hckošice 13,246 Posted January 6, 2017 Author #131 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Diggins gets 5 km hat-trick The USA's Jessica Diggins has won her third consecutive 5 km free technique competition in the interval start format. She joins Elena Valbe as the only female skiers to win 3 straight times at that distance, technique and format. Finland's Krista Parmakoski got her first second place finish of the season and brought herself closer to the top three in the Tour with her result today. Parmakoski remains 4th in the overall standings after stage five +36.8 seconds back from Norway's Heidi Weng, who now leads the Tour. Weng finished 5th on the day +17.5 behind Diggins but moved into first place in the Tour when Sweden's Stina Nilsson had her worst day of the Tour with a 20th place finish +40.5 off the lead. The USA's Sadie Bjornsen recorded her first ever individual World Cup podium take the third spot on today's podium +14.6 seconds back of her teammate. Similar to the men's competition Bjornsen bumped Charlotte Kalla from third by just 0.3 seconds. Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg struggled to an 8th place finish today +23.5 off the winning time of 12:45.6 but remains in 2nd place in the Tour standings +11.1 behind Weng. Nilsson fell to third in the standings +16.3 back with just two stages of the Tour remaining. The Tour now moves to Val di Fiemme, Italy for the final two stages. Stage 6 will feature 10/15 km mass starts in classic technique with stage 7 being the traditional 9 km in free technique finishing at the top of Alpe Cermis. Full Results Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 7, 2017 #132 Share Posted January 7, 2017 This is turning out to be the most interesting women's Tour de Ski in many years. Norwegians get defeated again! #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnator123 292 Posted January 7, 2017 #133 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Krista Pärmäkoski is on fire this season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,246 Posted January 7, 2017 Author #134 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Nilsson & Sundby win thrilling stage 6 of Tour de Ski Stage six of this year's Tour de Ski brought perhaps two of the most exciting competitions we have seen in many years. The ladies' 10 km classic mass start competition won by Sweden's Stina Nilsson saw Tour favourites Heidi Weng and Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg both of Norway struggle on the stage and both slip in the overall standings. With Nilsson's victory she now has a 19.2 second lead of Weng and Oestberg fell to 4th in the overall +1:23.3. On the podium with Nilsson was Finland's Anne Kylloenen in second place +3.0 for her first podium of the season and in third was Charlotte Kalla (SWE) who recovered from an early fall and finished +3.7 behind her teammate. Krista Parmakoski (FIN) also fell in the same turn as Kalla and fought her way back to take 4th place and with that result moved into 3rd in the overall standings +53.9 back from Nilsson. In the men's competition 2-time Tour de Ski champion Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) stopped Sergey Ustiugov's (RUS) Tour stage win streak at 5 by winning the men's 15 km event. Ustiugov held on for second place +2.2 back but gave up 23 seconds in his overall lead. Sundby now sits 1:11.9 back in second place in the overall standings. The men's race saw team tactics from both Norway and Russia as each protected their top skiers during bonus sprints on course and at other times lifting or slowing the pace. In third place on the day was Finland's Matti Heikkinen +2.8 off the lead and jumped up the overall standings to now sit 4th behind Switzerland's Dario Cologna. Canada's Alex Harvey had his worst day of the Tour finishing 19th +38.7 back and slipped to 6th in the overall behind Heikkinen and France's Maurice Manificat. The battle for 3rd in the overall Tour will perhaps be the most interesting with 4 athletes being separated by just 50 seconds with just the final climb up Alpe Cermis left. Full Results Men and Women Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,140 Posted January 8, 2017 #135 Share Posted January 8, 2017 It's strange seeing so liitle snow in Val di Fiemme, when there is so much elsewhere in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,572 Posted January 8, 2017 #136 Share Posted January 8, 2017 And Weng won the tour, boring day for the tour today.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swewi 299 Posted January 8, 2017 #137 Share Posted January 8, 2017 It is to Easy to get big time differences in this final climb. You can win every stage but if you are a bit less good in this one, you have no chance. But great with third place for Stina and congrats Heidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 8, 2017 #138 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Heidi unfortunately wasn't able to miss the finish here and make things interesting. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,246 Posted January 8, 2017 Author #139 Share Posted January 8, 2017 8 minutes ago, dcro said: Heidi unfortunately wasn't able to miss the finish here and make things interesting. haha yes this was epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,246 Posted January 8, 2017 Author #140 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Heidi Weng wins 11th FIS Tour de Ski Norway's Heidi Weng has won the 11th edition of the FIS Tour de Ski. To do so she recorded the fastest time of the day by 38 seconds ahead of the USA's Liz Stephen. This was the first stage win of this Tour for Weng and she is now the only female winner of the Tour de Ski with less than two stage victories in a single Tour. In the battle for the final Tour podium Weng - starting with bib 2 - was able to erase her 19.2 second deficit to Sweden's Stina Nilsson by the bottom of Alpe Cermis and powered away for a clear victory in a time of 33:34.3. Finland's Krista Paramoski who was 3-times a 4th place finisher in the Tour de Ski also caught Nilsson roughly three quarters of the way up Alpe Cermis to finish in second place +1:37.0 behind Weng. Nilsson who looked to be struggling and possibly at risk of also being caught by Norway's Ingvild Flugstad hung on for 3rd place +1:54.4 back from the lead. Oestberg crossed the line just 10 seconds later. In the race for Fastest of the Day which counts for World Cup points it was Weng ahead of Stephen with Finland's Kerttu Niskanen in third +46.0. Austria's Teresa Stadlober was just 3.7 seconds behind Niskanen for 4th with yesterday's second place finisher Anne Kylloenen in 5th +1:00.1. Nilsson ended up with the 18th (+2:13.6) fastest time of the day, with Oestberg in 6th (+1:00.2) and Parmakoski 7th (+1:02.3). Full Results Here Tour De Ski 2016/17 Final Standing Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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