Tobias Angerer and Virpi Kuitunen won World Cup cross-country ski freestyle races in the French Alps on Saturday.
Angerer, the defending men's overall champion from Germany, finished the 30km freestyle race in 1 hour, 17 minutes, 11.8 seconds.
Aleksander Legkov was next six-tenths of a second back and fellow Russian Eugeny Dementiev was and third eight-tenths behind.
Eldar Ronning finished 51st but retained the overall World Cup lead with 332 points, followed by Norwegian compatriot Tor Arne Hetland (252) and Angerer (202). Hetland finished 15th on Saturday.
Five-time Olympic biathlon champion Ole Einar Bjorndalen of Norway finished 16th.
"I picked the wrong pair of skis ... it was very heavy out here," Bjorndalen said.
Bjorndalen won the season opener in Sweden a month ago, his first career World Cup cross-country ski victory.
He skipped this weekend's World Cup biathlon meet in Austria to improve his chances of making the Norwegian cross-country team for the World Nordic Ski Championships in Sapporo, Japan, in February, while he continues to compete on the biathlon circuit.
Last season, Bjorndalen won the overall World Cup biathlon title for a record-tying fourth time, capping it with his eighth victory at the cradle of Nordic skiing at Holmenkollen outside Oslo in March.
Kuitunen won the women's 15km freestyle in 42:08.8, edging Finnish teammate Riita Liisa Roponen by three-tenths of a second.
Kuitunen leads the overall standings with 422 points. Marit Bjorgen, the defending overall champion from Norway who didn't compete, is second with 314 points and eighth-placed Petra Majdic of Slovenia is third with 306 points.
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