Marit Bjrgen wins as expected the prologue of the Tour de Ski

No surprise in the women's prologue of the Tour de Ski: Marit Bjoergen wins in fact, that starts in the best way the only competition is lacking to his palmares.

Saturday 28 December 2013 3 minutes reading time

To the greatest distance runner of all time is the sixth stage victory in the Tour de Ski, the absolute number 92 in his unparalleled career. The Norwegian takes so immediately the command of the general classification of the Tour de Ski competition which has become even more the big favorite after changing program of Oberhof and after the surrender of Justyna Kowalczyk. Bjoergen, however, had to sweat to beat compatriot Astrid Jacobsen, at the end of only 1 second separated "9. Third stage place for the surprise of the day, Poland's Sylwia Jaskowiec, detached 7 seconds, which makes it less bitter in this house Poland beginning of the Tour de Ski. Fourth place for the best of German, Denise Herrmann, fifth for Jessica Diggins, became the leader of the American team after the flat-rate Kikkan Randall, sixth and seventh for the first Finns, respectively, and Aino Kaisa Saarinen Anne Kyllonen, for the eighth Slovenia Alenka Cebasek, the other for the ninth and tenth American Sophie Caldwell for Kerttu Niskanen. Therese Johaug closes eleventh, and accuses already nearly thirty seconds behind Bjoergen net of allowances in the general classification of the Tour de Ski. One of the first Italian closed thirty, twenty-third issue of Elisa Brocard and the best result for two years now. So the other: Gaia Vuerich thirty-first, forty-Marina Piller, Ilaria Debertolis forty-eighth, fifty-Scardoni Lucia, Virginia De Martin Topranin fifty-ninth, Deborah Agreiter sixty and seventy-fifth Laurent Greta. STANDINGS PROLOGUE 3 KM TL OBERHOF women1. Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 6:34:42. Uhrenholdt Astrid Jacobsen (NOR) +1.93. JASKOWIEC Sylwia (POL) +7.04. HERRMANN Denise (GER) +8.45. Jessica Diggins (USA) +9.2 The complete ranking

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