Federico Pellegrino and Jessica Diggins win in Cogne. Podium also for De Fabiani, second

The sun with spring temperatures and the public of great occasions greet the return of the World Cup in Cogne unfortunately penalized by the absence of many big a few days from the World Championships in Seefeld.

Saturday 16 February 2019 6 minutes reading time

The viaticum for the Sprint of the World Championships that will open on Thursday the program on the Austrian ground is the spectacular Italian double in the men's race. Having made an inventory of the absences and verified the elimination in the quarterfinals of Alexander Bolshunov, Sergei Ustiugov and the transalpine Jouve, the victory at Federico Pellegrino's home was probably in the air but the script of the final with the second place by Francesco De Fabiani come definitely by surprise. It is the DeFa, seventh time in the qualifications, to dictate the pace on the path drawn to the Prati di Sant''Orso, a loop that runs only once, challenging but very wide, without shrinking or bottlenecks, a path that allows you to start from afar and make the difference. Behind the Aosta Valley are the French Chanavat and Federico Pellegrino who at the approach of the topical moment breaks a stick and is forced to work overtime. The transalpine sets the final sprint in the head but Pellegrino with an imperious comeback jumps in the straightaway while De Fabiani does not give up that stretches on the finish line and the fotofinish conquers the second position leaving Chanavat only the third step of the podium. The US Simeon Hamilton fourth, Sondre Turvoll Fossli fifth and the Swedish Marcus Grate sixth did not arrive in the news. Stefan Zelger comes out in the quarter-finals, who tries to stay in front of the half of the race in the same battery as De Fabiani, but gives up closing sixth. They did not pass the qualifications, however, the other blues with a bit 'of regret for Davide Graz, thirty-first for only 45 cents. Claudio Muller, Mirco Bertolina, Michael Hellweger, Giacomo Gabrielli, Stefano Dellagiacoma, Enrico Nizzi, Daniele Serra, Mikael Abram, Florian Cappello and Mattia Armellini also remained outside. go to complete results In the women's field comes the first victory in a Sprint World Cup of the American Jessica Diggins that both in the quarterfinals and in the semifinals passes the turn as lucky loser, fished out thanks to time. The American precedes the German Sandra Ringwald who, after the fourth place last week in Lahti, climbs for the first on an invidual podium; the third place goes to the twenty-year-old Swedish Johanna Hagstroem who in the Cup had never gone beyond the ninth place of seven days ago in Finland. The Norwegian Ane Appelkvist Stenseth is fourth, fifth the American Sadie Bjornsen, sixth the Slovenian Eva Urevc. Lucia Scardoni gets her best result in her career in a free technique sprint. The 'azzurra hits the semi-finals in Cogne and also touches the' access to the final closing their fourth battery in 3''32 "31 to 17 cents from the US Jessica Diggins with the 'eighth place finish.Iaria Debertolis and Elisa Brocard they are fourth and fifth in the third quarter-final, as well as Greta Laurent, who after the eighth time in the time trial finished fifth his own battery won by Eva Urevc.Erano remained out in qualifying the other blue: there is no ' has made very little Francesca Franchi, thirty-second to 35 cents from the top 30, more lingered Francesca Baudin, (43.), the youngest of the group at the debut in the World Cup, Chiara De Zolt Ponte, (50.), and Alice Canclini, (55.). go to complete results

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