Nordic SkiingOberstdorf 2021
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First medal races at the World Championships in Oberstdorf and immediately great emotions for Italy, which is betting everything on Federico Pellegrio, who will be engaged tomorrow in the Sprint in classic technique and on Sunday in the Team Sprint in free technique.
Wednesday 24 February 2021 3 minutes reading time
It starts at 09:00 with the women's qualification, immediately after the men take to the track, while starting at 11:30 it will start to get serious with the batteries. Eight blues in the race. Among the women we will see Greta Laurent, Lucia Scardoni, Caterina Ganz and Nicole Monsorno, making their world debut. In the men's field, in addition to Federico Pellegrino, there will be Francesco De Fabiani, Maicol Rastelli and another rookie: Simone Mocellini.
Pellegrino, fresh winner of the Sprint World Cup, will try to replicate what he did in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, when he was silver behind the unattainable Klaebo, in the technique less congenial to him. The blue champion starts as an outsider. The favors of the prediction go in fact to Klaebo himself and to his compatriot Valnes. Behind them, several athletes start with podium ambitions, including Chicco, in addition to the Russians, the other Norwegians and the Swede Svensson.
Sweden, which also aims for medals in the women's field, where it presents itself as a leading nation and with the strongest athlete at the moment Linn Svahn. However, there is no shortage of opponents, starting with the Slovenian Anamarija Lampic. But pay attention to the Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla, who arrived at these world championships with the lights off, but able to turn on at the most important moment of the season. In this case the blues do not start with podium ambitions but with the aim of hitting the qualification for the heats and then the semifinal.
Here the male Startlist!
Here the female Startlist!
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