Il russo Bolshunov vince la 15 km di Falun e spaventa Klaebo

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The Russian Bolshunov wins the 15 km of Falun and scares Klaebo

In the women's 10 km in free technique comes the umpteenth victory of Therese Johaug who is unbeaten in the distance tests in season.

Sunday 17 March 2019 5 minutes reading time

Alexander Bolshunov does not give up and, after yesterday's response from Johannes Hoesflet Klaebo with the victory in the Sprint, he shortens again the distances in the overall World Cup standings by winning the last European World Cup round of the season, the 15 km in free technique with departures at Falun intervals. The Russian starts strong and is already ahead of all the opponents on the fifth kilometer where compatriot Alexey Chervotkin pays four seconds, the Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby are six. Klaebo grits his teeth and is eighth at 14 seconds. The Russian fury seems to go out in the central segment of the race when Sundby recovers while Klaebo slips down and is already thirteenth at almost a minute behind but Bolshunov does not give up in a final tug of war. Three kilometers from the finish line he has 6 seconds ahead of the Norwegian, 1000 meters later they are only more than 3 which date back to 8.9 on arrival for the fifth victory of the Russian season preceding Sundby while the third place goes to the Norwegian Didrik Toenseth ( at 17.7), fourth Sjur Roethe (32.2), fifth Andrey Larkov (41.3). Johannes Klaebo is only nineteenth at 1.22.1 also preceded, by 3 seconds, by Francesco De Fabiani eighteenth. Federico Pellegrino is thirty-eighth at 2.09.9, Stefan Zelger forty-first at 2.12.7. With only three trials of the Quebec City mini-tour that will award a maximum of 350 points (200 for the Tour winner and 50 for the individual stage winners), Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo holds only 14 points ahead of Alexander Bolshunov. Francesco De Fabiani is in eighth place In the 10 km women's championship the undisputed dominator of the season is imposed, that Therese Johaug who won all the tests distance in the season and who does not get her hands on a well-deserved general World Cup only for a regulation that overly rewards those who participate in the Tour de Ski. On the finish line the Norwegian, at the thirteenth victory of the season, precedes by 18.5 the young Swede Ebba Andersson and 30.3 the American Jessica Diggins. The Ingvild leader FLugstad Oestberg puts a serious mortgage on the crystal ball concluding in fourth place and taking advantage of the absence due to physical problems of rival Natalya Nepryaeva. The best of the Italians is Elisa Brocard, twenty-eighth at 2.01.6 while Lucia Scardoni is fiftieth at 3.13.2. In the overall World Cup standings, Ingvild Oestberg now precedes the Russian Natalya Nepryaeva by 97 points. Therese Johaug, fourth with 1060 points, has in the viewfinder the third place of the Finnish Krista Parmakoski (1115).

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