Third stage of the Tour de Ski: Sprint freestyle

Ingvild Flugstad StBerG wins qualification in Lenzerheide. Out Steira

Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg precedes our Greta Laurent and Marit Bjoergen of qualifying sprint skating in Lenzerheide, the third stage of the Tour de Ski. Does not pass the qualification Kristin Stoermer Steira who will lose ground in the optical victory.

Tuesday 31 December 2013 6 minutes reading time

After the controversy that marked the start of this year's Tour de Ski in Swiss land in Lenzerheide in the canton of Grisons, resumed hostilities with a sprint free technique that virtually closes the first part of the Tour and then give way to the tests that will decide the final winner of the event at the turn of the new year. In anticipation of the battery this morning in the afternoon there was the qualification round of ring 1.5 km that has skimmed the seventy-seven athletes at the start to define the top 30 times in the afternoon, the victory will go to the hunting and subsidies in view of the important stages of the Val Pusteria and Val di Fiemme decreed that the winner of 2014. To achieve the fastest time was Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg with a time of 2:52.99. The Norwegian, born in 1992, preceded 2.25 seconds, the surprise of the day, that is our Greta Laurent and Marit Bjoergen. You save with the twenty-seventh time, Therese Johaug then in the afternoon you can try to minimize the damages from the companion and main favorite to win the final of the event. Do not have passed the qualifying several big names, such as Riitta-Liisa Roponen, Claudia Nystad, Anna Haag and Kristin Stoermer Steira. Otre the brilliant Greta Laurent house in Italy has passed the qualification, such Oberhof, even Gaia Vuerich. The Fiemme, author of the eighteenth time, it will go on the hunt for another good result on the Swiss technical track. Even Virginia De Martin and Ilaria Debertolis have qualified for the batteries in the afternoon completing a more than good team result for our athletes. Here are the thirty athletes who will be played starting from 14.45 victory. 1 Oestberg Ingvild Flugstad 1990 NOR 2:52.99 2 LAURENT Greta 1992 ITA 2:55:24 3 Marit Bjoergen 1980 NOR 2:55.76 4 VAN DER GRAAFF Laurien 1987 ON 2:55.98 5 HERRMANN Denise 1988 GER 2:56:33 6 Krista LÃ¤hteenmÃ¤ki 1990 FIN 2:56:52 7 JACOBSEN Astrid Uhrenholdt 1987 NOR 2:56:57 8 CEBASEK Alenka 1989 SLO 2:57.96 9 CALDWELL Sophie 1990 USA 2:58:23 10 KOLB Hanna 1991 GER 2:58:44 11 Anne KYLLOENEN 1987 FIN 2:58.93 12 Niskanen Kerttu 1988 FIN 2:59.61 13 ERIKSON Hanna 1990 SWE 2:59.72 14 MARTIN DE Virginia 1987 ITA 2:59.80 15 JEAN Aurore 1985 FRA 2:59.91 16 Jessica Diggins 1991 USA 2:59.92 17 Settlin Evelina 1992 SWE 3:00:15 18 Vuerich Gaia 1991 ITA 3:00:32 19 SAARINEN Aino-Kaisa 1979 FIN 3:00.82 20 Karolina Grohova 1990 CZE 3:00.94 21 Sylwia JASKOWIEC 1986 POL 3:01:02 22 Sandra RINGWALD 1990 GER 3:01:24 23 ZELLER Katrin 1979 GER 3:01:42 24 WENG Heidi 1991 NOR 3:01:49 25 Ilaria Debertolis 1989 ITA 3:01.86 26 Petra Novakova 1993 CZE 3:02:18 27 Therese JOHAUG 1988 NOR 3:02:49 28 Stefanie BOEHLER 1981 GER 3:02.74 29 CARL Victoria 1995 GER 3:02.85 30 VRABCOVA - Eva NYVLTOVA 1986 CZE 3:03:23

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