Cross Country Skiing - Falun 2015
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The fourth race with regard to cross-country skiing World Cup men of Falun sar & agrave; the 10 km free technique.
Tuesday 24 February 2015 10 minutes reading time
HISTORY 15 KM TO THE WORLD
The 15 Km & egrave; one of the historic races at the World Championships in the men's field: it assigns the title proper from & rsquo; edition organized by Falun in 1954, but until 1952 the Oslo World Championship program included a 18 km that can & ograve; be considered the mother of & rsquo; current 15 Km. From that day & egrave; always been present with a & rsquo; interruption between 1993 and 1999, as in years & rsquo; 90 was played as tracking of 10 km classic technique. That of Falun sar & agrave; the twenty-eighth medal & rsquo; gold in the history of this format, the sixth in skating starting at intervals.
Nell & rsquo; d & rsquo register; gold 15 Km rainbow, Veikko Hakulinen and Hallgeir Brenden are the only two cross-country skiers can win 2 times the medal metal pi & ugrave; prized. The two we managed to alternate editions, the Finn in 1954 and 1958, Norway in 1956 and in 1960, when over the world who had also valence Olympic race. Hakulinen & egrave; however leading the medal individual as winner also bronze in 1960. In general, boast three medals also Harald Gr & oslash; nningen (1 Gold and 2 Silver), Thomas Wassberg (1 Gold and 2 Silver) and Sixten Jernberg (2 Argenti and 1 Bronze). Among the athletes in activities & agrave ;, Matti Heikkinen won 1 Gold and 1 Bronze, both for & ograve; classic technique respectively in Oslo in 2011 and Liberec in 2009, Petter Northug 1 Gold (Fiemme 2013), Leanid Karneyenka, Lukas Bauer, Eldar R & oslash; nning and Johan Olsson 1 Silver, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Tord Asle Gjerdalen 1 Bronze.
L & rsquo; Italy boasts four world medals in the men's 15 km. Marco Albarello and Pietro Piller can claim the title of world champion won in both cases to Oberstdorf, the first in 1987 in classic technique, the second in 2005 in free technique. The race in Oberstdorf in 2005 was historic for our colors because & eacute; sal & Igrave; on the podium Fulvio Valbusa, silver. The fourth and final medal l & rsquo; he conquered Maurilio De Zolt, bronze in alternating Seefeld 1985.
At the level of nations, the 15 km men's & egrave; hunting ground of Norway, who won 9 Ori, 6 Silvers and 10 Bronzes with l & rsquo; highlight the sweep of 1966. Behind him in the medal there are Sweden with 6 Ori, 8 Silvers and 3 Bronzes and only nation to have monopolized the podium & ndash; in 1989 & ndash; when the 15 km you & egrave; held in free technique, and Finland with 6 Ori, 3 Silver and 6 Bronze complete with a hat-trick in 1954. They have won at least one gold even the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Italy and Estonia, while East Germany, Belarus and the Czech Republic have at least one medal less precious metal.
That the 'roll of' gold full 15 Km Male at the World Cross Country Skiing
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15 KM THE FIRST LEVEL OF SEASON IN PROGRESS (UPDATE OSTERSUND !!!!)
In the course of this season were played five 15 Km starting at intervals in races tier, 2 to 3 classic and free technique. In alternating Iivo Niskanen & nbsp; celebrated the first career victory in Kuusamo beating & nbsp; & nbsp Martin; Johnsrud Sundby & nbsp; and & nbsp; & Sami Jauhoj auml; rvi; Davos ransom of & nbsp; & nbsp Sundby, who preceded & nbsp; & T Didrik oslash; nseth & nbsp; and & nbsp; & nbsp Dario; Cologna. In the three trials skating surprise success of & nbsp; Anders Gl & oslash; Ersen & nbsp; in Davos with Petter Northug & nbsp; second and & nbsp; Chris Jespersen & nbsp; third, predictions respected instead to Rybinsk with victory & nbsp; Dario Cologna & nbsp; before & nbsp; Evgeniy Belov & nbsp; and Sergey Ustiugov while at & Öland; stersund Finn H & aring; January Krogh won his first race distance in the World Cup in front of Maurice Manificat and Marcus Hellner.
Italians have never approached the podium in the 15 Km starting at intervals played in the current season. The best result obtained Roland Clara reaching 8 & deg; Rybinsk, race where many of the protagonists were absent. Good instead testing team played in Oberstdorf (De Fabiani 7 & deg ;, N & ouml; ckler 10 & deg ;, Clara 13 & deg;) and in Val di Fiemme (De Fabiani 7 & deg ;, N & ouml; ckler 10 & deg ;, Di Centa 12 & deg; and Clara 14 & deg; ), but in both cases it was a 15 Km classical technique and starting to tracking or online. Our point man for the test will be rainbow & agrave; Clara, however, that however will have & agrave; outdo if vorr & agrave; get something more & ugrave; of a placing in the top ten.
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15 KM THE FIRST LEVEL FALUN
5 are the 15 km of the first level that Falun hosted in its history, 2 valid for the World Cup and three World Cup. Nobody & egrave; never been able to establish itself more & ugrave; once: the five winners are Veikko Hakulinen, Magne Myrmo, Bj & oslash; rn D & aelig; hlie, Johan M & uuml; hlegg and Mikhail Ivanov. Even at the level of no podiums & egrave; never managed to finish in the top three for most & ugrave; once, with Norway boasting seven different athletes climbed on the podium in Falun in a 15 Km.
A podium for the Blues in the land of Sweden in this format, that obtained by Pietro Piller February 26, 2000. The Sappada came third in skating behind Johan M & uuml; hlegg and Jari Isomets & auml ;.
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PROGRAM FALUN 2015
The 15km freestyle starting at intervals that will assign male & agrave; world title 2015 disputer & agrave; Wednesdays & Igrave; February 25th. The first writing partir & agrave; 13.30. The race will come & agrave; broadcast live by satellite network EUROSPORT (channel 210/211 and 384/385 platform SKY platform Mediaset Premium)
Click here for the Start List & nbsp; official
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COS & Igrave; A FIEMME 2013
1. Petter Northug (NOR) 34: 37.1 2. Johan Olsson (SWE) +11.8 3. Gjerdalen Tord Asle (NOR) +22.3 4. Ivan Babikov (CAN) +53.6 5. R & Ø THE Sjur (NOR) +1: 03.0
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