The Slovenian Lampic and Russian Retivykh win the Sprint Pyeongchang

And '' it began in Pyeonchang the stage of the World Cross Country Skiing Cup that has the function test event ahead of the Olympic Games next year.

Friday 3 February 2017 4 minutes reading time

Three weeks dall''apertura of Lahti World Championships all the major players in the specialty, however, have preferred to improve their condition in the Old Continent in view dell''appuntamento champion deserting the Korean stage: many teams have sent contingents compounds from athletes second level, others as the 'Italy has given up the trip. In the women's victory in the Sprint classic technique scheduled today went to the Slovenian twenty Anamarija Lampic the first victory in the World Cup, where his best performance so far was the seventh in the Sprint, accounting technique, exactly one year ago in Drammen. Slovenia crossed the line ahead of the Norwegian Silje Oevre Slind that burned at the finish line the US Ida Sargent. It has failed to get on the podium the Polish Justyna Kowalczyk who, on returning to the main circuit after the Nordic Lillehammer, after getting the second half of the qualifiers finished in fourth place ahead of the Russian Alisa Zhambalova the first placement in the top ten career and the Slovenian Katia Visnar. Pyeongchang - Sprint C Female 1. Lampic Anamarija [SLO] in 3.41.792. Slind Silje Oeyre [NOR] 1,603. SARGENT Ida [USA] in 1794. KOWALCZYK Justyna [POL] in 2355. ZHAMBALOVA Alisa [RUS] in 4246. VISNAR Katja [SLO] at 17:10 go to full results In the men, the final three players saw the Russians Gleb Retivykh victory, a first for him, and on the final straight overtook the Norwegian Sondre Fossli Turvoll while Andrev Parfenov managed to resist the powerful return of the Canadian Len VÃ¤ljas. It had to settle for fifth place on the third Russian in the race, Alexander Panzhinskiy, fastest time of qualifying. Sixth the American Andrew Newell. Pyeongchang - SPRINT C Male 1. RETIVYKH Gleb [RUS] in 3.30.792. Sondre Fossli Turvoll [NOR] in 0303. Parfenov Andrev [RUS] in 0734. VALJAS Len [CAN] in 0745. PANZHINSKIY Alexander [RUS] in 1496. NEWELL Andrew [US] at 17:19 Go to full results

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