Fund: still the pink Norway in the Ulricehamn relay. Russian masculine superpower

Johaug and companions conquer the eleventh consecutive win in the World Cup; since March 2011 they have also won four world titles and one Olympics with the only defeat of the Sochi Games.

Sunday 27 January 2019 5 minutes reading time

The female 4x5 km relay that closes the stage of the World Cup in Swedish takes place following, at least for the fight for the first step of the podium, a script already written. It imposes Norway that meets the resistance of Russia only in the two fractions in classical technique: they are, in fact, Heidi Weng and Yulia Belorukova to conquer a handful of seconds of advantage in the fraction of the launch but Therese Johaug puts things clear: a half of the match Norway I has a 10 second lead over Russia by Natalya Nepraeva, 16 over Sweden, orphaned by Stina Nilsson, who in classical technique has deployed Evelina Settlin and young Ebba Andersson who is in tandem with Finland of Mononen and Parmakoski. Astrid Jacobsen, back in good shape as shown by the return on the podium after 3 years of yesterday, gains another 6 seconds on Charlotte Kalla and Riitta-Liisa Roponen who reached and missed Anna Nechaevskaya. It puts the icing on the cake the World Cup leader Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg that stretches up to 37 seconds that on the final goal give the eleventh consecutive victory in the World Cup to Norway. For the second position Jonna Sundling has the best on the Finnish Eveliin Piippo while Elena Soboleva brings Russia I in fourth place to 1''09.1. Fifth place for Norway II and sixth position for the United States. go to complete results In the men's field, Russia breaks the streak of five victories in the World Cup of Norway, and does so with a test of excessive power by placing two teams in the first two positions. Norway, the orphan of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo who missed this stage, climbs on the third step of the podium with a gap of 36 seconds all accumulated by Hans Christer Holund in the fraction of launch made effervescent by the pace imposed by Evgeniy Belov (Russia I) and Andrey Larkov (Russia II). In the Russian home fight Alexander Bessmertnykh manages to put under Alexander Bolshunov and at the halfway mark Russia II shows with 10 seconds ahead of compatriots. Andrey Melnichenko tightens the ranks by recovering against Denis Spitsov and the match is played in the duel between Sergey Ustiugov and Artem Maltsev. Surprisingly the latter, whose highest result is the Russian title of 2018 in the 50 km, has the best and brings Russia II to the finish with 20.8 ahead of Russia I. In Holund, Toenseth, Roethe and Krueger there is nothing left but the third step of the podium at 35.8; fourth Finland, fifth Sweden I, sixth France I. Italian formation composed by Giandomenico Salvadori, Stefano Gardener, Mirco Bertolina and Claudio Muller closes in twelfth position at 4.10.5 go to complete results

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