Historic first victory in the World Cup for Federico Pellegrino!

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The twenty-four of Aosta is imposed in the freestyle sprint in Davos and won his first career victory, as well as bring back the & rsquo; Italy on the step pi & ugrave; top of the podium after almost 5 years. Beaten to the wire Alexey Petukhov and Norwegian Finn Haagen Krogh.

Sunday 21 December 2014 4 minutes reading time

Victory that lacked color blue from February 5, 2010, the day when Giorgio Di Centa and Pietro Piller conquered twice in the Canmore, Canada, in the 15 km freestyle starting at intervals. Victoria suffered for Pilgrim after the & rsquo; excellent fifth place in qualifying, and have won their quarter-final, & egrave; returned in the final with the & rsquo; last time repechage helpful. And in the final instead & egrave; reached this fantastic victory for the & rsquo; Italian who beat two great interpreters of specialty & agrave; as Alexey Petukhov and Finn Haagen Krogh, the Norwegian still has something to rejoice today, because it is the first in the ranking of specialty & agrave; of Sprint and approaches the yellow bib of the leader of the World Cup. Yet another fourth of the season for Calle Halfvarsson, now subscribed to the placement, before him who had dominated from qualification to the semifinals, Sondre Fossli Turvoll, which obviously has not been able to properly manage the effort, while the sixth & egrave; come Emil Joensson. In the overall standings of the World Cup remains to comandoMartin Johnsrud Sundby & nbsp; with & nbsp; 531 & nbsp; points, but & nbsp; Krogh & nbsp; comes dangerously close to share & nbsp; 505, third & egrave; & nbsp; Halfvarsson & nbsp; with & nbsp; 375. Krogh instead maintains the & nbsp; & nbsp red bib; leader's specialty & agrave; of Sprint, which leads with 32 points margin of & nbsp; Petukhov. For the color blue than the & rsquo; important victory of Pellegrino, get a good signal from & rsquo; rookie in World Cup Simone Urbani, who qualified brilliantly but released immediately battery. For him, however, a twenty-seventh place finish that provides points of the World Cup. SPRINT TL MALE DAVOS & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. PELLEGRINO Federico (ITA) 2. Alexey Petukhov (RUS) 3. KROGH Finn H & aring; gen (NOR) 4. HALFVARSSON Calle (SWE) 5. Fossli Sondre Turvoll (NOR) 6. Joensson Emil (SWE) Click here for the complete ranking