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Poker Federico Pellegrino, who also won the sprint free technique Planica rewriting the history of skiing and Italian male world. On the podium with him the French Baptiste Gros and Richard Jouve.
Saturday 16 January 2016 5 minutes reading time
For the fourth time this season, Pellegrino proves to be grown tactically, winning with ease in the difficult battery of his choice and finishing second without spending too much energy in the semifinals. The story did not end with the 25-year-Nus dominating winning cos & Igrave; win number 4 in season, a result that allows him to rewrite the history of skiing.
In the past in fact never any cross-country skier was able to win four consecutive Sprint in the same technique; the previous record of 3 belonged to the same Pellegrino in cohabitation with Jens Arne Svartedal (which she managed & Igrave; three times in classic technique) and Bj & ouml; rn Lind, also a & rsquo; he was able to won three times in skating. Pellegrino also comes at 7 victories all inclusive career, as many as Pietro Piller. In other words, now the Aosta Valley & egrave; the Italian cross-country skier who has the highest number of successes in top-level competitions.
Behind Pellegrino it is placed three Frenchmen, demonstrating once more & ugrave; to have a very competitive team sprint. According & egrave; Baptiste Gros, who equaled his best result achieved last December in Davos, third & egrave; Richard Jouve, in turn equaled the personal best result in his career, while fourth & egrave; Renaud Jay. The lot of the finalists & egrave; completed by the Russian Gleb Retivykh fifth and sixth German Sebastian Eisenlauer. Therefore, no Norwegian all''atto reaches final.
Not only Pellegrino, the Blues can indeed celebrate the best career result by Simone Urbani. The 23 year-old of Forestry is s & Igrave; eliminated in the battery, but his third place allows him to be ranked 13 & deg ;, a better position than this time last year in Rybinsk.
Nothing changes in the overall World Cup, with Sundby & ndash; today at rest & ndash; firmly in command before Krogh and Northug. In the ranking of specialty & agrave; of Sprint, however, Pellegrino takes off: l & rsquo; blue has 400 points, while second place remains Turvoll Sondre Fossli, now eighth, that & egrave; at an altitude of 204, while the third salt Gros with 176. When there are six Sprint, three skating and three alternates, the option & agrave; that the cup takes a different route from Scandinavia & egrave; increasingly & ugrave; concrete.
MALE SPRINT TL Planica & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. PELLEGRINO Federico (ITA) 2 GROS Baptiste (FRA) 3. JOUVE Richard (FRA) 4. JAY Renaud (FRA) 5. RETIVYKH Gleb (RUS) 6. EISENLAUER Sebastian (GER)
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The weekend in Planica terminer & agrave; tomorrow with the & rsquo; unique Team Sprint World Cup season. It disputer & agrave; in freestyle and qualifying will start at 9:30 am and end at 11:45.
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