Italy ''s silver medal in the women's relay of junior World Cup!

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I of Park City cross country junior World Cup ended with the relay, competitions that have given a great satisfaction to the Italian movement, finally managed to get on the podium after a plethora of placings in the top ten.

Sunday 5 February 2017 8 minutes reading time

In the women's field - where the test has the characteristics of a 4x3.3 km - no lack of emotions. The first half had as great protagonist German Antonia FRABEL, managed to take command of the operation clearly separating all opponents. Behind the Teutonic unleashed has formed a squad of four units, consisting of the Russian Polina Nekrasova, by Italy's Martina Bellini, the Swiss DesirÃ©e Steiner and Juliette Ducordeau French, that changed about fifteen seconds. So they immediately lost ground all the Nordic countries. Frida Karlsson the Swedish and Finnish Vilma Nissinen (together with American Hailey Swirbul) have given witness ten seconds later than the aforementioned quartet. Instead disastrous proof of the Norwegian Mathilde Myhrvold, who has lost more than two minutes, condemning leaving their team. That of Germany proved to be an outburst with no concrete follow-up and the second fraction has only had as protagonist Anna Comarella. The blue has taken the initiative, spreading all direct rivals and Italy allowing you to change the lead at the end of the segments alternately. The Russian Lidia Durkina has limited the damage, remaining at 10 "from the tread. Sweden (Moa Lundgren) and Finland (Eveliina Piippo) met at 20 ", France (Flora Sweets) in half a minute and the USA (Julia Kern) to 45". In the third quarter the Russian Anna Zherebyateva was able to mend the breach by Italy's Francesca Franchi. Therefore the command was formed a tandem, chased a twenty seconds from France (Laura Chamiot Maitral) and the United States of un'indemoniata Hannah Halvorsen, able to recover heavily soil. Sweden, devoid of its star Ebba Andersson, Finland and Germany have rather raised the white flag. In the fourth fraction Mariya Istomina claimed his qualities, leading Russia to the gold medal. Behind him Cristina Pittin defended superbly, allowing Italy to rake the silver medal, countering's pressing recovery Katherine Ogden, who gave the US hosts the bronze. Nothing could transalpine Lena Quintin, fourth at last. RELAY WOMEN 1. RUSSIA (Nekrasova, Durkina, Zherebyateva, Istomin) 34'45 "2. 3 ITALY (Bellini, Comarella, Franks, Pittin) 20" 6 3. UNITED STATES (Swirbul, Kern, Halvorsen, Ogden) 25 "8 4. FRANCE (Ducordeau, Sweets, Chamiot Maitral, Quintin) in 1'05" 0 5. SWEDEN (Karlsson, Lundgren, MajbÃ¤ck, Olsson) in 1'20 "3 6. GERMANY (FRABEL, Richter, Sauerbrey, Rydzek ) in 1'44 "2 Even the men's field (4x5 km) were seen repeated changes in the values â€‹â€‹in the field and the pattern of the fight for victory was very similar to that of the female sector. Just as between women, was Germany the great protagonist of the first half, with Janosch Brugger to keep a straight rhythm only from the French Martin Collet. The Norwegian Herman Martens Meyer and the Russian Egor Kazarinov changed to about 10 ", while the Swiss Livio Matossi has paid twenty. The situation has stirred in the second village, where the Russian Kirill Kilivnyuk climbed into the chair taking solitary command of operations. The Norwegian Jon Rolf Skamo Hope and Camille Laude French were in degrees to defend itself, containing the gap in about ten seconds, while the Germans and Swiss have come out of contention for the podium. In the third quarter the Norwegian Harald Ã˜stb Amundsen was shown on Russian Yaroslav Rybochkin. French Camille Laude has nevertheless held blow, limiting minimizing damage and putting ice in the third place of his team. In the fourth and last stage of the Norwegian Thomas Helland Larsen and Russian Vladislav Vechkanov they have resulted in a furious duel, without anyone being able to get the upper hand on the other. The dispute was resolved in the sprint, where the Scandinavian has prevailed. So gold medal for Norway, which has relegated to silver Russia. Arnaud Chautemps instead had easy play in bringing France to bronze. Italy (Mattia Armellini, Luca Dal Fabbro, Martin Cordazzi, Simone DaprÃ ), has continued to center table, finishing seventh. RELAY MEN 1. NORWAY (Meyer, Hope, Amundsen, Larsen) 49'36 "2. 1 RUSSIA (Kazarinov, Kilivnyuk, Rybochkin, Vechkanov) to 0" 4 3. FRANCE (Collet, Laude, Lapalus, Chautemps) 1 ' 05 "4 4. GERMANY (Brugger, LeismÃ¼ller, Kuchler, Vogt) in 2'39" 5 5. SWITZERLAND (Matossi, Schlitter, Lozza, Imwinkelried) in 4'03 "5 6. CZECH REPUBLIC (Machac, Matous, Kalivoda , PechouÅ¡ek) in 4'03 "7 MEDAL FINAL CATEGORY JUNIOR 4-2-2 (8) - RUSSIA 2-3-2 (7) - 1-1-1 NORWAY (3) - GERMANY 1-1-0 (2 ) - 0-1-0 SWEDEN (1) - ITALY 0-0-2 (2) - USA 0-0-1 (1) - FRANCE

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