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Finland's Martti Jylh & auml; get the fastest time in qualifying for the Sprint classic Oberstdorf ahead Finn H & aring; January Krogh and Alexey Poltoranin.
Tuesday 5 January 2016 4 minutes reading time
Not surprisingly, the best time of Jyhl & auml ;, one of the few experts in the format shown in the race. The Finnish potr & agrave; play his cards well in the final stages, although the & rsquo; & agrave interest will concern; the fight for the top positions in the overall standings sees a Finn H & aring; January Krogh is rewriting.
However the Norwegian earns only 2 seconds on Petter Northug, fifth, and Martin Johnsrud Sundby, eleventh, ahead of him in the standings. This afternoon potr & agrave; further take advantage thanks to the bonus awarded based on finishing position, but hang up the countrymen, especially Sundby, enterprise seems prohibitive.
The leader of the World Cup in fact continues to joke with opponents, and also in the format of his least favorable result obtained shows its superiority & agrave ;. Among the top ten a few surprises despite the & rsquo; absence of specialists: third & egrave; Alexey Poltoranin, Emil Iversen fourth, fifth gi & agrave; quoted Petter Northug, the sixth & rsquo; another Finnish Anssi Pentsinen, seventh German Sebastian Eisenlauer, the Russian Sergey Ustiugov eighth, ninth and tenth the American Andrew Newell an excellent Francesco De Fabiani.
The Aosta Valley reveals the best Italian in this qualification, demonstrating that it can fight until the end for the top positions in the overall standings of the Tour de Ski. Shortly behind him Federico Pellegrino, twelfth, that this afternoon I will try & agrave; to defend the best technique to him less favorably and to maintain a good lead in the World Cup of specialty & agrave ;. Also qualifies Maicol Rastelli, author of the twenty-first time.
Among the protagonists of the Tour de Ski, tear the pass for the batteries Alex Harvey, Didrik T ø nseth, Niklas Dyrhaug, Maurice Manificat, Sjur R ø tea and Dario Cologna. Alexander Legkov eliminated instead, Evgeniy Belov and blues Dietmar N & ouml; ckler, Giandomenico Salvadori, Mattia Pellegrin and Roland Clara.
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The batteries of the Sprint classic Oberstdorf will start at 15.05; followed by semi-finals and final.
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