Nordic SkiingCross country skiing
In the women's field Stina Nilsson wins the mini-tour of the finals and Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg gets her hands on her first crystal ball.
Sunday 24 March 2019 6 minutes reading time
With the Women's World Cup still open only in numbers, all the excitement of the last stage, a Pursuit with postings in the standings, of the three days that end the cross-country season in Quebec City is contained in the men's event where a duel was expected between Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Alexander Bolshunov and the duel lasted until the last few meters. The Russian, to whom the victory would have been enough to bring the crystal ball back to Moscow after 28 years, respects the script. Part throws in the rest and, carrying with him, the idol of the house Alex Harvey in 8 kilometers manages to recover the 52 seconds that separated him from the Norwegian who does not give up and leaves Bolshunov with the task of dictating the rhythm position of the group. The Russian tries to open that gap that would allow him to hope but he can't get the adventure companions off while on the last climb an imperious step brings Klaebo to conquer not only the World Cup but also the victory in the Quebec mini-tour City. Alex Harvey, enfant du pays at the last race in his career climbs, like yesterday, to the podium, taking second place while he is third Bolshunov. Behind them the sprint of the group of the most immediate followers at 1''13 "is won by Francesco De Fabiani who closes the season with an excellent mini-tour and precedes Emil Iversen and Federico Pellegrino sixth.
Alex Harvey takes the satisfaction out of getting the best time of day ahead of Bolshunov and the American Simeon Hamilton. Francesco De Fabiani gets the sixth time, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo the eleventh, Federico Pellegrino thirteenth.
In the final World Cup standings, Klaebo puts his hands on the second general career crystal ball with 1717 points, 100 points ahead of Alexander Bolshunov. Third is the Norwegian Sjur Roethe at 974; Francesco De Fabiani closes the season in seventh place and precedes Federico Pellegrino, eighth. They were ten years, when Pietro Piller Cottrer closed in fourth place and Giorgio Di Centa eighth that Italy did not have two cross-country skiers in the top 10 positions of the general classification.
There was still little to write in the women's field where Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg's ranking advantage over Natalia Neprayeva was so great that he didn't expect any surprises; the only room was in the fight for third place overall between Krista Parmakoski and Therese Johaug, the great protagonist of the season penalized by the decision to give up the Tour de Ski. After setting herself up on Friday's Sprint and yesterday's start in line, Swedish Stina Nilsson lined up the three victories on the three stages and the first affirmation in the final classification of a multi-stage competition. Behind her they run as a couple looking for their respective goals Therese Johaug and Ingvild Oestberg: Johaug closes in second position (at 12 "1) with the best time of the day while Oestberg third puts the seal on the World Cup where nothing could do Natalia Nepryaeva, sixteenth today: the Finnish Krista Parmakoski, fourth at the finish line, despite the second time of the day fails to maintain third place in the overall standings of the World Cup where Therese Johaug precedes her by 6 points.
Sweden managed to place six runners in the top ten of the mini-tour: in addition to the winner Nilsson, Ebba Andersson is fifth, Jonna Sundling sixth, Maja Dahlqvist eighth, Frida Karlsson ninth, Charlotte Kalla tenth. The best Italian was Elisa Brocard, who started from the 24th and maintained her position with a delay of 2'53 "3 from Nilsson, after a group sprint. 30th Anna Comarella, at 3''52" 7, a little further off Lucia Scardoni, (35.) and Caterina Ganz (38.).
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