Nordic SkiingCross Country Skiing - Drammen
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Maiken Caspersen Falla takes third consecutive win in the Sprint classic technique of Drammen beating Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG and Stina Nilsson.
Wednesday 3 February 2016 4 minutes reading time
Although in qualifying he had not stolen the & rsquo; eye, Falla turns in the final stages of the race, winning comfortably battery and reaching the semi-finals and finals as number one rival of & Ø StBerG, to its dominant once in the preliminary stages. The Olympic champion, after a very wait-race breaks out on the long final straight, supporting the rival and beating the skin of our teeth. This for Falla & egrave; win number 9 inclusive of career, number 6 of the World Cup and the number three (consecutive) in the Sprint in Drammen, which & egrave; It has become in 2014 the his garden.
& Ø StBerG has to settle for second place, however, useful in optical crystal ball, while the podium, as has become customary this season, & egrave; completed by Stina Nilsson. Natalia Matveeva also come in the final fourth, Krista P & ä ä rm; Koski fifth and sixth Heidi Weng.
The two Italian qualificatesi for batteries, Greta Laurent and Lucia Scardoni, are sadly eliminated immediately, both coming last in their respective quarter-finals. Laurent is cos & igrave; ranked twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth Scardoni.
In the overall standings of the World Cup Therese Johaug, absent today, it remains in the lead with 1484 points, but & Ø StBerG not give in and with 80 rooms now points to 1344 quota, third & egrave; Weng with 1130. In the ranking of specialty & agrave; Nilsson instead retains the red bib with 434 points against 386 & Ø StBerG and 380 of Falla.
SPRINT TC FEMALE DRAMMEN & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Maiken Caspersen FALLA (NOR) 2 & Ø StBerG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) 3. Stina Nilsson (SWE) 4. Natalia Matveeva (RUS) 5. P & ä ä RM; KOSKI Krista (FIN) 6. WENG Heidi ( NOR)
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The next race of the Cross Country World Cup sar & agrave; always in Norway: Sunday from 12.15 andr & agrave; on stage the legendary 30 km of Oslo, that quest & rsquo; year disputer & agrave; classic technique and mass start.
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