Cross Country Skiing - Nove Mesto
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No surprise in the 4x5 km Relay Women's Nove Mesto, with Norway that is imposed easily in front of the United States and Finland. Good sixth place for the & rsquo; Italy.
Sunday 24 January 2016 4 minutes reading time
The race is 2.5 km, during which the group proceeds compact. Then Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG, deployed at launch, begins to get serious, trimming thirty seconds to the rest of the world in half possession. For Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug and Astrid Jacobsen & egrave; joke maintain the advantage and lead Norway to the second success on two relays seasonal.
No surprise even behind the leading nation of the world movement. The United States in fact confirmed second force in the field, with Sophie Caldwell and Sadie Bjornsen good to keep up with Finland in classic technique, and with Elizabeth Stephen and Jessica Diggins cuffs rivals at the North American country giving the best result of all time Relay in a women's cross-country skiing. Finland, with Anne Kyll & ouml; nen, Krista P & auml; rm & auml; Koski, Riitta-Liisa Roponen and Kerttu Niskanen, completed the podium.
In reserve positions we report only the & rsquo; rubbish of course made in the final fraction of Nicole Fessel and Marika Sundin, who however does not prevent them to bring Germany and Sweden respectively the fourth and fifth place. Extremely positive sixth place of & rsquo; Italy: the quartet of Lucia Scardoni, Virginia De Martin Topranin, Ilaria Debertolis and Julia St & uuml; rz, despite the & rsquo; large detachment from the formations on the podium, get an encouraging result in view of a possible return to good levels even in the women.
RELAY 4x5 KM FEMALE NOVE MESTO & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. NORWAY (& Ø StBerG, Weng, Johaug, Jacobsen) 50: 17.2 2. US (Caldwell, Bjornsen, Stephen, Diggins) +42.1 3. FINLAND (Kyll & ouml; nen, P & auml; rm & auml; Koski, Roponen, Niskanen) +55.9 4. GERMANY (Herrmann, Belger, B & ouml; hler, Fessel) +1: 56.1 5. SWEDEN (Settlin, Kalla, Rydqvist, Sundin) +2: 14.9
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The World Cup Cross Country Skiing you take a little break. Next weekend will be played in fact some competitions of the national championships of the main countries involved in this sport. The maximum circuit ripartir & agrave; Drammen Wednesday & Igrave; February 3 with a Sprint classic technique.
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