Gjerdalen and Norgren win the 43rd Marcialonga

Scandinavian speak the 43rd edition of the Marcialonga. In fact impose the Norwegian Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Sweden's Britta Johansson Norgren.

Sunday 31 January 2016 8 minutes reading time

Almost 8000 competitors who showed up this morning at the start of Moena. First as women at 7.50, then the men at 8.00 and gradually all other categories up at 9.05 hours. The conditions of the snowpack, impeccably prepared by the organizing committee led by President Angelo Corradini, have allowed an extremely fast race in the first part. The first to break through the inertia & egrave; John Kristian Dahl after only two kilometers, but in close proximity & agrave; the passage in Canazei & egrave; Bruno Debertolis who earns the head of the group of twenty athletes. The pace becomes more & ugrave; slow to return to Moena, then Predazzo, after about 45 kilometers, the favorite of the eve Petter Eliassen takes command of the operations. The men's race you decide to memorize options in close proximity & agrave; dell & rsquo; last climb when Anders Aukland comes off, leaving the way to the three compatriots Gjerdalen, Eliassen and Berdal. At 600 meters from the finish l & rsquo; Gjerdalen decisive stretch, arriving triumphantly between two of enthusiastic crowds. For him & egrave; the second victory at Marcialonga after that of & rsquo; last year: & ldquo; I am leaving early with the expected levels, we were all on the edge, I dared and & egrave; It went well. I have to thank all the community & agrave; Valleys. There & rsquo; was snow around us, but the track was perfect & rdquo ;. Best Italian Bruno Debertolis twentieth. The women's race comes alive after 8.6 km, when it attacks Seraina Boner. The resist in a few, with Katerina Smutna that in Predazzo take the situation in hand remained alone in the lead. A Lake Tesero returns on her Britta Johansson Norgren, and the two will act jointly to fight for the victory in the sprint, with the Swede who submits its best qualities of sprinter: & ldquo; I am very tired. He has completed the & rsquo; last stretch of the race with Katerina & egrave; It was very important. I stayed with her until the end. At the finish line I took out the last bit of energy available. I turned around and in an instant I realized d & rsquo; winning: an incredible joy & rdquo ;. Marcialonga Light, 45 km with arrival in Predazzo, & egrave; He was instead won by Russian Sergey Spirin and trevisana Lisa Bolzan. The sunny day greeted the 8000 & ldquo; & rdquo ;, bison all extremely satisfied also from the track, 70 km of artificial snow created almost miraculously by the organizers. In this sense are significant words Gjerdalen: & ldquo; I think the Marcialonga is the most & ugrave competition; nice to deal with, of course after the Olympics, but as a single race and single location, with start and finish in the wonderful sights and stunning waterfall to give us a hard time, & egrave; the number one. Vasaloppet & egrave also; very impressive, but the Marcialonga passes for countries, involving athletes, & egrave; something different, special. The track was beautiful, unthinkable thing they managed to do the organizers & rdquo ;. These classifications of today's tests. Marcialonga 70 km male 1. Gjerdalen Tord Asle Nor 02: 49: 49: 1 2. Petter Eliassen Nor 02: 49: 54: 4 3. Hoelgaard Stian Nor 02: 49: 54: 5 4. Tore Berdal Bjoerseth Nor 02:49 : 56: 1 5. Anders Aukland Nor 02: 50: 11: 5 6. Daniel Richardsson Swe 02: 50: 13: 3 7. Callesen Christoffer Nor 02: 50: 15: 3 8. Morten Eide Pedersen Nor 02:50: 16: 4 9. Bystroem Fredrik Swe 02: 50: 32: 7 10. Nygaard Andreas Nor 02: 50: 49: 7 Marcialonga 70 km female 1. Britta Johansson Norgren Swe 3: 13:50: 7 2. Smutna Katerina Aut 3: 13:52: 1 3. On Seraina Boner 3: 17:26: 1 4. Sara Lindborg Swe 3: 20:47: 8 5. Lindstedt Emilia Swe 3: 20:50: 2 6. Justyna Kowalczyk Pol 3: 21:33: 2 7. Slind Astrid Oyre Nor 3: 23:14: 3 8. Ishida Masako Jpn 3: 24.25: 4 9. Loefstroem Annika Swe 3: 25.24: 7 10. Dabudyk Aurelie between 3: 28.11: 7 Marcialonga Light 45 km male 1. Sergey Spirin Rus 02: 01: 31: 2 2. Barannikov Aleksey Rus 02: 01: 32: 9 3. Betriu Sadurni Spa 02: 03: 08: 0 4. Gismondi Ita Matthew 02:08: 31: 5 5. Stefan Lanzinger Ita 02: 24: 07: 4 6. Ripamonti Simone Ita 02: 28: 16: 9 7. Bianchini Alessandro Ita 02: 32: 34: 4 8. Gorda Alessandro Ita 02:33:43: 9 9. Carlo Fazzini Ita 02: 35: 50: 2 10. Calvo Marco Ita 02: 44: 52: 5 Marcialonga Light 45 km female 1. Bolzan Lisa Eng 2: 40.01: 8 2. Gianola Elisa Eng 2: 42.19: 6 3. Da Ros Alessandra Ita 2: 48.27: 6 4. Colnaghi Calissoni Laura Eng 2: 53.35: 2 5. Polakova KÃ¡lalovÃ¡ Tereza Cze 2: 56.54: 0 6. Bolzan Anna Ita 2: 58.06: 3 7. Ferreux Turpain Coralie Among 3: 11:53: 3 8. Jonsson Lovisa Swe & nbsp; 3: 14/1: 7 9. Sivertsson Irene Swe & nbsp; 3: 15:21: 2 10. Pongiluppi Maria Ita 3: 24.31: 3 More information on the site www.marcialonga.com & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

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