Third stage of the Tour de Ski: Sprint freestyle

A majestic Ingvild Flugstad StBerG wins the sprint in Lenzerheide

The third stage of the Tour de Ski in Swiss land in Lenzerheide in the canton of Grisons, saw go on stage in a sprint free technique for fast women last test before the great distance of gari decreed that the queen of the Tour de Ski 2014.

Tuesday 31 December 2013 3 minutes reading time

With a monstrous performance from the morning and dominating all the batteries the young Norwegian, born in 1990, Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg captures the first career individual victory in the final straight by beating with a sumptuous teammate Astrid Jacobsen and the queen of the sprint in this season, Germany's Denise Herrmann. Splendido fourth place for the hostess Laurien van der Graaff going near to matching the best finish of his career. For her, however, remains a great performance obtained precisely in the race he really cared. Completing the top 6 Germany's Hanna Kolb and the U.S. Sophie Caldwell both the best individual result in his career. Just outside the quarter-finals the Norwegian Marit Bjoergen that, getting the same step of the rival Therese Johaug not gaining ground in general greatly complicating the plans of the thirty-three of Trondheim which will now be forced to stretch in the next stages in view of the Cermis climb sharply in favor of the more petite rival. Does not confirm the extraordinary performance of the Oberhof svedere Hanna Erikson that has stopped the semi-finals as well as our Gaia Vuerich and Greta Laurent, third in his heat but with a high time that did not allow access to the final. Eliminated in the quarterfinals the other two blue race in Virginia and Ilaria De Martin Debertolis. Here are the final standings of the sprint: 1 Oestberg Ingvild Flugstad NOR 2 JACOBSEN Astrid Uhrenholdt NOR 3 HERRMANN Denise GER 4 VAN DER GRAAFF Laurien ON 5 KOLB Hanna GER 6 CALDWELL Sophie USA In general the Tour de Ski is always at the Marit Bjoergen, but sees the advantage of reduced notevolemtne Denise Herrmann. Ranking very short, which from tomorrow will be radically redrawn after 10 km Classic Mass Start in the first real test distance.

Gianluigi Ferrario

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