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The 15 km free technique starting to Canmore intervals gives different emotions, from back to success after five years of Matti Heikkinen.
Friday 11 March 2016 7 minutes reading time
The world champion of this distance, but classic technique, in Oslo in 2011 had already & agrave; It is proven to be fit in Skiathlon two days ago, finishing third. Today it is even better: pianissimo party, so that after 5 Km occupied the fifteenth position at 17 seconds from the leadership, in the second half & agrave; race engages the higher gears, a comment on the twelfth kilometer and reach the finish line 13 seconds ahead of everyone.
For Heikkinen & egrave; This is the number 5 all inclusive career victory, l & rsquo; last had arrived five years ago in its 15 Km alternately that incoron memorize options World Champion. Obviously & egrave; the first & ndash; for him and for Finland, including women & ndash; a season that seemed not to have to even begin: in September it had been the victim of a stress fracture in his back that had even feared for his career.
Yet another joke for Evgeniy Belov, in turn author of a final ride at a fast pace which, however, does not allow him to resist the unleashed Heikkinen. Russian & egrave; s & igrave; the first podium of the season, but the four obtained in career are all second places. Third place for Marcus Hellner, another guy who, like the first two, & egrave; the victim of an extremely troubled season from a physical point of view and which can memorize options thus finding consolation from this stand, which also & egrave; the first for Sweden in the men's cross country back from the worst season ever.
Just gi & ugrave; Alex Harvey from the podium, in the lead for over half & agrave; race but unable to keep the pace until the end. The 27 year-old of QUEB & eacute; c must cos & igrave; again give up what would be the first victory of a Canadian on home snow. Good fifth place for Robin Duvillard, who for once replacing its & ldquo; captain & rdquo; Maurice Manificat, the thirteenth day, as best French. Confirmation for Ivan Babikov, as in the tenth Skiathlon two days ago, for the rest, in the top ten, there are the big losers of the day, the Norwegians.
Sixth & egrave; Martin Johnsrud Sundby, author of a subdued proof than the standard to which we have become accustomed over the course of & rsquo; winter, but winner of the race of the stars of the Ski Tours Canada. Petter Northug fact ends eighth, trailing by 10 seconds from Sundby, while Sergey Ustiugov & egrave; twelfth to 35 seconds by the Norwegian.
Therefore l & rsquo; tracking of tomorrow seems open to any solution: Ustiugov partir & agrave; about 30 seconds before Northug and Sundby, who ricompatteranno When returning to work in the hope of the hare. The track of Canmore, definitely more & ugrave; regular than the climb to Alpe Cermis which enshrines the winner of the Tour de Ski, potr & agrave; offering performance and uncertainty until all & rsquo; last meter. Off playing the rest of the world, with Harvey occupying the fourth position in more & ugrave; 2 minutes from Ustiugov.
Returning to today's race, Finn H & aring; January Krogh finished seventh and Hans Christer Holund complete the top ten in ninth place. pretty disappointing race for the color blue: no one hits the scoring area, with Francesco De Fabiani thirty, Giandomenico Salvadori thirty-fifth, thirty-seventh and Federico Pellegrino Dietmar N & ouml; ckler forty-fourth.
15 KM TL MALE CANMORE & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Matti Heikkinen (FIN) 35: 16.3 2. BELOV Evgeniy (RUS) +13.6 3. Marcus Hellner (SWE) +13.9 4. Alex Harvey (CAN) +21.7 5. DUVILLARD Robin (FRA) +28.8
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Tomorrow, therefore, grand finale with the 15 km classic technique to chase that disputer & agrave; always in Canmore and concluder & agrave; Ski Tours Canada and the World Cup.
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