The 21-year-old delighted the home crowd in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games host city as he clocked a time of 3min 33.88sec to top the podium in the men's 1.5 kilometres classic sprint.

Klæbo surged to a dominant victory as he finished 0.83sec ahead of Russian Sergey Ustiugov, who was forced to settle for the silver medal.

Bronze was claimed by Ustiugov's compatriot Alexander Bolshunov.

The result saw Klæbo become only the second man to win the first two World Cup sprint events of the season.

Ola Vigen Hattestad, another Norwegian, managed the feat in 2008 to 2009 when he won the first three races.

"In the final Bolshunov was skiing very fast right from the start," Klæbo said. 

"I had to push hard to keep up with him. 

"Ustiugov attacked before the last uphill and I had to be working hard to keep the position where I wanted to be."

Norway also triumphed in the women's race, held over 1.3km, as Maiken Caspersen Falla clocked 3:19.98 to secure victory.

Krista Paramkoski of Finland was over two seconds adrift in silver medal position, while Sadie Bjornsen recorded a podium finish by taking bronze.

"After Ruka I was really disappointed but bad skis is something that happens in our sport sometimes," said Falla.

"But I was feeling good. I was focused in the prologue and in all the heats. 

"I had to be focused in every heat. 

"I was not thinking about the final. 

"I felt my strength on this course was the final climb and the downhill to the stadium."