Cross Country Skiing - Lillehammer
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It & rsquo; again Johaug to establish itself in a race distance as gi & agrave; Ruka happened, but this time in free technique and with only three tenths of a strong advantage on compatriot Marit Bjoergen.
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Johaug that made the difference on the climb in this track, managing to recover 4/2 of advantage that the fellow had acquired over her in the first 900 meters of the race. For her, it is the ninth victory in the World Cup and the twenty-third complete, and launches an important message both to keep in contention for the crystal bowl that for the final victory of & rsquo; multistage event in Lillehammer.
As said second & egrave; Marit Bjoergen junta, which thanks to this second place in the general classification maintains the primacy of this test multistage. Behind her is still a long Norway, with Heidi Weng third, going to be the & rsquo; yet another podium Norwegian. Behind them the Swedish Charlotte Kalla, who came fourth and only athlete in the Norwegian top seven. In fact behind the Kalla, continues l & rsquo; hegemony Norwegian with fifth place Ragnhild Haga, the sixth of Martine Ek Hagen and seventh Ingvild Fulgstad Oestberg.
Among the surprises in negative c & rsquo; & egrave; Justyna Kowalczyk still, uncomfortable with the free technique and in blatant delay condition reached only twenty-seventh. With her went wrong Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová, still outside the top 30, Astrid Jacobsen and Anne Kylloenen, only forty-eighth.
Very bad even the Italian, even in this race with no all & rsquo; inside of the points: & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp Ilaria Debertolis; only fifty-best among them. Even more & ugrave; away with all the other & nbsp; Virginia De Martin Topranin fifty-sixth, & nbsp; & nbsp Marina; Piller seventy, seventy-fifth Francesca Baudin, Elisa & nbsp; Brocard ottantesimaa, Greta Laurent ottantanovesima and Gaia Vuerich & nbsp; ninety-first.
5 KM TL FEMALE LILLEHAMMER & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Therese Johaug (NOR) 12: 33.7 2. BJ & Ø RGEN Marit (NOR) +0.3 3. WENG Heidi (NOR) +10.9 4. KALLA Charlotte (SWE) +11.3 5. HAGA Ragnhild (NOR) +22.7
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Cross Country Skiing - Lillehammer
Huge victory to the wire of Therese Johaug 5km in Lillehammer
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