Cross-country skiing - Sochi 2014
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Maiken Caspersen Falla best time in the qualification of the women's sprint free technique of Sochi. Inside Vuerich and Laurent.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 3 minutes reading time
Falla realizes a time of 2:32:07, ahead Katja Visnar forty cents and Marit Bjoergen of a second and ten. Proof of the strength of the Norwegians who place in the top seven also Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg sixth and seventh Astrid Jacobsen. Particularly pleasing the result of Jacobsen after the terrible grief that struck last week.
Among the big favorites not brilliant Kikkan Randall, however quietly qualifiers with the eighteenth time. Out instead to surprise Hanna Erikson, who this year won the sprint at the Tour de Ski in Oberhof. No other exclusion excellent, at least among the candidates for a medal.
Access to the batteries also two blue, Gaia Vuerich thirteenth and sixteenth Laurent Greta. Unfortunately for Ilaria Debertolis, except for just twelve cents. The composition of the quarter-finals, which will be triggered at 13:00 Italian. Particularly interesting is the third in which you will face those who were probably on the eve of the first three favorites of the race, Randall, Bjoergen and Herrmann.
1 Maiken Caspersen FALLA NOR10 Stina Nilsson SWE11 Anne KYLLOENEN FIN20 Laurien van der GRAAFF SUI21 Aurore JEAN FRA30 Hanna KOLB GER
5-way INGEMARSDOTTER SWE6 Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg NOR15 Britta Norgren JOHANSSON SWE16 Greta LAURENT ITA25 Petra Novakova CZE26 Ida SARGENT USA
3 Marit Bjoergen NOR8 Denise HERRMANN GER13 Gaia Vuerich ITA18 Kikkan Randall JONES CAN28 USA23 Perianne Mona-Lisa MALVALEHTO FIN
4 Vesna Fabjan SLO7 Astrid Uhrenholdt JACOBSEN NOR14 Alenka CEBASEK SLO17 Nika Razinger SLO24 Mari Laukkanen FIN27 Daria GAIAZOVA CAN
2 Katja VISNAR SLO9 Sophie CALDWELL Jessica Diggins USA12 USA19 Evgenia shapovalova RUS22 Anastasia Dotsenko RUS29 Natalia Matveeva RUS
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Cross-country skiing - Sochi 2014
Maiken Caspersen Falla set the best time in qualifying in the women's sprint
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