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In the classic Otepää Sprint technique, Maiken Caspersen Falla and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo are back to victory.
Saturday 19 January 2019 5 minutes reading time
The 22nd Norwegian champion with a disarming ease the twelfth victory in the World Cup in Sprint tests that allows him to match in this particular classification Federico Pellegrino in the third position of all time, Klaebo imposes himself in a Norwegian championship final with a single intruder the Russian Alexander Bolshunov; in addition to the talent of Trondheim, the peers Erik Valnes and Mattis Stenshagen, Paal Golberg and Eirik Brandsdal find themselves at the starting point of the decisive act. Bolshunov in the initial part tries to make the big voice but on the last ascent Klaebo's attack does not allow replicas and comes the victory, the 'eighth on the last 12 sprints disputed, the fifth on the last six in classical technique. Alexander Bolshunov gets second place while third is Paal Golberg. Fourth Brandsdal, fifth Stenshagen, sixth Valnes.
Federico Pellegrino closes in tenth place; the Valle d'Aosta champion has finished his journey in the semifinals, ranking fifth in his own battery dominated by the Norwegians with Stenshagen first, Valnes second and Skar third (but eliminated). The 'blue qualified with the thirteenth time, then in the quarterfinals he came third behind Valnes and the Swedish Thorn in the fastest battery thus earning the repechage for the next round. Francesco De Fabiani focuses on the 'qualifying goal and the quarter-final closes behind Bolshunov and Brandsdal, but without returning to the lucky loser: for him comes the fourteenth place. Best result of the season for Maicol Rastelli, twentieth after entering for the first time in thirty in the time trial.
In the general classification of the Sprint World Cup Klaebo leads with 404 points against the 281 of Skar and 269 of Brandsdal. Pellegrino loses a position and is now fourth at 264.
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In the women's field, the Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla returns to victory after 10 months (it was in Drammen on March 7) which reaches 9 in the World Cup victories in Sprint tests alternating Justyna Kowalczyk, In front of them only Marit Bjoergen ( 16) m Majdic (14) and Skari (10). Absent in the final, for which it had qualified, Stina Nilsson, forced to break the Sprint 4-point victory line, the Norwegian precedes the finish line the Russian Natalya Nepryaeva and the Swedish Maja Dahlqvist that allows Sweden the presence on the podium for the tenth consecutive time in a Sprint. Fourth place for Jonna Sundling that precedes the Slovenian Katja Visnar.
The three blue registered do not exceed the qualifications. Greta Laurent gets the thirty-second place to 44 cents from the qualification while Lucia Scardoni is thirty-fourth. Caterina Ganz is ranked forty-seventh.
Maintains the head of the general classification of the World Cup, the Norwegian Oestberg with 1154 points ahead of the Finnish Parmakoski (883) with Nepryaeva consolidating the third place, going up to 881.
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