A Falun the first win of season Pellegrino

It arrived in Falun waiting first seasonal victory Federico Pellegrino. The Aosta Valley was imposed in to today's skating sprint Norwegian Emil and Sindre Iversen BjÃ¸rnestad Skar, thanks to a great comeback on the final straight.

Saturday 28 January 2017 4 minutes reading time

The success had seemed almost compromised the entrance to the stadium, where Pellegrino, got stuck in the middle phase of the final, was presented to fifth. The last tooth, the holder of the specialty cup has tried to change pace, but has found little space and was forced to take the last two right-angle bends with a very external trajectory. At the entrance on the final straight, the blue was still third. At that point, however, came out, perhaps for the first time this year, the Pilgrim of last season, already glimpsed today in the two convincing successes of previous rounds. The last to surrender was Iversen, bent at the end to just 6 hundredths of a second. In third place closed Skar, who thus followed the victory of Dobbiaco. They are not able to give the podium to the Swedish public Oskar Svensson and Teodor Peterson, fourth and sixth respectively. In the middle Johannes HÃ¸sflot KlÃ¦bo, author of the best time in qualifying and very brilliant in the first two afternoon shifts. Key in the overall World Cup, it must be reported the surprising elimination in the quarterfinals of Sergey Ustiugov. The closest rival of Martin Johnsrud Sundby has not taken advantage of the absence of the points leader, being ousted by Peterson and Lucas Chanavat in a battery too slow to make room for the repechage. This reduces to only 20 points the gap between the two, even well-lengths 237 (against 981 in 1218). Staccatissimi all others, beginning with Matti Heikkinen (741), Alex Harvey (694) and Marcus Hellner (648). Today's victory is to Pellegrino also the peak of the sprint standings specialties. Blue leads the ranking with 259 points, 39 more than Skar and 57 in more than Ustiugov. MALE SPRINT TL FALUN - FINAL 1. Federico PELLEGRINO (ITA) 2: 45.77 2. Emil IVERSEN (NOR) +0.06 3. Sindre BjÃ¸rnestad SKAR (NOR) +0.47 4. Oskar Svensson (SWE) +0.50 5. Johannes HÃ¸sflot KLAEBO (NOR) +1.32 6. Teodor Peterson (SWE) +2.08