Lahti World Cup 2017: Ustiugov Falla and the most fast in qualifying, Pellegrino fifth time

Mondiali Lahti 2017: Ustiugov e Falla i più veloci nelle qualificazioni, Pellegrino quinto tempo
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Lahti World Cup 2017: Ustiugov Falla and the most fast in qualifying, Pellegrino fifth time

They take off with the qualifications of the Sprint Skating, whose medals will be awarded in the second part of the afternoon, the Nordic Ski World Championships in Lahti.

And '' Norway's Maiken Caspersen Falla, leader of the classification of the Sprint World Cup, to be trimmed more than two seconds behind the kilometer and a quarter mile from Lahti to all opponents. The second half of the qualifiers is clocked by the Finnish Mari Laukkanen preceding by 5 cents the Slovenian Katja Višnar and 44 Swedish Hanna Falk. The fifth time is the Swiss specialist Laurien Van Der Graaff before the German Hanna Kolb and Norway's Kathrine Rolsted Harsem. The champion of the world in the format of the last three editions Marit Bjoergen gets the 'eighth time and ahead of Sweden's Stina Nilsson just 6 cents, which has won four of the season in the Sprint 8 program, while the top ten of qualifying is closed from US Kikkan Randall. The best of the blue is Gaia Vuerich closing in seventeenth place at 7.28 by Falla; also they qualify Ilaria Debertolis twenty-third and twenty-eighth Greta Laurent. In the men to raise its voice is Russian Sergey Ustiugov that the kilometers and six hundred meters inflicts the second, the Norwegian Finn Haagen Krogh detachment 2.71. In a league where the top five of the rankings of the format of the World Cup are all featured in the top six is ​​the third Bjørnestad Sindre Skar (at 3:39) preceding the 'single intruder, the Finnish Martti Jylhae (+3.86). Federico Pellegrino, leader of the Cup, does mark the fifth time accusing 4.12 delay Ustiugov ahead of the winner's Last Test in Otepaa, the young Norwegian Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (+4.56). The seventh qualifying time is the French Lucas Chanavat, eighth Russian Alexander Bolshunov while the top ten is closed by two Finnish Matias Strandvall and Ristomatti Hakola. It catches the qualification for less than a second, finishing in twenty-seventh place, Petter Northug. It does not qualify the second blue racing debut at the World Championships, Simone Urbani closing in thirty-eighth position from 13:37 Ustiugov.
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