Lahti 2017 World Cup Cross Country Skiing, Relay 4x10 Km Male

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Lahti 2017 World Cup Cross Country Skiing, Relay 4x10 Km Male

The fifth race regarding the men's cross-country skiing World Championships in Lahti will be the Relay 4x10 Km, race during the World Cup is one of the less interesting, but the main event becomes perhaps the most anticipated.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD CUP RELAY The Relay Male is inserted in the program of the world since 1933. Since that issue has always played, always with the current formula of 4 athletes per nation with mileage set at 10 km. That of Lahti will be the 43rd medal ' gold in the history of this format despite the races are only 42: 1982 in Oslo fact not even the photo finish was able to establish that he had won between Norway and the Soviet Union, so the gold was awarded ex-aequo to both nations as well as the bronze, attributed to Finland and East Germany for what has gone down in history as one of the best races and amazing ever. 6 teams are capable of winning at least once a gold medal in the relay: leading the medal we find Norway, credited with 17 Ori, 9 Silver and 5 Bronze, followed by Finland (9 Ori, 11 Silver and 6 Bronze) and Sweden (9 Ori, 7 Silver and 11 Bronze). He won 5 times the Soviet Union, while one gold medal in the medal of East Germany and Austria. Boast medals of less valuable metals also united Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and France. Italy has won eight World Championship medals in the Relay Male, 2 Silver and six Bronzes. The two second places back in Seefeld 1985 (Albarello, Vanzetta, De Zolt, Ploner) and Gong 1993 (De Zolt, Albarello, Vanzetta, Fauner), the bronzes are been won in Chamonix 1937, Zakopane 1939, Oslo 1966, Thunder Bay 1995 Trondheim 1997 Ramsau 1999. This is the 'roll of' full of gold at the World Championships Relay Male Cross Country Skiing THE RELAY OF FIRST LEVEL OF THE SEASON IN PROGRESS During this season you were played two Relays in top-level competitions, both won by Norway, as always proved the strongest team. In La Clusaz the quartet of Didrik Tønseth, Martin Sundby, Anders Gløersen and Finn Haagen Krogh preceded Russia and France, in Ulricehamn instead the same quartet with Simen Krüger to replace Tønseth beat Sweden and Canada. Italy got a fifth and a sixth place in the two seasonal relay. In La Clusaz the team was composed of Dietmar Nöckler, Francesco De Fabiani, Giorgio Di Centa and Federico Pellegrino, a rather Ulricehamn same men in classic technique fractions, with Giandomenico Salvadori and Sebastian Pellegrin in skating. THE RELAY OF FIRST LEVEL IN LAHTI Relays are 14 first-level disputatesi in Lahti, 9 World Cup and 5 who have awarded the world title respectively in 1938, 1958, 1978, 1989 and 2001. The most successful nation is Sweden at 4 victories followed by Norway and by the hosts of Finland with 3. Two successes also for Italy, always arrived on March 1 of 1990 respectively 1996. At the podium level always command the Scandinavian countries: Norway Driving at 11 followed by Sweden and Finland to 9 to 8. No podium for Italy with the exception of two victories previously mentioned. PROGRAM LAHTI 2017 The Relay 4x10 km men that will award the world title in 2017 will be held Friday, March 3rd, starting at Italian 12:30 local 13:30. AS A FALUN 2015 1. NOR (Dyrhaug, Tønseth, Gløersen, Northug) 1: 34: 18.5 2. SWE (Richardsson, Olsson, Hellner, Halfvarsson) +0.6 3. FRA (Gaillard, Manificat, Duvillard, Backscheider) +8.9 4. RUS (Vylegzhanin , Bessmertnykh, Legkov, Belov) +31.0 5. ON (Schnider, Cologna, Baumann, Livers) +2: 03.0
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