Nordic SkiingCross-Country Skiing World Cup
This afternoon the 15 km in free technique with the chase after Falun officially closed the 2017-18 World Cup.
Sunday 18 March 2018 4 minutes reading time
In the initial beats of the race Bolshunov, who started with a 38 "margin over his opponents, increased his advantage by a few seconds. In the meantime, the pursuer group has gradually become more active, in the intermediate set at km 3.75, seven athletes have passed through, including Pellegrino and De Fabiani, driven by a perky Sundby.
With the passing of the km the Russian has built a margin of absolute safety that allowed him to conquer easily win the mini tour of Falun. Soon the pursuers have raised the white flag and the pace not at all supported allowed other athletes to re-enter the podium. To the group comprising the two blue have joined several athletes, among which also Giandomenico Salvadori.
The fight for the podium came on 2.5 km from the finish line, when Holund and Sundby tried the stretch, putting the group in single file. At the end of the most demanding ascent, only the Cologna, Harvey, Vylegzhanin and Roethe remained on the queues of the two Norge. On the last bumps the Swiss tried to detach his opponents but in the end everything was resolved in the sprint, clearly won by the Canadian. Third place instead for Cologna that preceded Sundby 4th and Vylegzhanin 5th, all these athletes have closed to over 45 "from Bolshunov.
Good race by the Blues, De Fabiani finished in 12th place, also entered the top 20 also Pellegrino 19th and Salvadori 20th, this last recorded the 4th time of the day, preceded only by Harvey 1 ° , Holund 2nd and Vylegzhanin 3rd, missing the first career podium in the World Cup for only 4 ".
Johannes Klæbo, despite the 25th place, has won his first Overall World Cup, which is added to the Sprint Cup, mathematically won last week. The Norwegian has gained with 119 points of advantage against Dario Cologna, winner of the distance classification.
Here is the final ranking of Falun's mini tour!
Here the overall World Cup standings!
Here the distance ranking of the World Cup!
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Bolshunov solo wins the mini tour of Falun, to Kl bo the World Cup
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