Skiing tour. Ustyugov wins the sprint at the Tour de Ski
Ustyugov retained his leadership in the overall Tour de Ski ranking
The current winner of the stage race was tenth in the 15-kilometer time trial.Two-time world champion Sergei Ustyugov continues to lead the Tour de Ski stage race after a 15-kilometer race in the classic style with a time trial.
The day before, the 25-year-old Russian skier became the winner of the sprint, and on Sunday he took tenth place, losing 37.1 seconds to the winner Dario Cologne.
News | Cologna won the 15-kilometer time trial at the Tour de Ski, Bolshunov was fourthDespite this, Ustyugov retained first place in the overall standings, in which he is 1.6 seconds ahead of Cologne. Alexander Bolshunov is in third place with a lag of 12.7 seconds. The top ten also includes Alexey Chervotkin, he is in eighth place.
Let us add that Ustyugov is the current winner of the Tour de Ski.
"Tour de Ski"
Overall standings
1. Sergey Ustyugov (Russia) - 38.05.0
2. Dario Cologna (Switzerland) - +1.6
3. Alexander Bolshunov (Russia) - +12.7
4. Alexey Poltoranin (Kazakhstan) - +22.0…
8. Alexey Chervotkin (Russia) - +49.8
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Today, January 7, at 16:30 Moscow time, at the VII stage of the 12th traditional stage ski race Tour de Ski 2018 in the Italian Val di Fiemme, the 9 km freestyle pursuit race starts with the finish at the top of the legendary mountain Alpe di Cermis. Nine of the 11 leaders after the penultimate race managed to win the Tour de Ski. Only Dario Cologna in 2013 and Petter Northug in 2010 missed out on the lead on the uphill climb. Both skiers ended up second. We bring to your attention statistical facts about the final stage of the Tour. MEN 9 km FREE STYLE PURSUIT
Nine of the 11 leaders after the penultimate race managed to win the Tour de Ski. Only Dario Cologna in 2013 and Petter Northug in 2010 missed out on the lead on the uphill climb. Both skiers ended up second.
The previous 11 Tour de Ski winners were all in the top 2 overall heading into the final race. Alexander Legkov in 2013 and Lukasz Bauer in 2010 started second. Legkov's gap was 6.5 seconds, Bauer's - 8.3 seconds.
Only two of the last six uphill race winners (in pure time) managed to end up on the stage race podium: Martin Jonsrud Sundby in 2015/16 (first) and Chris Jespersen in 2013/14 (second).
Bauer in 2010 and Tobias Angerer in 2007 also showed best time and won the stage race.
Sundby (2) and Bauer (2) are the only people to have won the Tour de Ski pursuit more than once.
Only Sundby managed to win two pursuit races in one Tour in 2015/16 (a second pursuit was added to the stage program in 2014/15). This year, the 15-kilometer pursuit race at stage III in Lenzerheide was won by Dario Cologna.
No athlete has won more World Cup stage race pursuits than Maurice Manifika, who has 4 victories. Sundby and Bauer won such races three times each.
Four of Manifik's nine World Cup victories came in the pursuit.
Ustyugov wins the sprint at the Tour de Ski. This finish is worth re-watching.
Russian skier Sergei Ustyugov won the 1.5 km sprint at the stage of the multi-day Tour de Ski race in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
The 25-year-old athlete showed a result of 2 minutes 57.28 seconds. For Ustyugov this is the first victory of the season.
Italian Federico Pellegrino finished behind the two-time world champion from Russia.
Ustyugov, we recall, is the winner of the Tour de Ski of the 2016/17 season.
Another Russian, Alexander Bolshunov, who turns 21 on December 31, managed to reach the semifinals on Saturday.
“I’m very glad that I won. You know what our circumstances are. We have to go out and fight to the end,” Ustyugov said in an interview after the race.
"Tour de Ski". 1st stage. Lenzerheide (Switzerland)
Men. Sprint
1. Sergey Ustyugov (Russia) – 2.57.3
2. Federico Pellegrino (Italy) – +0.99
3. Lucas Chanava (France) – +2.76
Among the women, the sensational winner was the owner of the track, Lauren van der Graff. American skier Sophie Caldwell came second to the finish line, and Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla came third.
22-year-old Russian Natalya Nepryaeva, who ran in the sprint final for the first time, took fourth place, gaining 46 bonus seconds.
On December 31, cross-country skiers in Switzerland will run 15-kilometer and 10-kilometer pursuits. The Tour de Ski will end with the traditional mountain climb on January 7, 2018.
Women. Sprint
1. Lauren van der Graff (Switzerland) – 3.25.80
2. Sophie Caldwell (USA) – +1.42
4. Natalya Nepryaeva (Russia) – +3.17
Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexey Filippov
The second day of the prestigious multi-day race turned out to be less successful for Russia than the first.
After the success at the start of the Tour de Ski, we were all waiting for the banquet to continue. Fortunately, there are enough strong skiers in the current team. One is worth it. And, fortunately, he is not alone. There are others who are capable of winning medals at big competitions.
BOLSHUNOV'S DRAMA
Even at the 11 km mark in the men's race everything was going great for us. That's all - this, which carried the closest pursuer 4 seconds, and even 10. I wanted to believe that the ward Yuri Borodavko will make a wonderful gift for himself, because on December 31 the athlete turned 21 years old. However, the last part of the distance was too difficult for the Russian...
At the 13.5 km cutoff, Bolshunov was already third, ahead by 3.8. At the same time, the Norwegian had an earlier starting number, and Alexander ran based on his time. But that didn't help either. The Russian struggled at the finish line with all his strength, which was not much at the end of the distance, but in the end lost to Sundby by a meager 0.9. The disgruntled athlete punched the snow angrily and left the stadium in a terrible mood. Bolshunov failed to give himself a gift. Although for a person who is spending his first season in the World Cup, fourth place is far from so bad.
Moreover, Alexander is third in the sum of the first two races. He is only 12.7 behind the leader. The winner of last year's Tour de Ski, Sergei Ustyugov, is still in first place. Today's race didn't go well for "Loose Calf" - he was tenth, 37.1 behind the winning Cologna. At the same time, the two-time world champion did not look immensely tired after the finish. Maybe the servicers didn’t quite get it right with the ski wax, or maybe Ustyugov was just not in the mood. After winning yesterday’s sprint, Sergei did not hide the fact that he went to the start without much emotion and a couple of days ago he seriously intended to skip the stage race. The point is about 11 suspended Russian skiers, for whom our athlete is very worried.
As for the denouement of today's trial, it turned out to be dramatic. Cologna was ahead of Alexey Poltoranin by some 0.6. As a result of this, the Swiss is now only 1.6 behind Ustyugov in the overall standings of the tour, and Poltoranin has risen to fourth position. He is 22 seconds behind the leader. Tomorrow we will have a freestyle pursuit race and it promises to be very interesting.
WOMEN: BEYOND TEN
Hopes for a Russian medal remained alive after the men's race on Sunday. A few hours after it ended, on the same track, the strongest women in the 10 km classic time trial were determined. And this season she managed to teach everyone that she is capable of fighting with world leaders, including in this discipline. The 22-year-old athlete, curiously, was one of the last to start. After her there were no top distance athletes, that is, Nepryaeva ran, knowing exactly the results of most of her rivals.
The beginning turned out to be optimistic. At the first cutoff (1 km), Natalya was in the top three. Unfortunately, our athlete failed to maintain the pace she had set. With each subsequent kilometer, her gap from the leaders grew, and she sank lower and lower in the protocol. It probably has something to do with inexperience. Still, the day before, Borodavko’s ward had lost a lot of strength and emotion when she reached the final of the sprint, and the difficult track against the backdrop of under-recovery was not at all easy for her.
As a result, Nepryaeva finished 12th and became the best of ours, ahead of even , which was faster at the 8.5 km cutoff. Natalya is now fifth in the overall standings. If we proceed from the fact that Yuri Borodavko, before the start of the Tour de Ski, set her the task of finishing in the top six at the end of the entire stage race, so far everything is going according to plan. But the athlete herself is completely unhappy with her performance today. And this is a good sign.
The Russian is 1.6 seconds ahead of the Swiss, who became the best in today's 15-kilometer race.
Men. 15 km KS. 1. Colonia (Switzerland) - 35.29.5. 2. Poltoranin (Kazakhstan) - 0.6 (lag). 3. Sundby (Norway) - 13.1. 4. BOLSHUNOV - 14. 5. CHERVOTKIN - 15.2... 10. USTYUGOV - 37.1... 13. VOLZHENTSEV - 48.6... 23. LARKOV - 1.08... 29. YAKIMUSHKIN - 1.25.5... 37. MELNICHENKO - 1.38, 6… 40. SPOKES - 1.47.1… 43. VITSENKO - 01.49.9.
Overall standings: 1. USTYUGOV. 2. Colonia - gap 1.6. 3. BOLSHUNOV - 12.7... 8. CHERVOTKIN - 49.8.
Women. 10 km. KS. 1. Ostberg - 26.59.4. 2. Veng (both - Norway) - 25.7. 3. Bjornsen (USA) - 42.2... 12. NEPRYAEVA - 1.15.1... 16. SEDOVA - 1.21.2... 20. ZHAMBALOVA - 1.38.4... 54. GUSCHINA - 3.00.01... 56. NECHAYEVSKAYA - 3.08.4 .
MOSCOW, December 31. /TASS/. The Tour de Ski, a multi-day cross-country ski race, starts on Saturday in Val Müster, Switzerland. Next week there will be stages in the German Oberstdorf, Italian Dobbiaco and Val di Fiemme, the winners of the tour will be determined in the overall standings and individual events.
The Tour de Ski was created in 2006, similar to the Tour de France in cycling, where participants complete several stages in different cities over several weeks. As part of the ski tour, participants will have to run both sprint and long distances in classic and free style, so all-around skiers usually win the overall competition.
The only Russian winner of the Tour de Ski is Alexander Legkov, who became first overall in 2013, but he will miss the current stage race. Legkov, Evgeny Belov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov, Yulia Ivanova and Evgenia Shapovalova were temporarily suspended from competition due to suspicion of violating anti-doping rules. Russian athletes sent to the International Federation skiing(FIS) demanded that they be allowed to participate in the Tour de Ski, but the FIS doping commission rejected the appeal.
The results of the Tour de Ski races are included in the World Cup, where Russian skiers have achieved only one victory this season - on December 11, Sergei Ustyugov won the freestyle sprint at the stage in Davos, Switzerland. In the previous cup race in La Clusaz, France, Legkov took third place in the 15 km freestyle mass start race. Russian skiers did not take a place on the podium this season.
Three countries in nine days
The Tour de Ski will take place from December 31 to January 8. On the last day of the year in Val Muster there will be sprint races for men and women in free style, on January 1 there will be mass start races in the classic style, women's 5 km, men's 10 km. On January 3, Oberstdorf will host a skiathlon (women - 10 km, men - 20 km), the next day - freestyle pursuit races (women - 10 km, men - 15 km).
On January 6, the stage starts in Italian Dobbiaco (Toblach), where women will run 5 km freestyle, and men will run 10 km. On January 7, Val di Fiemme will host classic mass start races (10 and 15 km). The tour will end on January 8 with a traditional nine-kilometer uphill pursuit race, at the end of which the overall winner will be determined. Only skiers who have completed all previous Tour de Ski races can claim success.
The first winners of the tour in 2007 were the German Tobias Angerer and the Finnish Virpi Kuitunen. The tour was won three times by the Swiss Dario Cologna, and Justyna Kowalczyk from Poland won four women's titles. Three times in 2014-2016, Norwegian Martin Sundby won the overall standings of the tour, but his 2015 result was canceled due to anti-doping rule violations, and the victory was given to compatriot Petter Northug.
Last year, the Norwegians Sundby and Teresa Johaug won the overall standings of the tour; the Italian Federico Pellegrino and the Norwegian Ingvild Flugstad Østberg took first in the sprint standings.
