakhstan's Yulia Galysheva taking bronze with 77.40.

Australia's world champion Britteny Cox finished fifth with 75.08.
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6. David Gleirscher claims Austria's first luge gold in 50 years after Felix Loch error

David Gleirscher claimed Austria's first luge gold in 50 years after a mistake by defending champion Felix Loch on the very last run.

Loch led going into the final round and looked set to match fellow German Georg Hackl's record of winning three straight luge golds.

But he dropped out of the medals to gift American Chris Mazdzer the silver and German Johannes Ludwig the bronze.

Team GB pair AJ Rosen and Rupert Staudinger were ranked 22nd and 33rd.