The Russia won the men's team sprint in Nove Mesto

The pair of Russia I (Vylegzhanin-Kriukov) wins the sprint team sprint classic technique of Nove Mesto ahead of the two teams in Norway (RÃ¸nning-Brandsdal and Golberg-Hattestad)

Sunday 12 January 2014 2 minutes reading time

The race follows the traditional pattern of the men's team sprint: Power Pack for two-thirds of the race, until RÃ¸nning (Norway I), his last lap, removing power from the other teams fight for victory. There remain three front: Norway I (Brandsdal), Norway II (Hattestad) and Russia I (Kriukov), or the three strongest sprinter in the race. Here, the world champion and reigning Olympic Nikita Kriukov argues its superiority going to win the sprint in front of Brandsdal and Hattestad. Staccatissimi others: Fourth is enough to surprise the Czech Republic (Jaks-Razym)-fifths of the United States (Hamilton-Newell), sixth Germany (Eisenlauer-Wenzl), seventh Switzerland I (Schneider-Gianluca Cologna), eighth France I (Jay-Miranda) and tenth Sweden II (Hellner-JÃ¶nsson). Ninth place for Italian I (Hofer-Pellegrino), lucky to reach the finals as the last move up, but that nothing in the sight of couples can definitely stronger than them. Out in the semifinals instead of Italy II (Nizzi-Vierin) NINE MEN'S TEAM SPRINT TC MESTO - FINAL STANDINGS 1. RUSSIA (Vylegzhanin-Kriukov) 2. NORWAY I (RÃ¸nning-Brandsdal) +0.23. NORWAY II (Golberg-Hattestad) +1.74. The CZECH REPUBLIC (Jaks-Razym) +13.75. UNITED STATES (Hamilton-Newell) +14.2 .. 9. ITALIAN I (Hofer-Pellegrino) +26.4 The complete ranking

Jacopo Barbieri

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