Klæbo has won both sprint events this season - the classic in Ruka in Finland last month and freestyle in Swiss town Davos last weekend - and will be looking to make it a hat-trick tomorrow, prior to the team event on Sunday (December 22).

The 23-year-old has the most career sprint World Cup wins among men, with 18.

Italy's Federico Pellegrino has the joint-third most, with 13, and won the only previous sprint freestyle event held in Planica in January 2016.

Klæbo leads the overall FIS Cross-Country World Cup standings with 520 points.

Fellow Norwegian Emil Iversen is second on 448 points, while Russia's Alexander Bolshunov is third on 375.

Norway's Maiken Caspersen Falla comes into the women's sprint freestyle event having won in Ruka and finishing second to Sweden's Linn Svahn in Davos.

She tops the discipline World Cup standings with 130 points, to nearest challenger Svahn's 100.

Falla has won 20 World Cup individual sprint events, putting her level with Slovenia's Petra Majdič in second place on the all-time women's list. 

Only Norway's Marit Bjørgen has won more, with 40 victories.

Third in the discipline World Cup standings with 87 points is Sweden's Stina Nilsson, who has won 14 World Cup sprint event wins in freestyle - the second-most behind Bjørgen, who has 24.

Nilsson has won both World Cup sprint events in Planica, in freestyle in January 2016 and in classic style in January 2018.