Lahti 2017 World Cup Cross Country Skiing, Relay 4x5 Km Female

The fifth race with regard to the women's cross-country skiing World Championships in Lahti will be the Relay 4x5 Km, race during the World Cup it is one of the less interesting, but the main event becomes perhaps the most anticipated.

Wednesday 1 March 2017 6 minutes reading time

HISTORY OF THE WORLD CUP RELAY The Relay Female is included in the global program since 1954. Since that issue has always held, until 1972 with factional 3, 1974 in the current formula of 4 athletes per nation, while the mileage has always remained true to 5 km. that of Lahti will be the 32nd gold medal in the history of this format. 6 teams are capable of winning at least once a gold medal in the relay: leading the medals table are the Soviet Union, credited with 12 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronzes, followed by Norway (6 Ori, 6 Silver and 6 bronzes) and Finland (5 Ori, 4 Silver and 7 bronze). He won 5 times (consecutive) even Russia, while first gold medal in the medal of Sweden, East Germany and United Germany. Boast medals of less valuable metals also Italy and Czechoslovakia. Italy has won five world medals in Female Relay, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze. The first was won in Val di Fiemme in 1991, when Vanzetta, Di Centa, Belmondo Paruzzi and were beaten by the Soviet Union; same fate - although on this occasion the Soviet Union had already "transformed" in Russia - and the same quartet two years later in Falun, while in Ramsau 1999 Confortola he replaced Di Centa at the third silver, always power behind the number one of the 90. The two bronzes are arrived at Oberstdorf in 2005 (quartet Paruzzi, Confortola and Valbusa Follis) and in Lahti in 2001 (Paruzzi, Valbusa, Paluselli, Belmondo), however, came only medal following the disqualification for doping in Finland. This is the 'roll of' Full Gold Female Relay at the World 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 ingvild flugstad Ã¸stberg, Marit BjÃ¸rgen, Ragnhild Haga and Heidi Weng preceded Finland and Sweden, Ulricehamn instead Ã˜stberg, Weng, Astrid Jacobsen and Bjoergen beat Germany and Sweden. Italy got an eighth and a ninth place in the two seasonal relay. In La Clusaz the team was composed of Elisa Brocard, Scardoni Lucia, Giulia and Ilaria StÃ¼rz Debertolis, Ulricehamn instead by Virginia De Martin Topranin, Catherine Ganz, Elisa Brocard and Ilaria Debertolis. THE RELAY OF FIRST LEVEL IN LAHTI Relays are 12 first-level disputatesi in Lahti, 8 World Cup and 4 that have respectively awarded the world title in 1958, 1978, 1989 and 2001. The most successful nations are Norway and Russia at 4 victories, however, the latter can also be attributed to the Soviet Union 2 for a total of 6 hits of ex-Soviet movement. In the other two occasions, the victory went to Finland. In terms of podiums Norway controls at 9 followed by Russia and Finland at 7 to 6. Italy has 4 top three relay teams played in Lahti, all three places third of whom achieved between 1995 and 2001 and the last dated March 7, 2010, at the last 4x5 Km held on Finnish snow. PROGRAM LAHTI 2017 The Relay 4x5 Km women that will award the world title in 2017 will be held Thursday, March 2, starting at Italian 14:00 local 15:00. AS A FALUN 2015 1. NOR (Weng, Johaug, Jacobsen BjÃ¸rgen) 49: 04.7 2. SWE (Bleckur, Kalla, Rydqvist, Nilsson) +29.2 3. FIN (Saarinen, Niskanen, Roponen, PÃ¤rmÃ¤koski) +30.8 4. USA (Bjornsen, Brennan, Stephen, Diggins) +1: 49.0 5. POL (Kubinska, Kowalczyk, Marcisz, Jaskowiec) +1: 52.3

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