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Finland I (Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Anne Kyllonen) and Norway (Eldar Rønning and Ola Vigen Hattestad) are awarded respectively the Team Sprint and Team Sprint Female Male Asiago.
Sunday 22 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The women's race was dominated by the Finnish couple, a great favorite of the eve. Aino Kaisa Saarinen thanks especially to that strength and makes the selection since its second half, and then give the decisive tug on the last lap, giving the last change to Kyllonen with a handful of seconds margin on the opposing younger teammate has no difficulty not only to manage but also to increase, so going to triumph with ten seconds of Norway I (Ingvild Flugstad Maiken Caspersen Falla and Ostberg), which has the best sprint of Germany (Katrin Zeller and Denise Herrmann) and Norway II (Kari Vikhagen Gejtnes and Celine Brun-Lie). Do you qualify for the final of the Italian couples Gaia Vuerich-Laurent Greta and Lucy Scardoni-Ilaria Debertolis
FEMALE TEAM SPRINT TC ASIAGO - FINAL STANDINGS
1. FINLAND I2. NORWAY I3. GERMANY I4. NORWAY II5. UNITED STATES
The full results
More fought the men's race, which was won in a sprint finish from Norway The best thanks to a split Ola Vigen Hattestad making mockery of Kazakhstan Alexey Poltoranin I, again beaten at the photo finish after the place of honor in the individual sprint yesterday. Maybe Poltoranin paid the effort to repair the (however small) separation caused by a falling teammate Nikolay Chebotko the end of his last lap. Third place went to Norway and Eirik II of ØysteinPettersen Brandsdal, with the latter winning the sprint for the podium mocking the two Russian teams (Panzhinskiy-Kriukov to Russia I, II Japarov-Vylegzhanin to Russia, then disqualified for violation of the technique classical). As for the women's race, none of the four pairs of blue manages to hit the final. A shame considering that it was competing in front of his home crowd, although it should be noted that this type of race is the least suited to our cross-country skiers.
TEAM SPRINT TC MALE ASIAGO - FINAL STANDINGS
1. NORWAY I2. KAZAKHSTAN I3. NORWAY II4. RUSSIA I5. SWEDEN The
The full results
The next round of the World Cup Cross Country Skiing in Nove Mesto will be the second weekend of January. Meanwhile assist'' s eighth edition of the Tour de Ski.
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Team Sprint Female Asiago (ITA)
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