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At Lake di Tesero, the Norwegian Oestberg still dominates in the women's field. Best result in career of Caterina Ganz, fifteenth
Saturday 5 January 2019 9 minutes reading time
And ', as usual in Val di Fiemme, the' last episode of the Tour de Ski with the 15km starting line in today's classic technique and the traditional Cermis climb tomorrow. Forty-eight hours ago in Oberstdorf all ended up the first experience of the Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Tour and instead the young champion is there, ready to defend his leader's pectoral from the attack of the Russian squad to his chase in the general classification . The first to put pressure on the capoclassification is Sergey Ustiugov, after an attempt to escape the Swedish Viktor Thorn lasted the space of a lap and held by the group to no more than 10 seconds. The 26-year-old Russian, who at the start paid only 5.4 seconds to Klaebo in the overall standings, went to the attack to conquer the first intermediate lap with rebates, he had to sell to the Norwegian who collects another 5 seconds in the overall standings while Ustiugov end of the stage will pay 42 seconds that with the game of rebates become about a minute.
In a compact ranks race, at least for the twenty-twenty-five best, the Russian baton is taken by Alexander Bolshunov who alternately stands in the garden of his house. In the last lap the Olympic Silver in the 50 km in classical technique breaks the delay and only six cross-country skiers can follow him: besides the omnipresent Klaebo, the three compatriots Larkov, Vylegzhanin and Sobakarev, the Norwegian Holund and Francesco De Fabiani that in the previous kilometers he let vent (and get tired) the hunters of rebates and the sprinters remaining sly in position of 'waiting and control committing only around the tenth kilometer to close a hole opened by Sobakarev. At the approach of the last climb the Russian quartet tries to impose its presence on the head but De Fabiani places his attack when the ground begins to rise. The Russians give up, the Valdostano crosses in first position and only Klaebo manages to keep the trail. In the final straight the Norwegian joins the Norwegian but puts all his experience as a sprinter winning the fourth victory in this Tour de Ski while Francesco De Fabiani is second to 6 tenths. Behind them four Russians with Bolshunov third to 2.6, fourth Andrey Larkov to 3.4, fifth Vylegzhanin to 4.6, sixth Andrey Sobakarev to 6.3. The Norwegian Holund is seventh at 13.0, while Denis Spitsov is back in eighth place at 27.1, ahead of Briton Andrew Musgrave and Martin Johnsrud Sundby. Sixth Russian in the first eleven position, Andrey Melnichenko eleventh to 31.6.
Dietmar Noeckler closes in the area, twenty-eight minutes to about two minutes from the winner; Giandomenico Salvadori is thirty-sixth at 2.52.3, Stefano Gardener is thirty-eighth at 3.26.7.
The general classification of the Tour de Ski:
1 KLAEBO Johannes Hoesflot NOR 2: 35: 08.1 2 USTIUGOV Sergey RUS +1: 20.4 3 BOLSHUNOV Alexander RUS +1: 43.8 4 DE FABIANI Francesco ITA +2: 40.5 5 KRUEGER Simen Hegstad NOR +3: 06.8 6 ROETHE Sjur NOR +3 : 24.6 7 SUNDBY Martin Johnsrud NOR +3: 27.0 8 TOENSETH Didrik NOR +3: 27.5 9 MELNICHENKO Andrey RUS +3: 27.8 10 SPITSOV Denis RUS +3: 28.9 30 NOECKLER Dietmar ENG +7: 00.3 33 SALVADORI Giandomenico ITA +7: 50.1 37 GARDENER Stefano ITA +9: 00.4
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In the women's field, the Mass Start on the 10 km of Lago di Tesero still sees the undisputed dominance of the Norwegian Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg, the increasingly undisputed leader of this edition of the Tour de Ski. Halfway through the race it is already clear that this line-up in the women's line is also a competition where natural selection operates in place of the tactics of the men's trials. It is only six to five kilometers to be able to advance podium expectations: Oestberg, Heidi Weng, the Russian Neprayeva, Sedova and Belorukova and the Finnish Parmakoski. In the third lap Oestberg breaks the delay and conquers that ten seconds of advantage that will keep until the finish line while yielding Heidi Weng and struggling to remain attached to the first group of pursuers Yulia Belorukova. which comes off definitively at the beginning of the last lap. Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg is imposed with 10 seconds ahead of Natalia Nepryaeva who precedes by 8 tenths compatriot Anastasia Sedova while Krista Parmakoski is fourth to 12.5. Yulia Belorukova who pulled the oars in the boat is fifth at 39.7 while Heidi Weng closes in sixth place 1.10.0, preceding just 9 seconds Jessica Diggins.Caterina Ganz, fighting until the last lap for a position in the top ten, gets the best result in the World Cup career with fifteenth place at 1''52 "from the winner, with points also Sara Pellegrini, thirtieth at 4.10.9.
The Tour de Ski standings after the sixth stage
1 OESTBERG Ingvild Flugstad NOR 1: 55: 16.2 2 NEPRYAEVA Natalia RUS +53.4 3 PARMAKOSKI Krista FIN +2: 13.1 2: 38.0 4 BELORUKOVA Yulia RUS +2: 27.4 2: 48.6 5 SEDOVA Anastasia RUS +3: 03.6 6 DIGGINS Jessica USA +3: 07.9 7 WENG Heidi NOR +4: 50.7 8 WENG Udnes fight NOR +6: 17.1 9 SLIND Kari Oeyre NOR +6: 25.1 10 LAMPIC Anamarija SLO +7: 20.4
23 GANZ Caterina ITA +9: 24.0 29 PILGRIMS Sara ITA +12: 41.3
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