Fifth stage of the Tour de Ski: 36 Km TL Cortina-Dobbiaco
The World Cup leader Martin Johnsrud Sundby puts a big mortgage on winning the Tour de Ski in 2014 by winning, for dispersion, Cortina-Dobbiaco follower 36 Km
Friday 3 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
The Norwegian, who started first from Cortina, has literally created a vacuum behind it, coming after the 36 km free technique in Dobbiaco with nearly a minute ahead of Petter Northug who ruled the group of pursuers in a sprint without history. Third place went to Canadian Alex Harvey, who has long pulled the chase group.
The winner immediately took advantage of the impasse'' Home of the most immediate followers who have prevaricated in the first kilometers to increase the gap to 16 km on top of the initial climb to 1:10 by 32 seconds to start.
In the central part of the competition the leader has remained constant detachment from the chase group pulled by a phenomenal Johannes Duerr. '' The Austrian reassembled position after position, just think of that started with bib number 34 from Cortina and skimmed only 7 athletes the chase group that presumably will fight until the final podium above the Cermis. For him, the first stage victory in the Tour multistages front of Hoffman'' American and Norwegian Gjerdalen.
Who has not been shown to have the condition than twelve months ago, the Russian Alexander Legkov concluded, however, that the test with the most immediate followers of Sundby. However, especially in the downhill stretch towards Dobbiaco has tried to increase the pace, helped by teammate Chernousov but have not been able to make a difference and reduce the gap to the lead, which was reduced only in ' 'ring final 3.3 km from the stadium in Dobbiaco where Northug took the situation in hand and won the sprint of the beaten quite easily and pocketing the 10 seconds of bonus payable to the runner-up.
At home Italy further proof of our colorless with Giorgio Di Centa, thirty more than three minutes after the first, the best of us.
Who was extremely disappointed in this, on the eve of the competition, was considered one of the favorites to win the stage victory is the Frenchman Maurice Manificat, who in recent days had already revealed, however, a non-optimal. The transalpine ended the trial in thirty-eighth position.
Now the athletes will move to the nearby Val di Fiemme where tomorrow will face a 10 km classic technique starting at intervals that on paper could still sorridire the leader of the event which in the past has been successful in races in classic technique.
Here are the rankings of the stage:
Pos
Name
Year
Nationality
Time
Fraction
1
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
1984
NOR
1:20:18.7
1:20:18.7
2
Petter Northug Jr.
1986
NOR
1:21:16.9
1:20:39.6
3
HARVEY Alex
1988
CAN
1:21:17.4
1:20:42.1
4
Calle HALFVARSSON
1989
SWE
1:21:17.7
1:20:46.0
5
Alexander Legkov
1983
RUS
1:21:18.4
1:20:17.4
6
Johannes DUERR
1987
AUT
1:21:18.9
1:19:07.4
7
Chris JESPERSEN
1983
NOR
1:21:19.2
1:20:06.8
8
Ilia Chernousov
1986
RUS
1:21:22.2
1:20:39.0
9
Ville Nousiainen
1983
FIN
1:22:14.1
1:20:41.1
10
Gjerdalen Tord Asle
1983
NOR
1:22:14.3
1:20:04.3
The genrale after 5 of 7 rounds reads:
Pos
Name
Year
Nationality
Time
Detachment
1
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
1984
NOR
1:20:18.7
2
Petter Northug Jr.
1986
NOR
1:21:16.9
+1:03.2
3
HARVEY Alex
1988
CAN
1:21:17.4
+1:08.7
4
Calle HALFVARSSON
1989
SWE
1:21:17.7
+1:14.0
5
Alexander Legkov
1983
RUS
1:21:18.4
+1:14.7
6
Johannes DUERR
1987
AUT
1:21:18.9
+1:15.2
7
Chris JESPERSEN
1983
NOR
1:21:19.2
+1:15.5
8
Ilia Chernousov
1986
RUS
1:21:22.2
+1:18.5
9
Ville Nousiainen
1983
FIN
1:22:14.1
+2:10.4
10
Gjerdalen Tord Asle
1983
NOR
1:22:14.3
+2:10.6
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