Norway’s double Olympic nordic skiing champion Petter Northug won his fifth race of the World Cup season here on Saturday when he won the pursuit on the last weekend of the season.

Northug, who is already assured of both the distance and overall World Cup crystal globes, finished in a time of 1hr 00min 03.7sec ahead of Germany’s Tobias Angerer, who was 1.7sec adrift, while Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic was third, 1.8sec behind the winner.