Lahti 2017 World Cup Cross Country Skiing, Team Sprint Male

The third race, the first team, with regard to the men's cross-country skiing World Championships in Lahti will be the Team Sprint classic technique.

Saturday 25 February 2017 6 minutes reading time

HISTORY TEAM SPRINT WORLD CUP The Team Sprint gives the world title starting from the edition of Oberstdorf in 2005. That of Gong will be the seventh gold medal in the history of this format. Being a team trials, he should analyze the medals by nation and not for individual athlete. The only team capable of repeating itself, even winning 3 Gold, is Norway, which has excelled in 2005 in Oberstdorf in free technique (Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland), in 2009 in Liberec in the classical technique (Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan KjÃ¸lstad) and in 2015 in Falun again skating (Finn Haagen Krogh and Petter Northug). The medal of this format to the second place is Russia with 1 Gold (Alexey Petukhov-Nikita Kriukov in Fiemme 2013), 2 Silver and 1 Bronze, the third Italy with 1 Gold and 1 Bronze. Significant success of Canada in Oslo 2011: thanks to Devon Kershaw and Alex Harvey the land of the maple leaf won the first gold of the American continent at the World Cup cross-country skiing. Germany also boast medals (2 Silvers), Sweden (1 Silver), Czech Republic (2 bronzes), Finland and Kazakhstan (1 Bronze). As anticipated, Italy boasts two medals in this format, the gold won by Renato Pasini and Cristian Zorzi edition of Sapporo 2007 and the Dietmar NÃ¶ckler bronze and Federico Pellegrino in Falun 2015. Zorzi also boasts the fourth place in Oberstdorf paired with Freddy Schwienbacher, while Pellegrino was fifth in Fiemme in 2013 teamed with David Hofer. This is the 'roll of' full gold Male Team Sprint at the World Cross Country Skiing THE TEAM SPRINT TOP LEVEL OF THE SEASON IN PROGRESS During this season you were played two Team Sprint in top-level competitions, both curiously freestyle while medals will be awarded to the Lahti classical technique. At Dobbiaco victory of Canada (Valjas-Harvey) in front of Sweden (Westberg-Svensson) and Italy (NÃ¶ckler-Pellegrino), while Pyeongchang, race in which many big were not present, the success of Russia (Parfenov-Retivykh) on France ( Gros-Chanavat) and Russia II (Maltsev-Kriukov). Italy, present only on home snow in Dobbiaco, succeeded as mentioned in the third step of the podium with the proven NÃ¶ckler-Pellegrino torque, while Zelger-Nizzi were eliminated in the semifinals. It will still be hard to nab another medal whereas in Lahti will compete in alternating step. THE TEAM SPRINT TOP LEVEL IN LAHTI Italy, however, has a number of satisfactions in the Team Sprint played in Lahti. 3 editions, the Azzurri are set 2 times, even if these successes were achieved several years ago and both in skating: January 18, 1997 the success went to Giorgio Di Centa and Maurizio Pozzi, March 3, 2002 to Giorgio Di Centa and Cristian Zorzi. In the latest edition, dated March 6, 2004, victory instead of Russia with Nikolai Pankratov and Vassili Rotchev, while the nation with more podiums together with Italy is Sweden, third in 1997 and second in 2004. PROGRAM LAHTI 2017 The Team Sprint Men's classic that will award the world title in 2017 will be held Sunday, February 26. The semifinals will begin at Italian 10:30 local 11:30, the final hand at Italian 12:30 local 13:30. AS A FALUN 2015 (TEAM SPRINT A TECHNICAL FREE) 1. NOR (Krogh-Northug) 15: 32.89 2. RUS (Petukhov-Kriukov) +5.64 3. ITA (NÃ¶ckler-Pellegrino) +5.73 4. GER (Bing-Tscharnke) +6.11 5. FIN (Nousiainen-JylhÃ¤) + 13.66

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