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It & egrave; open over the weekend the Opa Cup, Continental Cup reserved for Alpine countries. Among women brace Justyna Kowalczyk and success of our Ilaria Debertolis.
Sunday 21 December 2014 5 minutes reading time
The three days of Hochfilzen & egrave; taken Friday & Igrave; with sprint classic technique. Comodo success of Justyna Kowalczyk, who & egrave; presented in Austria to hone preparation so far insufficient. The Polish preceded the & rsquo; expert Austrian-born Czech Katerina Smutna and Germany's Sandra Ringwald, then moved to Davos where he finished in seventeenth place the sprint World Cup. Good test of the blue, with Francesca Baudin and Lucia Scardoni capable of reaching the final and finishing fourth and fifth respectively.
OPA CUP & ndash; SPRINT TC FEMALE Hochfilzen & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. KOWALCZYK Justyna (POL) 2. Smutná Katerina (AUT) 3. RINGWALD Sandra (GER) 4. BAUDIN Francesca (ITA) 5. Scardoni Lucia (ITA) The complete ranking
Saturday & egrave; was the turn of a 5 km classic technique starting at intervals, which replaced the 10 Km originally planned. All easy to Kowalczyk, repeating the success of the day before imposing a wide margin of Smutna, again second, and Julia Berger, vent & rsquo; enne German able to precede countrymen Laura Gimmler, Eva Wolf and Elisabeth Schicho. Best blue Ilaria Debertolis ninth, detached 45 & rdquo; 6 from Kowalczyk.
OPA CUP & ndash; TC 5 FEMALE Hochfilzen & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. KOWALCZYK Justyna (POL) 2. Smutná Katerina (AUT) +22.3 3. Belger Julia (GER) +25.4 4. Gimmler Laura (GER) +32.4 5. WOLF Eva (GER) +39.3 The complete ranking
The three days of Hochfilzen you & egrave; ended Sunday with a 5 km free technique always starting staggered. The arms race and the participants leave things as they are, but you & egrave; been a triumph Italian wins Ilaria Debertolis before Virginia De Martin Topranin, French Marion Buillet and the usual Kowalczyk, still in trouble & agrave; in skating. Fifth place of Julia St & uuml; rz and l & rsquo; eighth Lucia Scardoni complete l & rsquo; excellent day for the color blue.
OPA CUP & ndash; 5 TL FEMALE Hochfilzen & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Debertolis Ilaria (ITA) 13: 05.7 2. DE MARTIN Topranin Virginia (ITA) +3.5 3. Buillet Marion (FRA) +3.9 4. KOWALCZYK Justyna (POL) +4.8 5. ST & uuml; RZ Giulia (ITA) +10.9 The complete ranking
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In light of the results of this first stage of Hochfilzen, Smutna commands the general classification of Opa Cup with 200 points against the 152 of Ilaria Debertolis and 135 of Virginia De Martin Topranin. & Egrave; should remember the fact that representatives of the nations that do not belong to the & rsquo; Opa (Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Slovenia) can participate but do not gain points for its ranking. This explains why & eacute; Kowalczyk does not appear despite two wins and a fourth place that would place automatically in command. Smutna also gains the right to participate in tenders rated the second period of the World Cup.
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