Nordic SkiingCross country skiing
Stina Nilsson is getting closer to the first World Cup in the specialty, while Johannes Klaebo conquers, first in history, three Sprint cups and becomes, with 17 victories, the most successful man in the fast race format.
Saturday 16 March 2019 6 minutes reading time
Falun brings in snow more than spring that is quickly destroyed by the pistons of the Sprint bison of the Free Technique, descents and curves become very treacherous, falls and carambola but the most anticipated protagonists come out unscathed. Johannes Hoesflet Klaebo, best time in qualifying, has no problems in the quarter-finals while in the semifinals with a comeback sprint risks the flush crossing of the barriers that separate the stand from the track and is only third preceded by Federico Pellegrino, second half in the morning , and from compatriot Sindre Skar and must wait for the times of the second semifinal where Emil Iversen regulates Brandsdal while a positive Francesco De Fabiani has to settle for third position but fails to undermine the World Cup leader from the seat reserved for the lucky loser where he also sits the Swedish Bergstroem.
The final, with all the necessary precautions to avoid falling into the traps of snow and the path, becomes a game of chess. The six finalists before the final momentum are also allowed a pause in the memory cycling surplace. First the Swedish kamikaze Bergstroem, Federico Pellegrino seems to be in an excellent position for the final straight while Klaebo is, as in the semifinals, in the rear. The Norwegian, however, finds the same pass and wins almost easily while the second position goes to Emil Iversen and the third step of the podium to Sindre Skar, Federico Pellegrino who pays something in the final is fourth and precedes Bergstroem and Brandsal. While Klaebo puts the icing on the cake on his undisputed role as the best sprinter in history, Norway wins a trio on the podium that was missing in the specialty since February 20, 2016 when Lahti Emil Iversen, the only point of contact in three years that seem like two eras if it is true that in Sprints time is measured before Klaebo and after Klaebo, it preceded Finn Krogh and Petter Northug.
At home Italy, said of the fourth place of Federico Pellegrino and of the seventh of Francesco De Fabiani, points also arrive for Stefan Zelger, out in the quarterfinals with the sixth place in the battery of Pellegrino and twenty-ninth in the order of arrival.
In the overall World Cup standings, Johannes Klaebo stretches over Russian Alexander Bolshunov, now fifth in the Pellegrino semi-final, and his lead now rises to 102 points.
In the women's field, on the other hand, Ingvild Oestberg responds on her own to the attack on her leadership that in the week Drammen had brought her the Russian Natalya Nepryaeva who had brought herself to only 2 points. The Russian misses the qualification obtaining only the 42nd place while the Norwegian for the second time this season manages to enter a final in the Sprint, albeit from a lucky loser, and brings home precious points, they are now 47, to defend in Quebec City getting fifth place. It is imposed, and it is the third time this season, Stina Nilsson who now lacks only the official skills to get her hands on her first World Cup specialty. Second place for the Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla and third place for the Swedish Maja Dahlqvist for a podium for the seasonal gotha of the specialty. Ida Ingemarsdotter is fourth, fifth Oestberg, sixth the Slovenian Lampic.
The best of the Italians was Greta Laurent, who passed the timed 11th time and then finished 27th after falling to the quarterfinals. Out in qualifying Elisa Brocard, thirty-eighth, and Lucia Scardoni, fifty-fifth.
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