Rientro in grande stile per Therese Johaug

Nordic Skiing

Johaug wins the 10 km of Davos. First victory of the Russian Belov

In the women's race Elisa Brocard won the tenth position for the first time in her career. Seventh Francesco De Fabiani.

Sunday 16 December 2018 5 minutes reading time

In the last round of the Women's Cross-Country Ski World Cup before the Tour de Ski comes the fifth win of the season (six if you also consider the general classification of the Lillehammer mini-tour) of Therese Johaug who left to others only the Sprints encountered up to now in the calendar. A novelty, if such can be considered, is the fact that on the 10 kilometers in skating of Davos the rest of the world seemed closer to the 30 year old Norwegian. The compatriot Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg is second at 12 "1, the Finnish Krista Parmakoski, who with the weeks is growing by hits, is third at 19 seconds. The 21-year-old Swede Ebba Andersson is confirmed to a very high level, accusing a gap from Johaug of 38.2 and precedes the Americans Jessica Diggins (+1.01.1) and Rosie Brennan (+1.04.9). And '' seventh the 'Austrian Teresa Stadlober (1.09.3), eighth the first of the Russian Anastasia Sedova (1.11.4) that precedes the compatriot Natalia Nepryaeva (1.17.4). The 'blue Elisa Brocard gets the best performance of his career in a single race finishing in tenth position at 1''22 ", the thirty-four Valdostan before today had never done better than the fourteenth time obtained in 2017 on the Cermis. points the other blue: 37. Lucia Scardoni, 41. Ilaria Debertolis, 50. Anna Comarella, 54. Sara Pellegrini. In the overall World Cup standings, Therese Johaug leads with 600 points against 451 of her compatriot Oestberg and 409 for Sweden's Ebba Andersson. Go to complete results On the men's 15 km, absent the leader of the World Cup standings Aleksandr Bolshunov, the victory, and is the first in his career, goes to another Russian; the twenty-seven year old Evgeniy Belov is forced to mock for only 9 tenths of a second the French Maurice Manificat who fails to reach the goal of the tenth Cup win. In a tight race, the third step of the podium goes to the Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby who closes at 4.5 from the winner and precedes the Russian Denis Spitsov (+7.5) and compatriot Chris Andre Jespersen (+10.6). The sixth place, 17 seconds from the winner, goes to the transalpine Jean Marc Gaillard while Francesco De Fabiani with a comeback race centers the seventh position 21.3. Not far from the area are the other Azzurri Stefano Gardener, Giandomenico Salvadori and Mirco Bertolina, respectively 36th, 38th and 39th, while Pellegrino finished 50th and Fanton 60th. Bolshunov maintains the yellow pectoral leader of the World Cup standings with 367 points and precedes the Norwegians Sjur Roethe (329) and Emil Iversen (328). go to complete results

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