Cross-country skiing - World Cup 2017 u23
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The youth World Cup in Park City the day was dedicated to skiathlon under23, disputatisi on the distance of 7.5 + 7.5 km for women and 15 + 15 km for men.
Saturday 4 February 2017 6 minutes reading time
In the women - both the sprint of 10 km - was not spared too much to tactics, as the strongest athletes alternately followed the strategy required to keep a fast pace right from the start in absentia of the Swedish Anna Dyvik, dominatrix.
In the segment classic it has therefore performed an impressive selection, especially at the instigation of the German Julia Berger and Finnish Johanna Mantitalo. The passage of these two was only held by the Norwegian twin Fight Udnes and Tiril Udnes Weng.
The quartet in command has remained so even with the transition to skating, while behind the tread of the Russian Yana Kirpichenko - separated by about half a minute in mid-competition - began a furious comeback in her most congenial technical skating.
In the final fight Udnes Weng and Mantitalo have further raised the bar and, on the last climb, the Scandinavian launched the decisive attack to win the gold medal, while the sinivalkoinen had to settle for the silver.
The possessed Kirpichenko was able to harpoon bronze, sverniciando own in anticipation of the arrival Tiril Udnes Weng, fourth at last. Berger instead sold in the closing stages and was ranked eighth, also behind Ilene Defrancesco.
The blue was among the best in the part in skating and ski down to the final seventh place. Italy also collecting the tenth Monica Tomasini. Further back Catherine Ganz, sixteenth.
Thus the twin Weng - distant cousins ​​of Heidi - now have both a medal at the neck. Fight that of today's gold while Tiril silver in the 10 km.
SKIATHLON 7.5 / 7.5 KM FEMALE 1. WENG Fight Udnes (NOR) 40'50 "2. 9 MANTITALO Johanna (FIN) 3" 8 3. KIRPICHENKO Yana (RUS) 13 "9 4. WENG Tiril Udnes (NOR) to 15 "6 5. Dahlqvist Maja (SWE) 21 '0 6. FINK Pia (GER) 23' 6 7. DEFRANCESCO Ilenia (ITA) 24 '7 8. Julia BERGER (GER) 26' 0 9. HEIMDAL Lovise (NOR) 50 "0 10. TOMASINI Monica (ITA) to 53" 5
In the men's race the scheme was both simple and monotonous.
In the very early stages of the competition Valentin Chauvin Frenchman was in charge of making the pace ahead of the pack, making a decent selection. However the race has definitely svoltata when the three men on the podium in the 15 km have relied on their strength.
The Russians Alexander Bolshunov, Alexey Chervotkin and Denis Spitsov have coalesced and already classic in the segment have pulled greatly all opponents. The trio proceeded in accord once passed to skating, making sure well in advance to give Russia a new hat-trick.
With the competition now transformed into a real family affair, the fight for the medals has seen a genuine track stand between the three Russians and it was decided involata where Chervotkin was the quickest and won the gold medal , relegating Bolshunov Spitsov silver and bronze.
So for Bolshunov there are a gold and two silvers in three races, for Chervotkin a gold, a silver and a fourth place for Spitsov two bronze medals.
Distressed blue. Manuel Perotti, Sebastian Ventura Paolo Pellegrin and have classified all of the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth position, while Stefan Zelger retired.
SKIATHLON 15/15 KM MALE 1. CHERVOTKIN Alexey (RUS) 32'55 "7 2. BOLSHUNOV Alexander (RUS) 0" 2 3. SPITSOV Denis (RUS) 0 '5 4. LAPIERRE Jules (FRA) 11' 5 5. RÃœESCH Jason (SUI) 14 '3 6. Kvaale Gaute (NOR) at 33 "0 7. CHAUVIN Valentin (FRA) 49' 1 8. ESTEVE Altimiras Irineu (AND) to 56" 8 9. Patrick CALDWELL (USA) in 1'24 "4 10. TIBERGHIEN Jean (FRA) in 1'33" 6 MEDAL FINAL CATEGORY Under23 2-3-3 (8) - RUSSIA 2-2-2 (6) - 2-0- NORWAY 1 (3) - 0-1-0 SWEDEN (1) - FINLAND
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