Klaebo and Oestberg won the Tour de Ski for the first time

Francesco De Fabiani closes in ninth position his Tour de Ski where he collected two podiums.

Sunday 6 January 2019 8 minutes reading time

Controversial and controversial, often at the base of the sacrifices of an athlete to insert the Tour in its calendar or withdrawals during the work, as every year the terrible rise of Cermis puts the exclamation mark at the end of the start of the year solar. In the men's field, the ascent seals the Norwegian revenge after a week in which only Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has kept the Nordic colors high before the assault of a patrol of Russian fighters. The twenty-two-year-old Trondheim has decided to participate for the first time in the Tour de Ski, is often, at least from Oberstdorf on, seemed on the verge of abandoning the company and eventually triumphed after suffering probably never experienced on the hairpin bends that lead to finish line. At the end with the nails and with the teeth he managed to keep 17 seconds ahead of Sergey Ustiugov who in the ascent recovered him more than a minute proving himself the only Russian able to maintain at least the positions acquired and to worry the champion of Trondheim. Alexander Bolshunov was not able to defend himself in the same way that at the start he had a little treasure of one minute and 20 seconds to defend to stay on the podium. The Norwegians Simen Hegstad Krueger and Sjur Roethe, authors respectively of the second and of the first time trial, first reach and jump in the kilometers of approach to the final climb Francesco De Fabiani then rise without rushing to pounce on the twenty-three Russian that is reached and jumped in last very hard kilometer. Krueger is third at 48.8 from the winning compatriot, Roethe is fourth at 1.05.3; in Bolshunov only fifth position remains at 1.26.6, while another Russian comes from behind, Andrey Melnichenko, sixth at 1.37.1. Francesco De Fabiani, ninth at 2.18.5, is also overtaken by Martin Johnsrud Sundby (2.04.3) and Denis Spitsov (2.05.9). In the first eight positions four Norwegians and four Russians, the 'blue repeats the ninth position of 2016 and is the first to break the duopoly that has dominated this edition. Behind him again a Russian, Andrey Larkov (2.34.6) and two Norwegians, Didrik Toenseth (2.39.0) and Hans Christer Holund (2.47.1). Stefano Gardener and Giandomenico Salvadori arrive together with the twenty-eight-year-old carabiniere from Trento thirty-fourth at 9.05.7 am and the twenty-six-year-old born in Feltre thirty-fifth, three tenths later. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo leaps to the lead of the overall World Cup standings where the second, Alexander Bolshunov is 124 points. Francesco De Fabiani is sixth. 1. KLAEBO Johannes Hoesflot (NOR) 9342. BOLSHUNOV Alexander (RUS) 8103. ROETHE Sjur (NOR) 6344. TOENSETH Didrik (NOR) 5695. USTIUGOV Sergey (RUS) 5546. DE FABIANI Francesco (ITA) 5307. HALFVARSSON Calle (SWE ) 5238. KRUEGER Simen Hegstad (NOR) 5179. SUNDBY Martin Johnsrud (NOR) 49410. IVERSEN Emil (NOR) 466 go to complete results In the women's field the victory of Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg is never questioned to the point that the Norwegian, second in 2016 and 2018, playing with 53 seconds ahead of the most immediate pursuer also makes the best time of the day to go to meet his triumph on top of the Cermis. Behind little happens. Natalia Nepryaeva, not excessively at ease when the track climbs, defends with the nails and teeth the second position that on the traguarso manages to keep for 14 seconds on the overwhelming return of the Finnish Krista Parmakoski that gnaws more than a minute after meter. Anastasia Sedova, who started 36 seconds after her compatriot Yulia Belorukova reached her and climbed her up the hill, finishing fourth in 3.53.2 from Oestberg and almost a minute ahead of her compatriot (23). Jessica Diggins tries to go to the attack to try to approach the podium from which it was distant at the start fifty seconds but confirms the sixth starting position at 5.13.5 from the winner as well as seventh Heidi Weng. The eighth place, from the eleventh starting position, is the thirty-eight year old Japanese Masako Ishida. Caterina Ganz, the blue revelation of this Tour de Ski, with the sixteenth time of the day finished at the twentieth place overall while Sara Pellegrini, arrived in a perfect condition at the appointment, managed to reach the finish line in twenty-seventh position. In the overall World Cup standings, Therese Johaug, dominator of the first part of the season, is overtaken by five cross-country skiers and gives the red bib to Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg.1. OESTBERG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) 11522. PARMAKOSKI Krista (FIN) 8833. NEPRYAEVA Natalia (RUS) 8814. BELORUKOVA Yulia (RUS) 6805. DIGGINS Jessica (USA) 6016. JOHAUG Therese (NOR) 6007. SEDOVA Anastasia (RUS) 4898. NILSSON Stina (SWE) 4669. WENG Heidi (NOR) 41410. ANDERSSON Ebba (SWE) 409 go to complete results

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