heywoodu 13,615 Posted February 23, 2017 Author #281 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Such a disappointing women's competition after the expected Nilsson vs Falla battle was messed up The men's race though....Pellegrino's final meters as strong as ever And cool to see Klaebo, the next big superstar, take his first medal Edited February 23, 2017 by heywoodu If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,324 Posted February 23, 2017 #282 Share Posted February 23, 2017 FIS NORDIC SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's Sprint FreestyleFinal Results FALLA Maiken Caspersen-F DIGGINS Jessica-F RANDALL Kikkan-F ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's Sprint FreestyleFinal Results PELLEGRINO Federico-F USTIUGOV Sergey-F KLAEBO Johannes Hoesflot-F Falla and Pellegrino are World Sprint Champions 2017 Maiken Caspersen Falla of Norway and Federico Pellegrino of Italy are World Champions in the free technique sprints in Lahti Finland. Falla led the way ahead of a pair of American's Jessie Diggins in silver +1.66 and Kikkan Randall the bronze +3.76. For Falla the 2014 Olympic Sprint Champion it was her first individual World Championship gold medal. She previously won a gold medal in Falun 2015 in the team sprint with Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg. For Diggins it was her third World Championships medal and her second silver. She took second place in the 10 km free technique interval start in 2015, and was World Champion in the team sprint with Randall in 2013. Randall completed her World Championship collection with bronze today, after taking sprint silver in 2009 in Liberec, and the silver with Diggins in Val di Fiemme. Pre race favourites Stina Nilsson of Sweden and Natalia Matveeva of Russia went down in a crash on the final curve in their semi-final. The contact earned Nilsson a yellow card and she was Ranked as Last in her heat. Italy's Pellegrino has always been known for his finish and today he came from second place off the final curve to take the gold and become the World Sprint Champion just won year removed from winning the overall FIS sprint title. In the silver medal position was Russia's Sergey Ustiugov just +0.15 behind and in the bronze medal the rising start of the Norwegian team Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo +0.44 back. It's a first time individual medal for Pellegrino who took the bronze in the team sprint in Falun 2015. This was as well a first individual World Championships medal for Ustiugov who previous had a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay in Val di Fiemme 2013. He has many World Junior and U23 Championship wins. For Klaebo it was his first ever World Championships and the bronze medal follows just 4 days after he recorded his first ever World Cup victory in Otepää, Estonia. Competitions continue Saturday with the ladies' and men's Skiathlon events. Full Qualifications Results Mens and Womens Full Final Results Mens and Womens Maiken Caspersen Falla 2017 Sprint World Champion Womens Sprint Freestyle Final Federico Pellegrino 2017 Sprint World Champion Mens Sprint Freestyle Final Race Replay Women´s Sprint Freestyle Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final Race Replay Men´s Sprint Freestyle Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,615 Posted February 23, 2017 Author #283 Share Posted February 23, 2017 No video of the qualifications? If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,324 Posted February 23, 2017 #284 Share Posted February 23, 2017 42 minutes ago, heywoodu said: No video of the qualifications? Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,615 Posted February 23, 2017 Author #285 Share Posted February 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, hckosice said: Hide contents Thanks They stopped too early though If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,324 Posted February 23, 2017 #286 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: Thanks They stopped too early though I found only this so far, impossible to find any complet video including the Solano race if you were asking for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,615 Posted February 23, 2017 Author #287 Share Posted February 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, hckosice said: I found only this so far, impossible to find any complet video including the Solano race if you were asking for that I was Also for the women's race for obvious reasons but since that YT-channel put the men's race online a few minutes ago, I'm guessing they might put the women's race online later today hckošice 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,615 Posted February 23, 2017 Author #288 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Yeeep there we go Spoiler hckošice and ahjfcshfghb 2 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahjfcshfghb 285 Posted February 24, 2017 #289 Share Posted February 24, 2017 4 hours ago, heywoodu said: Yeeep there we go Hide contents Can always rely on the Russians Im hoping for a Eurosport replay at some point though. I like the commentators (and can understand them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahjfcshfghb 285 Posted February 24, 2017 #290 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Damn Solano. Wanted to see the Ecuadorians Also there was another Venezuelan (only!) 5 minutes faster than Solano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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