Nordic SkiingCross country skiing
Federico Pellegrino was disqualified for a foul on Gros in the quarterfinals where he had imposed after getting the best time in qualifying.
Saturday 12 January 2019 6 minutes reading time
The wastes of the Tour de Ski do not allow the Norwegians Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Emil Iversen, which Cermis had not even approached, and the Russians Ustiugov and Bolshunov to line up at the starting point of the traditional Sprint on the banks of the Elbe river in Dresden . The conditions for a day favorable to Federico Pellegrino, who last year here was imposed, there are all and the Valle d'Aosta detaches the best qualifying time and finds himself, on the narrow city track, in a quarter-final nervous with the Norwegian Paal Golberg , the Russians Krasnov and Terentev, the French Baptiste Gros and the German Sebastian Eisenlauer. Pellegrino, in the decisive lap goes wide in the downward curve and is forced to have to go back to positions. Square a shot of power jumps all but at the last obstacle his stick goes between the legs of Baptiste Gros that is definitely damaged. The 'blue is imposed and only a few tens of minutes comes the news of his disqualification; it will be known later that the jury was debated between a yellow card and the direct disqualification and only by majority was the decision. Race finished for him and thirtieth final position.
The French team, among the few arrived in Dresden to complete, square five cross-countryists in the semifinals and three, Richard Jouve, Lucas Chanavat and Baptiste Gros in the final where they face the second Norwegian lines Sindre Skar and Erik Valnes and the Russian Gleb Retivykh. It is imposed, and is the second win in the career after the Sprint of Dobbiaco two years ago, the twenty-six Sindre Bjoernestad Skar that precedes Retivykh and the 22-year-old Norwegian Erik Valnes who climbs for the first time on the podium at the fourth round of the World Cup career. Only cross-country regrets with the fourth place of Jouve, the fifth of Chanavat and the sixth of Gros.
Among the other blues at the start, the young Michael Helleweger has almost qualified, closing thirty-first. Didi Noeckler ranked thirty-sixth, forty-first and forty-second Stefan Zelger and Enrico Nizzi.
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In the women's field with Norway and Russia who leave home the veterans of Cermis and Maiken Caspersen Falla confirming its not optimal state of form coming out in the semifinals we see the triumph of the Swedish team. There are six subjects of the three crowns to access the semi-finals and three in the final: Maja Dahlqvist, Jonna Sundling and Stina Nilsson. In the decisive act they find themselves crossing the narrow skis with the American Sophie Caldwell, the Slovenian Alenka Cebasek and the Swiss Nadine Faehndrich. The Swedes closed the race in a grand parade with the victory of Stina Nilsson who reaches four first places in the season and precedes Maja Dahlqvist while the photo finish Jonna Sundling burns for the third step of the podium Swiss Faehndrich. Fifth place for Sophie Caldwell, sixth for Alenka Cebasek.
Greta Laurent and Lucia Scardoni reach the quarterfinals where they stop their race. The Aosta Valley closes in third place his battery but the chronometric feedback does not allow her to return between the two lucky loser: for her the thirteenth final place. It is twenty-eighth instead, Lucia Scardoni who finished the quarter-final won by Stina Nilsson in sixth place.
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