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The Norwegian gets the forty-fourth victory of his career in the 10 km free technique of Lillehammer.
Saturday 1 December 2018 5 minutes reading time
Therese Johaug's hunger has not subsided after the two years of disqualification due to violation of the anti-doping rules: won last week the 10 km classic Ruka technique, the Norwegian has repeated today in the second stage of the Lillehammer mini-tour , a 10 km free technique. To question the victory was only the emerging Swedish Ebba Andersson; the twenty-one, already third for the first podium in career at Ruka, accuses the gap of less than 10 seconds. Sweden is still big with Charlotte Kalla's third place 16 seconds behind Johaug who brings the Swedish podiums in this part of the World Cup to eight in four races. The Norwegian Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg is fourth at 35 seconds and precedes the Finnish Krista Parmakoski (+43.5) and Ragnhild Haga (+55.9) .Before the chase test in the classic technique of tomorrow Charlotte Kalla leads the ranking of the Lillehammer mini-tour with an advantage of only 2.5 on Therese Johaug. Ebba Andersson will start in third place at 14.3 and will be followed by Oestberg (+19.8) and the pair formed by Haga and Parmakoski at 38 seconds. There were no blue in the race: the only one to leave for Norway, Greta Laurent, did not participate after the fourteenth place in the Sprint on Friday.In the men's field, in the 15 km always in free technique, one-two Norwegian men who in this early season have shown the best state of form, the result of a preparation accelerated to conquer the place in the World Cup team. The winner of the 50 km of Holmenkollen of 2015 is imposed, Sjur Roethe who precedes by 6 seconds the compatriot Didrik Toenseth. Third place at 28 seconds for Denis Spitsov, one of the representatives of the arrembante new Russian generation that in the same race format already boasts the Bronze of PyeongChang. At the debut season of the World Cup, the Swiss Dario Cologna is fourth at 38.3 and precedes the Russian Andrey Melnichenko (+40.6), the British Musgrave (+45.2) and the four Norwegians Iversen, Krueger, Holund and Sundby in the handkerchief of 4 seconds. The dominator of Ruka, Alexander Bolshunov only closes in nineteenth position just ahead of the Norwegian Klaebo twenty-third. He finishes again in the points like Ruka Francesco De Fabiani, who closes twenty-ninth at 1''49 "4 d Roethe, further away Giandomenico Salvadori, Federico Pellegrino, Maicol Rastelli and Dietmar Noeckler.
In the provisional standings of the Lillehammer mini-tour, today's winner Sjur Roethe will start tomorrow with an advantage of less than two seconds on Didrik Toenseth. At 11.5 seconds Emil Iversen while the first of the non-Norwegian, at 32.7, will be Spitsov. Martin Johnsrud Lundby is sixth at 43 seconds and precedes the compatriot Krueger and Dario Cologna in the space of 3 seconds. Francesco De Fabiani is twenty-eighth at 1'48 "3.
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