Nordic SkiingCross Country Skiing - Lahti
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After two break distance back to win Martin Johnsrud Sundby, that is imposed in Skiathlon Lahti in front of four compatriots.
Sunday 21 February 2016 6 minutes reading time
The race follows a script is rather special. Along the 15 km classic technique & egrave; surprise Maurice Manificat he puts in front of the pack to do the forcing, demonstrating the great form they enjoy that is allowing us to be among the great protagonists of alternating races. French Creams the lead group, in which nine remain when it comes to skiing gear.
In the 15km skating Manificat, bench & eacute; theoretically more & ugrave; suitable for this technique, pay the previous effort, and loses contact with a quartet of Norwegians who remains in charge. Starring the usual number one Martin Johnsrud Sundby, that carries Finn H & aring; January Krogh, Didirk T ø nseth and Hans Christer Holund, while Jean Marc Gaillard and especially Petter Northug jump in the air, renouncing any ambition. In the final Sundby attacks gaining some meters that allows him to arrive at the finish line with his arms raised.
To the ruler of the season & egrave; This win number 24 all inclusive career, one away from Dario Cologna which occupies the fifth position in the ranking of most ugrave & cross-country skiers; Winning ever. Sundby also remodeling its 12 victories record number & egrave; to increase even more with the stages and probably the final classification of the Ski Tours Canada.
Second place went to Finn H & aring; January Krogh, last to surrender to Sundby and good to win the first podium of his career in this format or otherwise of this distance. Third & egrave; Instead Hans Christer Holund that sprint has the better of Didrik T ø nseth and confirms the position obtained in & rsquo; another Skiathlon seasonal competed in Lillehammer last December.
The Norwegian domain continues with the fifth place of Niklas Dyrhaug, bravo to resume in the final sprint and beat an exhausted Manificat sixth. Seventh place for Alexander Legkov, eighth for the & rsquo; another subject of King Harald Martin L ø WSTR ø m Nyenget ninth for Jean Marc Gaillard, good at not sink after the initial efforts, and tenth for Maxim Vylegzhanin.
Among blue Francesco De Fabiani can not keep the tails of the best in the segment theoretically him more & ugrave; favorable, remaining in the main group belly and ending cos & igrave; nineteenth. Very good instead Giandomenico Salvadori, which comes in turn in groups finishing twenty-first. Outside the points Roland Clara and thirtieth.
In the overall standings of the World Cup, Sundby & egrave; forced to wait for the North American trip to celebrate the conquest of the third mathematical crystal ball. The Norwegian fact rises to 1960 points, but Krogh & egrave; 1256 when 800 still remain available. & Egrave; Obviously, even an illness that may compel Sundby to give up the Ski Tours Canada would allow Krogh the sensational turnaround.
SKIATHLON MALE LAHTI & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 1: 10: 03.0 2. KROGH Finn H & aring; gen (NOR) +4.9 3. HOLUND Hans Christer (NOR) +8.0 4. T & Ø NSETH Didrik (NOR) 5 +8.6. DYRHAUG Niklas (NOR) +45.1
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They cos & igrave; concluded the Lahti weekend and the European season of the World Cross Country Skiing Cup. The next round & egrave; with the Ski Tours Canada, multistage competition that disputer & agrave; from the first to 12th March and funger & agrave; as final.
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