World Cup Seefeld: gold to Norway with an immense Kl bo, fantastic bronze for Italy

A devastating KlÃ¦bo gives the Team Sprint tc gold medal to Norway, a splendid third place for Italy with Pellegrino and De Fabiani. Sweden wins the women's test ahead of Slovenia and Norway.

Sunday 24 February 2019 4 minutes reading time

Women's race full of surprises with the gold medal in Sweden (Nilsson-Dahlqvist), silver in Slovenia (Visnar-Lampic) and bronze in the favorite Norway (Ã˜stberg-Falla). Although with an unpredictable finish, the fractions of the race were held without distortions and decisive attacks, with all the best to play the medals in the final. On the final straight Falla seemed to have the victory in hand but the Swedish Dahlqvist has been able to overtake the Norwegian and to bring Sweden on the top step of the podium. From Slovenia outsiders with Lampic in second place that Falla insult in the last meters conquering the second absolute medal for the Slovenian cross country skiing and the first team. Norway 's hegemony is interrupted in these World Cups with the third place of Ã˜stberg and Falla, the fourth of which Russia can not give the rhythm he wanted with Nepryaeva and Belorukova, joining the final sprint. Fifth the United States, sixth Germany, seventh Finland, eighth Switzerland, ninth Belarus and 10th Poland. Italy out in the semifinals because of an unfortunate fall of Greta Laurent who put out the blue couple (Laurent-Scardoni). Final ranking 1. SWEDEN (Nilsson-Dahlqvist) 2. SLOVENIA (Visnar-Lampic) 3. NORWAY (Ã˜stberg-Falla) 4. RUSSIA (Nepryaeva-Belorukova) 5. UNITED STATES (Bjornsen-Diggins) A male sprint team with a classic performance, some attacks during the 6 rounds with attempts by Russia with Bolshunov and Norway with Iversen. But it was during the last lap when, at the time of the change in an almost compact group, Bolshunov immediately increased the pace by putting the pursuers in line. Arrived on the climb at the time of the brow was witnessed a moment of surplace then interrupted by the acceleration of the Russian chased by a very lucid KlÃ¦bo on the last difference left the competition with an impressive progression going to conquer the fifth medal d ' gold for Norway in these world championships. Second Russia with the two fractionists Bolshunov and Retivykh always at the attack. Third a splendid Italy with De Fabiani and Pellegrino always careful on the queues of the first, succeeding then in the final to precede Sweden in the sprint. Fifth France missed especially in the final, the most late Austria sixth, seventh Finland, United States eighth, Slovenia ninth and Canada tenth. Final ranking 1. NORWAY (Iversen-KlÃ¦bo) 2. RUSSIA (Retivykh-Bolshunov) 3. ITALY (De Fabiani-Pellegrino) 4. SWEDEN (Svensson-Halfvarsson) 5. FRANCE (Jouve-Chanavat)