What Jessie Diggins has accomplished since winning an Olympic gold medal in the team spring in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
After gold medal, Jessie Diggins continued to rise
The Afton native won an overall World Cup title and the prestigious Tour de Ski in the 2020-21 season.
February 1, 2022 at 1:46AM
2018-19 season: Less than a month after the Olympics, Diggins won the 10k pursuit in Falun, Sweden, to cap off her World Cup season and second-place finish overall (third in distance). Wins: 10k pursuit, Falun, Sweden.
2019-20: Diggins recorded five top-three finishes in World Cup events and finished sixth overall. Wins: 1.6k sprint, Cogne, Italy.
2020-21: A historic season by any standard: She won the overall World Cup championship and became the second American and first U.S. woman to win the cross-country skiing's biggest prize, finishing first overall (first in distance, fourth in sprints) with three individual race wins and nine top-three finishes. She also won the eight-day, six-race Tour de Ski in January. Wins: 10k pursuit, Val Mustair, Switzerland; 10k individual, Toblach, Italy; 10k individual, Falun, Sweden; Tour de Ski.
2021-22: Closed 2021 with two World Cup wins and second-place finish in the Team Sprint at Dresden, Germany. Wins: 1.5k sprint, Lenzerheide, Switzerland; 10k mass start, Oberstdorf, Germany.
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