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Maiken Caspersen Falla, Heidi Weng, Astrid Jacobsen and Marit Bjoergen win dispersing the medal of 'Gold in the Relay World Championships of Nordic skiing in Lahti.
Thursday 2 March 2017 5 minutes reading time
For Norway's fifth medal 'Oro in five female test Cross Country Skiing up to now played in this edition of the World Championships and the fourth consecutive world title in Relay.
The race is selective since the fraction of launch where Maiken Caspersen Falla, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Anna Haag, with the usual intruder Justyna Kowalczyk, hailing the company as not to be seen again by the opponents to the finish. Norway gives the gearbox with 7 seconds advantage over the others; behind them the United States of Kikkan Randall with just under 30 seconds behind in an attempt to execute a strategy for the unexpected medal which aims to bring the witness in the last lap to Jessica Diggins still comeback away. The rest of the world to the first change accuse already greater than one minute late with Polina Kalsina before fractionist Russia views as a possible outsider, twelfth in a minute and a half.
The script does not change much in the second half: Charlotte Kalla makes an exceptional effort to move back, along with Kerttu Niskanen, Heidi Weng. The forcing succeeds in the first kilometer but to pay it to the distance it is the Swede who gives sull''ultima roughness of the second lap and half goes to 13 seconds by the pair of head, the US with Sadie Bjornsen always in a water bath to 36 seconds.
The fractions are skating for Norway a triumphant journey to the medal of 'Gold: Laura Mononen tries to keep pace with Astrid Jacobsen and a ride you can but in the second round collapses and loses 52 seconds in 2.5 km and is reached by Ebba Andersson who has wisely decided to keep up with his pace. Member States shall deliver the baton to Jessica Diggins with 22 seconds to recover from the podium.
The 'last part is a long walk to golden Marit Bjoergen towards its staff seventeenth world title in his career that comes with a higher per minute advantage for the pursuers. Behind, Jessica Diggins succeeds alone, before giving up, to shave a few seconds - the minimum separation reaches 15 seconds - Stina Nilsson and Krista Parmakoski. Finland can not shake off the Swedish sprinter who punishes, as expected, in the Sprint: medal 'silver to Sweden, Finland Bronze. Fourth place for the United States and fifth place for Russia in 2''28 "by the victorious.
For the Italian quartet the race starts immediately uphill with Lucia Scardoni that closes the first fraction in thirteenth fraction with a gap of 1''35 "by Falla; retrieves a pair of Catherine Ganz positions, eleventh in 2''22" by Niskanen ; Elisa Brocard with the fourth lap time dates back to the ninth position Ilaria Debertolis leads to the goal, with 3''42 "delay from Norway.
LAHTI - RELAY 4x5km FEMALE
1. NOR (Falla, Weng, Jacobsen, Bjoergen) on 52.51.52. SWE (Haag, Kalla, Andersson, Nilsson) to 1.1.63. FIN (Saarinen, Niskanen, Mononen, Parmakoski) in 1:02:14. USA (Randall, Bjornsen, Stephen, Diggins) to 1.33.85. RUS (Kalsina, Belorukova, Tchekaleva, Sedova) to 2.28.66. GER (Hennig, Boehler, Fessel, Ringwald) to 2.38.3
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