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Martin Johnsrud Sundby, despite the & rsquo; wide margin with where it started, do not save, it is the fastest time of the stage and ends in total triumph his Tour de Ski.
Sunday 10 January 2016 7 minutes reading time
The 31 year old from Oslo, who could afford a break COFFEE along the slopes of Cermis, honors rather the way a competition dominated far and wide, in which alone the crisis Oberstdorf looked like it could deprive him of a successful pi & ugrave; I deserved. Sundby fact pushes the first part flat, but once the climb is rather prohibitive to relax continues to force, thus obtaining & Igrave; Also the stage win.
Cos & Igrave; Martin Johnsrud Sundby brings home his third consecutive Tour de Ski, posting record full advantage over the runner (3 & rsquo; 15) and going up to 22 career victories all inclusive. Numbers from phenomenon to a boy exploded perhaps a bit & rsquo; late but that is proving to be much more cross-country skiers & ugrave; strong activity in the world & agrave ;.
He aroused most interest in the fight for the podium positions after a few kilometers in fact Petter Northug, Alexey Poltoranin, Sergey Ustiugov and Finn H & aring; January Krogh is bunched up, taking the climb together. Here & egrave; Krogh who proves the most & ugrave; strong in this particular specialty & agrave ;, pulling opponents and winning a well-deserved second place in the light of what is shown in this Tour de Ski. Third place went to Ustiugov, 23 year-old who won his first podium finish in a multistage competition and that proves once more & ugrave; He can play a leading protagonist in the coming seasons.
Northug and Poltoranin suffer terribly Cermis, the Norwegian who manages in the end to beat the Kazakh and close fourth. Sixth & egrave; instead Sjur R ø tea, which spans Didrik T ø nseth seventh, while the top ten & egrave; completed by Niklas Dyrhaug eighth, Francesco De Fabiani ninth and tenth Emil Iversen.
The Aosta Valley gets cos & Igrave; the best result in his career in the Tour de Ski, centering the & rsquo; aim of the vigil to close the top ten. It resists in the points again Giandomenico Salvadori, who started twenty-third and twenty-seventh ending. Pi & ugrave; back instead Mattia Pellegrin and Roland Clara, arriving one after all & rsquo; the other forty-fifth and forty-sixth place, with l & rsquo; Tyrolean who can not be a leader even in the stage that twelve months ago the regal & ograve; the first and so far only victory in a class race.
TOUR DE SKI MALE 2016 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 2. KROGH Finn H & aring; January (NOR) 3. USTIUGOV Sergey (RUS) 4. Petter Northug (NOR) 5. POLTORANIN Alexey (KAZ)
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As for the climb to Alpe Cermis, the fastest time as said & egrave; was recorded by the usually Sundby, second place and best career result for the French Robin Duvillard, who scored a try which however did not allow him to get in the top thirty of the Tour de Ski, the third found Matti Heikkinen, ending his race eighteenth. From point out the seventh Paul Constantin Pepene which is the best result of all time for Romania in a class race of cross-country men.
CLIMB TO CERMIS MALE & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 30: 47.0 2. Duvillard Robin (FRA) 30: 54.2 3. Matti Heikkinen (FIN) 30: 58.8 4. KROGH Finn H & aring; January (NOR) 31: 01.3 5. BELOV Evgeniy (RUS) 31: 05.9
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With the conclusion of the Tour de Ski, it also updates the & nbsp; the overall standings of the World Cup. The domain of Martin Johnsrud Sundby & egrave; overwhelming: the Norwegian & egrave; In fact in 1422 points, pi & ugrave; than it conquered & ograve; at the end of 2014-15 (1345), and we are only halfway & agrave; season. In second place salt Finn H & aring; January Krogh, who & egrave; at an altitude of 872 and that crosses Petter Northug third at 801. The Norwegian monopoly & egrave; interrupted by Sergey Ustiugov fourth with 650 points, followed by Niklas Dyrhaug, Sjur R ø tea and Didrik T ø nseth.
It & egrave; cos & Igrave; concluded the Tour de Ski Men's 2016 World Cup Cross Country Skiing ripartir & agrave; next Saturday from Planica, where they are planning a sprint free technique and l & rsquo; unique Team Sprint seasonal, always skating.
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