Cross-country skiing: Manificat and Johaug win the Ulricehamn distance test

In Sweden the French Manificat beffa Kruger and won the free technical 15km, while in the 10km free technique is dominated by the Norwegian Johaug.

Saturday 26 January 2019 4 minutes reading time

Maurice Manificat manages to win the 15km tl with a start to the intevalli, beating the Norwegian Kruger just 1 '' '' 1. A continuous duel between the French and the Norwegian, Manificat strong party led for half of the race until it came to Kruger's reaction that began to earn by ringing excellent intertempi. But it is in the final race that the transalpine recovers and manages to get back on top of the race mocking the 'opponent and winning the first win of the season. Success that is missing just from Simen Hegstad Kruger here where he had won two years ago. Third has closed the Norwegian Didrik Toenseth good to take advantage of the step of Sjur Rothe, who dragged him up to the finish line finishing at 8 '' '' 7 from the winner. Fourth Ustigov, fifth Rothe, sixth Niksanen, seventh leader of the distance Bolshunov classification, to follow 8th Cologna, 9th Harvey and 10th Musgrave. The best of the Italians is Giandomenico Salvadori who finishes in the points in 14th position, behind Mirco Bertolina 36th, Stefano Gardener 42nd and finally Claudio Muller 65th. Ranking distance still conducted by the Russian Bolshunov to 414 points followed by the Norwegian Rothe to 394 points, third Sundby absent today to 368 points. Race ranking Ranking distance General classification Therese Johaug is uncatchable in the 10 km free technique of Ulricehamn and confirms her unbeaten distance testing by doing 8 out of 8 in the season. He takes home his 54 victory and reaches Justyna Kowalczyk in second place among the most victorious cross-country skiers ever. The race was dominated as Johaug got used to it from the beginning at the end of insurmountable interimpi for the opponents. In second place was the Jacobsen 22 '' '' 8 that returns to the podium after a fast of almost two years, the third Andersson who closed with a delay of 24 '' '' 9 from the winner. To complete the top ten there are: Diggins 4th, Parmakoski 5th, Oestberg 6th, Nepryaeva 7th, Weng 8th, Haga 9th and Nechaevskaya 10th. Tender undertone for the blue that close with Caterina Ganz 40 Â° and Francesca Baudin 58 Â°. In the distance classification Oestberg commands 607 points, followed by Johaug in comeback to 600 points and Parmakoski to 509 points. Race ranking Ranking distance General classification