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Jessie Diggins takes bronze medal in cross-country sprint

Cross-Country Skiing - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Day 4
Jessie Diggins (left) of Team USA Maja Dahlqvist of Team Sweden (R) celebrates after winning the bronze and silver medals respectively as they cross the finish line during the women's cross country sprint free final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
Matthias Hangst | Getty Images

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Jessie Diggins took the bronze medal in the women’s freestyle sprint race on Tuesday. She's the first woman in U.S. Olympic history to claim a medal in an individual cross-country ski event.

Diggins, of Afton, Minn., finished 3.16 seconds behind first-place Jonna Sundling of Sweden with a 3:09.68 finish. Second place was also Team Sweden’s Maja Dahlqvist, who finished 2.88 seconds behind the lead finish.

Diggins teammate, Rosie Brennan of Anchorage, Alaska, finished in fourth place, finishing 4.49 seconds behind the top finishing time.

Diggins claimed a gold medal in 2018 in the women’s team sprint relay with Kikkan Randall.

Sundling is a first-time Olympian but has two world championship sprint titles, and team sprint titles with Dahlqvist.

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Silver medal winner Sweden's Maja Dahlqvist (leff), gold medal winner Sweden's Jonna Sundling and bronze medal winner Jessie Diggins celebrate after the women's sprint free final event.
Tobias Schwarz | AFP via Getty Images