Nordic SkiingCross country skiing
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Sunday 17 February 2019 5 minutes reading time
In the women's 10 km in classical technique, Kerttu Niskanen is imposing on his second victory in the world cup 5 years after his first success. Vince with a comeback in the final where in the closing intertempi has managed to increase the pace and to conquer the first place of only 3 '' ''. In second place Nadine Faehndrich who played a good race touching the victory of a few seconds behind the Finnish. In third position Natalia Nepryaeva the most awaited today at the starting gate due to the important absences. The Russian appeared a little 'understated has failed to take advantage of positioning on the lowest step of the podium at 12' '' '6. Fourth position for Yulia Belorukova at 14 '' '' 4, fifth Alisa Zhambalova at 30 '' '' 9, sixth Victoria Carl at 32 '' '' 5. Excellent performance for the 99-year-old baby talent '' Frida Karlson who finishes in seventh place at 34 '' '' 8. Eighth place for Teresa Stadlober to 37 '' '' 5, ninth the Masako Ishida Japanese to 46 '' '' 2, to close the top ten Anne Kylloenen 57 '' '' 8
The best of the blue is Lucia Scardoni with the fourteenth place after yesterday's good test and growing after the Italian championships in Cogne. Immediately behind another Italian Caterina Ganz with a regular test without excesses, perhaps even in view of the upcoming world championships. A test worthy of note is that of Anna Comarella who wins the first points in the World Cup placing the twenty-second place. In twenty-ninth position Elisa Brocard was placed, out of the thirty Sara Pellegrini (31.), Francesca Franchi (35.) and Cristina Pittin (42.).
In the overall World Cup standings, the Russian Natalia Nepryaeva gnaws some points to the leader, the Norwegian Ostberg stops at 1237 points. Now the Russian has a disadvantage of 98 points; in third position at 1002 points, Krista Parmakoski also she does not start this today.
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In the men's field, in his most congenial technique, Alexander Bolshunov triumphs inflicting abysmal detachments to rivals; the closest, after trying for 7-8 kilometers to keep up the pace of the Russian is the world champion, the Finnish Iivo Niskanen who pays to the finish 43.7 seconds. On the day in which, thanks to the absence of Norwegian cross-country skiers who are already in full mode World Championships, the Russian army places four athletes in the first six positions, is third at 55.9 Alexander Bessmertnykh that precedes the Kazakh Alexey Poltoranin and compatriots Ilia Poroshkin and Evgenyi Belov.
The best of the Italians is Giandomenico Salvadori who closes at the seventeenth psoto at 1.55.0 from Bolshunov; in the points area, deployed from the twenty-second to the twenty-fourth place, Maicol Rastelli, Francesco De Fabiani and Stefan Zelger.
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