Nordic SkiingCross country skiing
After a race full of team games and times almost cycling, to establish itself in the 50km free technique is Canadian Alex Harvey. Behind him, the Russian Sergey Ustiugov, ruler of the world to the male with five medals, and the darling of Matti Heikkinen home. For the first time in the history of Canada World cross country occupies the top step of the podium in the individual competition, while the men's Norway concludes the World Championships no individual golds.
Sunday 5 March 2017 8 minutes reading time
The closing competition of this World Cup was characterized by the duel between the two squadrons of these world: Russia and Norway. The two superpowers of the discipline have fielded nearly cycling strategies for groped to wear down the competition. About half of the second of the ten laps of the race the Norwegian Anders Gløersen opened the ball, going on the run, and quickly gaining ten seconds on the group. This raised the comrades Holund, Sundby, Northug and Rothe by the need to keep the high pace in their "shifts" the head of the race, instead engaging the Russians Ustiugov and Chervotkin nell''inseguimento fugitive. After earning a maximum margin of 20 seconds, the Norwegian was absorbed just before the passage in the stadium at 20 km.
Thereafter the platoon of head, as composed of twenty units, has seen alternating in command in Russian and Norwegian rotations, with the exception of the Canadian dell''elvetico Harvey and Dario Cologna, both constantly in the first positions. the second half of the race continued without huge surprises, with the leading group which gradually thinned, leaving behind gradually more and more athletes. Among others Sebastiano Pellegrin, with the best up to half of the race, Germany's Florian Notz, the Japanese Yoshida and finally, on the early climbs's Last round, the Frenchman Jean Marc Gaillard.
Four kilometers from the finish line nineteen athletes resisted in the leading group, led by a couple of kilometers from the generous Gløersen and the Norwegian captain Martin Johnsrud Sundby. In the queues of the leading group, for a few hundred meters flanked Ustiugov even Petter Northug Jr, for the first time you are able to sustain the pace of the best after a very troubled season.
The change of pace final took place at the hands of Sundby, a few dozen meters the point where it was decided the women's 30km. Unlike what happened yesterday the Norwegian office has not surprised their opponents with a sextet consisting of Harvey, Ustiugov, Rothe, Cologna, the Finn Matti Heikkinen and Briton Andrew Musgrave able to overcome hills lined one all''altro behind the leader of the world cup.
Thanks also to really sliding Harvey and Ustiugov ski managed to riaffiancare Sundby downhill, digging himself and the other a vacuum of a few meters. Sull''ultima climb the Norwegian tried to get rid of opponents, but the brow the trio was still compact. Sull''ultima descent Harvey and Ustiugov have been able to enjoy higher performance materials, hanging up and surpassing the Sundby before the final straight. Appended to the Norwegian all''ultima curve Matti Heikkinen, he managed to win the tails of the train with un''ultima descent addressed perfectly. Thanks to a choice of winning trajectory Finnish managed nell''ultimo to cancel her departure from the zone medals. While Alex Harvey and Sergey Ustiugov they walked one after all''altro the conquest of the two most precious metals, Martin Sundby Johnrud stumbled after losing coordination, giving Matti Heikkinen bronze and the chance to redeem himself after the fall in the relay of Friday. Lost concentration and Sundby podium has stopped pushing, finding himself also overtaken by Andrew Musgrave, the first top ten in a World Championships. The sixth and seventh Sjur Røthe and Dario Cologna, to close the group capable of reacting at the click of Sundby.Primo the chasing Petter Northug, the second best result of the season after the World Championship sprint. Maurice Manificat and Hans Christer Holund have closed the top ten.
Alex Harvey comes the sixth individual win in the first level and the second gold after the successful World Championship races in Oslo 2016 team sprint with Devon Kershaw. For male Norway closes the standings from the world's worst manifestation of Thunder Bay in 1995. Just like in this edition Norway had dominated the 4x10km but had not received any individual gold, in a review monopolized by Vladimir Smirnov and Silvio Fauner.
For the Italian team the best result of the day is the 40th place of Sebastian Pellegrin, able to match the pace of the best for 25kmDopo being long in the thirty, the young blue has found no traveling companions tains dell ' 'last tour, experiencing the return of a group of athletes who inseguiva.L''altro Italian in the race, Sergio Rigoni, closes his first participation in the world to 46th place.
Here are the full results: http://live.fis-ski.com/2232/results-pda.htm
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