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They go Into Kikkan Randall among women and among men Petter Northug successes in the prologue of the Tour de Ski in Oberhof.
Saturday 29 December 2012 3 minutes reading time
Into The U.S. had racked up six wins so far in the World Cup all in the sprint freestyle, three of them this year, and over a distance slightly longer, 3.1 km, shows his great form and captures its first partial success in a stage race cross-country skiing beating 4 "4 Sweden's Charlotte Kalla, returning after a month of absence after missing the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo and the trip North American, and 4" on 7 Polish Justyna Kowalczyk, the great favorite of the Tour de Ski women. Germany's fourth Denise Herrmann almost ten seconds, the fifth Finnish Riitta-Liisa Roponen and sixth, incredibly enough, the first orphan Norwegian Marit Bjørgen, Astrid Jacobsen.
Into Northug instead keeps the top honor for the third time Norway won the prologue in Oberhof, this year over a distance of 4 km skating, his ninth stage victory in the Tour de Ski and twelfth in total, beating by 6 " 1 his great enemy, the Swede Marcus Hellner, and 7 "2 Russian Aleksandr Legkov, fourth at 10" 1 the winner of the last two Tour de Ski, the Swiss Dario Cologna in front of another Russian Ilia Chernousov, and the Canadian Alex Harvey. Both among men than among women receiving the first three respectively 15, 10 and 5 seconds rebate, another advantage over the other in view of the evidence chase classic of tomorrow.
Into Regarding home Italy, among men eleventh to fourteenth David Hofer and for the eternal Giorgio Di Centa, also within thirty Roland Clara, seventeenth. Among women, the young twenty-third Debora Agreiter, all over the place fortieth other.
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