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Stina Nilsson won the photo finish the Sprint Free technical QUEB & eacute; c City, Maiken Caspersen Falla comes second and is mathematically ensures the bowl of Specialties & agrave ;.
Friday 4 March 2016 5 minutes reading time
The third leg of the Ski Tours Canada is extremely linear reveals, so that in the final reach the top six of the league specialty & agrave ;. Here & egrave; Stina Nilsson who demonstrates the most & ugrave; strong today, competing in a head race right from & rsquo; beginning and managing to resist the Maiken Caspersen Falla comeback on the final straight. Per Nilsson & egrave; This win number three all-inclusive is the season of his career, a result that seals the one in effect & egrave; It was l & rsquo; year of his final explosion.
Falla has to settle for second place, breaking the streak of 4 consecutive victories in top-level Sprint races. The Norwegian would be enough ten meters in pi & ugrave; to complete the comeback and establish itself even today. Third & egrave; instead of the usual Heidi Weng, who grabs the podium number 48 (with one win) career, coming into the final also Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG fourth, fifth and Astrid Jacobsen IDA INGEMARSDOTTER sixth.
In light of today's result, Maiken Caspersen Falla is mathematically assures his first bowl of Specialties & agrave ;. He deserved result for a girl & egrave; set 7 times out of 11, & egrave; come once a second and in a & rsquo; occasion was not at the start. Now for the Falla & rsquo; goal will & agrave; the world title in Lahti, which would allow it to become the second woman after Marit Bj ø rgen, and fourth distance runner ever also including Tor Arne Hetland and Ola Vigen Hattestad, to win bowl of Specialties & agrave ;, Olympic gold and World Gold in the Sprint.
Still theoretically instead open the Overall World Cup. Therese Johaug fact is eliminated in battery, still scraping together 16 points in what & egrave; the format of her less suitable. Norwegian driving with 2097 points against 1890 & Ø StBerG and the 1686 Weng, when at stake there are still 650.
In the ranking of the Ski Tours Canada, however, Weng takes the red leader bib. The 24 year old has a handful of seconds over Johaug, therefore tomorrow partir & agrave; first in & rsquo; chase concluder & agrave; the first part of this multistage competition this season. The Norwegian domain continues with the third place of Falla, the fourth and fifth of Jacobsen & Ø StBerG.
SPRINT TL FEMALE QUEBEC CITY & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Maiken Caspersen FALLA (NOR) 2. Stina Nilsson (SWE) 3. WENG Heidi (NOR) 4 & Ø StBerG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) 5. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) 6. INGEMARSDOTTER Ida (SWE)
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The Ski Tours Canada proceed & agrave; tomorrow with the fourth stage, always held in QUEB & eacute; c City. The girls will be engaged in a chase of 10 km in skating starting dictated by detachments accrued in the first three fractions.
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