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First career victory for Sergey Ustiugov, who won the sprint free technique Nove Mesto in front of our fellow countryman Federico Pellegrino and Alexey Petukhov
Saturday 11 January 2014 3 minutes reading time
The success of Ustiugov, junior world champion in 2012 in this specialty, it is more than ever deserved: the Russian born 1992 in fact dominates since the qualifiers, he closed with the fastest time and with margin on all the others, and then pass without any difficulty and battery semifinals. In the final proved to be most strong, limiting the return of Pellegrino and Petukhov and taking his first career victory in the World Cup and the second podium after his third place in Davos a month ago. Ustiugov fourth in the pre-Olympic Sochi last year, so is a candidate for a starring role in the Games, at least in the sprint skating.
Second place went to our Federico Pellegrino, who is fighting on par with the most renowned Russian thanks to excellent materials. In the end the success eludes him a little, but there comes the fifth podium of his career, the third race of the World Cup, a result which demonstrates the good show in the Tour de Ski. And with 80 points won Pellegrino passes even topped the list of specialties of the sprint. Third place went to Alexey Petukhov, reached an altitude of 14 podiums in his career including 12 in the World Cup. Completing the picture of the finalists Eirik Brandsdal fourth, fifth and Nikolay Morilov Teodor Peterson sixth.
No other Italian exceeds the hurdle of qualifications. All the big World Cup instead were not present in Nove Mesto, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, therefore, remains firmly in control of the overall standings. Tomorrow the team sprint classical technique, the last team trials in calendar year, excluding the Olympics.
NINE MEN'S SPRINT TL MESTO - FINAL STANDINGS
1. USTIUGOV Sergey (RUS) 2. PILGRIM Federico (ITA) +0183. Alexey Petukhov (RUS) +0584. BRANDSDAL Eirik (NOR) +2145. MORILOV Nikolay (RUS) +2206. Teodor Peterson (SWE) +2.72
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