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Heidi Weng manages to shake off & rsquo; label of eternal second triumph in the 10 km classic technique with mass start in Val di Fiemme. On the podium with her countrymen Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG and Therese Johaug.
Saturday 9 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
The race, like every mass start women played in recent times, sees the trio norge take off right from the start. L & rsquo; & egrave only difference; the presence with them of Krista P & auml; rm & auml; Koski, who gives only in the last two kilometers when the rest of the group & egrave; at a safe distance. The stage victory is decided in the last few hundred meters: & Ø StBerG strength to gain a few seconds on Johaug, but a perky Weng holds queues and for a good time manages to win the sprint.
Cos & Igrave ;, after 38 podiums without success, to Heidi Weng comes the long-awaited first career victory in a class race. His is still a record hard to beat: in fact behind the character that most & ugrave; He had to wait to win a race in & rsquo; whole panorama of winter sports & egrave; the biathlete Svetlana Ishmouratova, who won the & rsquo; individual Brezno Orsblie of 15 December 2005 after 21 podium finishes. In terms of cross-country skiing women, however, Vibeke Skofterud finished his career with 15 top three with no first place.
Second place for Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG, earning fifteen seconds, including rebates, Therese Johaug, and therefore partir & agrave; tomorrow with about 40 seconds ahead of his rival. It seems unlikely to be sufficient to cut the finish line first Cermis, but the conditions of the form shown in these ten days might allow this enterprise. For Johaug comes the third stage, but the demonstration that in the tests not distance & egrave; pi & ugrave; invulnerable as in December.
Krista P & auml; rm & auml; Koski retains margin with the fourth stage, while fifth place is a Charlotte Kalla who can not reach the final and override Kerttu Niskanen, sixth. The top ten also Teresa Stadlober eighth, Sadie Bjornsen ninth, tenth and especially Laura Mononen Virginia De Martin Topranin seventh.
The 28-year old in the Belluno get cos & Igrave; the best result of his career, improving & rsquo; eighth of Canmore in a race which took place in this same format in December 2012, as well as & eacute; the best finish for a & rsquo; Italian in a class race this season, proved to be extremely encouraging for the whole movement. They end up in the rear instead Lucia Scardoni fortieth and forty-second Debora Agreiter.
10 KM TC MASS START FEMALE VAL DI FIEMME & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. WENG Heidi (NOR) 29: 16.3 2. & Ø StBerG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) +0.8 3. Therese Johaug (NOR) +6.2 4. P & AUML; RM & AUML; Krista Koski (FIN) +17.4 5. KALLA Charlotte (SWE) +55.1
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As already & agrave; He said, in the general classification of the Tour de Ski & Ø StBerG earns fifteen seconds against Johaug, who then tomorrow partir & agrave; 40 seconds after the pi & ugrave; young compatriot. Having regard to its capacity & agrave; in climbing to the Alpe Cermis, the 27 year-old R ø ros remains favored, but the conditions of form shown by & Ø StBerG leave open the race. The third step of the podium & egrave; instead now safely in the hands of Weng.
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Tomorrow the grand finale of the Tour de Ski. At 14 & agrave scatter; the Final Climb, tracking 9 Km that culminate & agrave; with the finish line on top of the & rsquo; Alpe Cermis and sancir & agrave; the winner of the tenth edition of the Tour de Ski Female.
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