pikamatka

Noun

 * 1) sprint short race at top speed

Usage notes
What is regarded as depends very much on sport. In running it's anything less than 500 meters, whereas in cross-contry skiing men's 15 kilometers is traditionally referred to as. Since roughly year 2000 the organizers of skiing events have developed more audience-friendly, short-distance races called "sprint" in English, which are called or  in Finnish.