Bis di Nilsson e Klaebo, De Fabiani quarto nella 15 km in alternato di Quebec City

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Bis of Nilsson and Klaebo, De Fabiani fourth in the 15 km alternating of Quebec City

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Ingvild Oestberg, third today, are getting closer to winning the World Cup.

Saturday 23 March 2019 5 minutes reading time

The breaking of a stick two kilometers from the finish line of the Quebec City in the classic technique could have decided the assignment of the crystal ball in the men's field; the incident cuts off the fight for the top positions of the stage, with relative bouns, the Russian Alexander Bolshunov who has to settle for seventh place and attend the umpteenth victory of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo who has the upper hand in the five sprint that solves the stage . Only the Norwegian champion is able to precede an emotional Alex Harvey who, at the closing pace of his career in front of his home crowd, wins the umpteenth podium of his career, also celebrated by his opponents while Didrik Toenseth precedes a remount before a gluing Francesco De Fabiani, excellent fourth. At about fifteen seconds Emil Iversen wins the pursuit sprint and precedes Bolshunov, Dario Cologna, Simen Krueger and the Finnish Ristomatti Hakkola, tenth. A good performance by Federico Pellegrino led him to close in fourteenth position. In the World Cup Final mini-tour ranking that will end tomorrow with the 15 km chase in free technique, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has 52 seconds ahead of Bolshunov, 52.8 on Harvey. Federico Pellegrino is sixth at 1''13 "while Francesco De Fabiani is ninth at 1''25" 4. In the overall World Cup standings there are now 42 points to separate Klaebo from Bolshunov while only tomorrow's test is missing which will award 200 points to the Tour winner (160 per second) in addition to the stage points (50 points to go down). Here comes the surprise in the women's field where in the penultimate race of the season falls the unbeaten in distance trials of the Norwegian Therese Johaug who shows up on the finishing straight with compatriot Ingvild Oestberg and the Swedish Stina Nilsson who, keeping faith with the title of queen of Sprint won yesterday, imposes itself. Second place for Johaug and third place for Oestberg that allows her to further extend on the Russian Natalya Nepryaeva who, still debilitated by the illness of Falun, is today only nineteenth. The 21-year-old Swedish Ebba Andersson is fourth of the stage, finishing 25.4 behind the winner and ahead of the Finnish Krista Parmakoski. The best of the blue Lisa Brocard is twenty-second. In the provisional ranking of the final mini-tour, Stina Nilsson brings her lead to Ingvild Oestberg to 33.2 and to 49.4 on Therese Johaug; Natalia Nepryaeva is twentieth at 2''10 "3 while in the general classification of the World Cup there are 144 points that separate Oestberg from Nepryaeva

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