5 km TC Ruka Triple, Kuusamo (FIN)
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Justyna Kowalczyk wins the second stage of Ruka Triple, a 5 km classic technique, ahead of 3 "0 Marit Bjoergen and 14" 6 Therese Johaug.
Saturday 30 November 2013 3 minutes reading time
So two out of two Kowalczyk, who, after the victory in the sprint yesterday also won the second stage of Ruka Triple. The Polish ago head race from the first intermediate, accumulating the handful of seconds over Bjoergen who manages to keep right at the finish line. For Kowalczyk is the nineteenth win in a stage of a multistage events and the forty-ninth overall career.
No surprise for the podium, with Marit Bjoergen and Therese Johaug confirming the supremacy of this trio of champions that tomorrow we will play in the final standings of the Ruka Triple, not to mention Charlotte Kalla, today excellent fifth in a race held in the technique less congenial to her. In the overall standings of this event multistage fact Kowalczyk guide with 25 "and 45 Bjoergen on" some of Kalla and Johaug. The 10 km of skating tomorrow promise to be extremely interesting, therefore, as the Polish FIS race in Muonio held a fortnight ago has proven to be vulnerable to free technique.
In the top10 stage there is also the Russian Yulia Tchekaleva, excellent fourth, the Finnish Krista Lähteenmäki sixth, U.S. Sadie Bjornsen, seventh and today's revelation, the other Norwegian Astrid Jacobsen and Heidi Weng, eighth and ninth, respectively, and the Japanese Masako Ishida tithing.
Another race to forget for the color blue, with Lucia Scardoni fifty-fifth as best. Very disappointing especially Virginia De Martin Topranin, sixty in what is theoretically the race she likes most. So the other: Ilaria Debertolis seventy-fifth, seventy-ninth Marina Piller and Elisa Brocard ninety-sixth.
RUKA TRIPLE STAGE ^ 2 - 5 KM TC
1. KOWALCZYK Justyna [POL] 13'' 33 "7 2. Marit Bjoergen [NOR] 3" 0 3. JOHAUG Therese [NOR] to 14 "6 4. TCHEKALEVA Youlia [RUS] 18" 4 5. KALLA Charlotte [SWE] 18 "7
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Tomorrow, as said third and final stage of Ruka Triple, a chase of 10 km free technique.
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5 Km Female Ruka Triple, Kuusamo (FIN)
5 km TC Ruka Triple, Kuusamo (FIN)
New success of Justyna Kowalczyk in the second stage of Ruka Triple
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