Cross Country Skiing - Falun 2015
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Norway gets behind the disappointment of the shipwreck in Sochi and 10 Km of two days ago by winning the medal & rsquo; gold in the 4x5 km Relay female Falun, silver and bronze to Sweden to Finland.
Thursday 26 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
The quartet consists of Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug, Astrid Jacobsen and Marit Bj & oslash; rgen is equally divided the merits of success, as each plays very well their work: Weng creams the leading group, which at the first change, although composed of Only 2 teams, reduced to four the number of pretenders to medals; Johaug attacks detaching Niskanen and maintaining a slight margin of Kalla; Jacobsen takes advantage of falling Rydqvist in the opening bars to create a vacuum; Bj & oslash; rgen finalizes further increasing the advantage on the pursuers and giving to Norway's third medal & rsquo; consecutive gold in the women's 4x5 relay race at the World Championships.
Than today & egrave; Weng for medal number 4 (2 Gold and 2 Bronzes, 3 at the World Cup and the Olympics 1) career, Jacobsen for the number 6 (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze, all at the World Cup), for Johaug the number 13 ( 7 Ori, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze, 10 in the World Cup and the Olympics 3), while for Bj & oslash; rgen & egrave; the number 31 (20 Ori, 7 Silver and 4 Bronze, 21 and 10 at the World Championships at the Olympic Games), a result that allows it to overcome Elena Vaelbe individual medal in women's cross-country skiing World Cup: both have 14 Ori, but the Norwegian 4 Silvers and 3 Bronzes against only 3 of Argenti & rsquo; former Soviet Union.
Fails to Sweden the coup de th & eacute; & acirc; three & nbsp; tried deploying a quartet quite unpredictable. Sofia Bleckur takes no queues Weng and Saarinen, Charlotte Kalla proves to be in great shape mending of Johaug, but Maria Rydqvist & egrave; victim of a crash in the opening bars that makes you pass the train of Jacobsen, however, managed to keep the tails of unleashed Roponen. In last fraction Stina Nilsson is queued intelligently to P & auml; rm & auml; Koski burning it in a sprint for the medal & rsquo; silver that has no history. Judging from & rsquo; outcome of this race, Sweden would have had no chance & agrave; to fight with Norway regardless quartet fielded. Notably, for Kalla and Nilsson & egrave; This medal number 3 obtained in Falun in 2015: no for now & nbsp; has done better than them.
If the top two finish the two teams who were respectively the favorite number one and number two favorite, the bronze medal goes equally banal in what was the third force in the field. Finland with Aino-Kaisa Saarinen launch distances Sweden, but you see reached and exceeded in the second village when Kerttu Niskanen not sustain the pace of Johaug and Kalla. Riitta-Liisa Roponen sews giving Krista P & auml; rm & auml; Koski l & rsquo; & agrave opportunities; to play for the second place, but Miss Lahteenm & auml; ki can not detach Nilsson being beaten sharply in the sprint.
Behind the three podium, emptiness. Quarters come the United States (Bjornsen, Brennan, Stephen and Diggins), trailing by more than a minute and twenty: no drop Sadie Bjornsen in the first fraction, would not have been able to fight for medals. Fifth & egrave; Poland (Kubinska, Kowalczyk, Marcisz and Jaskowiec), the best ever result in a worldwide relay, and not about & egrave; only Kowalczyk. Sixth Germany (Carl, B & ouml; hler, Herrmann and Fessel), never in the race, while the number one disappointment of the day & egrave; represented by Russia (Dotsenko, Tanygina, Zhukova and Tchekaleva), not so much for seventh place but for the posting of 2 & rsquo; 40 suffered from Norway by nearly a minute from the United States.
L & rsquo; Italy (Francesca Baudin, Virginia De Martin Topranin, Marina Piller and Ilaria Debertolis) closes in ninth place behind even France, a result that can worsen the & rsquo; eighth obtained Fiemme 2013 and Sochi 2014, but unfortunately that was what one could wait until the eve.
RELAY 4x5 KM FEMALE FALUN 2015 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. NORWAY (Weng, Johaug, Jacobsen, Bj & oslash; rgen) 49: 04.7 2. SWEDEN (Bleckur, Kalla, Rydqvist, Nilsson) +29.2 3. FINLAND (Saarinen, Niskanen, Roponen, P & auml; rm & auml; Koski) + 30.8 4. UNITED STATES (Bjornsen, Brennan, Stephen, Diggins) +1: 49.9 5. POLAND (Kubinska, Kowalczyk, Marcisz, Jaskowiec) +1: 52.3
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Tomorrow is disputer & agrave; l & rsquo; awaited Relay 4x10 Km male, while women will be back on track Saturday for the 30 km classic technique that completer & agrave; the program of cross country skiing women's World Cup in Falun.
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