Scottish teenager Andrew Musgrave finished 79th in the sprint at his first World Cup race in Kuusamo, Finland.

The Aberdeenshire skier was just 20.1 seconds off the winner in the 1.4km classic sprint race and gained Britain's best-ever spring points (135.32).

Roy Young, Head Coach of the British Nordic Team said: “Andrew has raced hard here and will have learnt a lot.

"We know we will get better in sprints as we move on."

Meanwhile Italy's Peter Fill won the opening downhill of the World Cup season at Lake Louise but there was disappointment for Scotland’s Finlay Mickel.

Swiss giant slalom specialist Carlo Janka, starting way back in the field, finished a surprising second but Mickel was well over two seconds slower than Fill in a distant 43rd place.