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Less than two weeks after the Sprint in skating at the World Championships in Seefeld, Federico Pellegrino cancels the shadows of a month of January subdued and conquers the second place in Lahti stage.
Saturday 9 February 2019 3 minutes reading time
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo wins in Lahti the fifth victory of the season in a World Cup Sprint race (the seventh considering also the other competitions) demonstrating once again his superiority in this competition format. In twenty-two of Trondheim is imposed in a final that presents the starting line a Norwegian poker (the leader of the World Cup, Emil Iversen, Eirik Brandsdal, Finn haagen Krogh) and, as intruders of 'exception, the Russian Gleb Retivykh and Federico Pellegrino. The Aosta Valley rider who, two years ago in Lahti, won the world title he will defend in Seefeld, lands in the final rounds after obtaining the fourth qualifying time behind the usual Klaebo, the Norwegian Haavard Solaas Taugboel and the Finn Joni Maeki.
The Valdostano chooses the same side of the rival Klaebo's board, closes half gluing second in the quarterfinals while in the semifinals after having touched with Valnes in a critical phase, manages to close in fourth position also preceded by Brandsdal and Retivykh and is fished with the second best time of the excluded along with the Russian. In the final Pellegrino is the last to surrender to the excessive power of the World Cup leader and conquers the second position transmitting good feelings in less than two weeks from the world championship. Further away is Finn Haagen Krogh, third, who precedes Brandsdal, Iversen and Retivykh.
They did not pass the qualifications, Stefan Zelger thirty-fourth and Francesco De Fabiani, thirty-eighth.
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