Petter Northug leads the Norwegian poker Sprint in Drammen

First win Petter Northug seasonal, who won the Sprint Drammen classic front of Ola Vigen Hattestad and Eirik Brandsdal.

Wednesday 3 February 2016 4 minutes reading time

Splendid conduct of race Northug, who after having arrived in the final without risking anything in the preliminary rounds, takes charge of the situation along the & rsquo; last descent and proves the most & ugrave; strong on the long straight final, so that opponents can not even approach him. For the king of Falun & egrave; This is the first victory of the season and 45th of his career all-inclusive, only three less than the record of skiing men belonging to Bj Ã¸ rn D & aelig; hlie. Behind Northug come three Norwegians in the Sprint classic technique remain a & rsquo; another category than the rest of the world. According & egrave; reviving Ola Vigen Hattestad, the first podium of the season, the third instead & egrave; Eirik Brandsdal and fourth Finn H & aring; January Krogh. Teodor Peterson also come in the final fifth and Alexander Panzhinskiy that, after trying to blow up bank in the early stages, had to settle for sixth place. Federico Pellegrino, one blue qualifier, came sixth in a battery certainly not compelling, winning only 5 points. & Egrave; true that the classical technique not & egrave; the dish of the house, but & egrave; also true that with Sondre Fossli Turvoll eliminated surprise the Aosta Valley has wasted a wonderful opportunity to close perhaps for the speech on the cup of specialty & agrave ;. In the overall standings of the World Cup, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, now retired, remains firmly in charge with 1502 points against the 967 of the 901 of Krogh and Northug. In the ranking of the Sprint instead Pellegrino keeps red bib with 405 points, but his pi & ugrave; pursuer & egrave; now own the world champion in office who has 248 points, third & egrave; Baptiste Gros with 205. MALE SPRINT TC DRAMMEN & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Petter Northug (NOR) 2. Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) 3. BRANDSDAL Eirik (NOR) 4. KROGH Finn H & aring; January (NOR) 5. Teodor Peterson (SWE) 6. PANZHINSKIY Alexander (RUS) Click here for the complete ranking The next race of the World Cup Cross Country Skiing & sar agrave; always in Norway: Saturday from 12.15 andr & agrave; staged the legendary 50 km of Oslo, that quest & rsquo; year disputer & agrave; classic technique and with mass start. & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

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