Lenzerheide / OSLO (AP) Petter Northug (29) showed that he has sinister intentions in today’s sprint. In the prologue of the Tour de Ski-opening were only three runners better than him.
The Italian Federico Pellegrino won ahead of Andrew Young and Sergej Ustiugov.
Northug was best Norwegian in the short but tough trail in Swiss Lenzerheide. He went into the fourth-best time and showed that he is a creepy man in the quarterfinals which start at 15.55 today.
Even so, not 29-year old particularly happy out where he shook his head in the target area with towering mountains and sunbathers audiences around them.
Northug singling out heat number two to the quarterfinals. There he meets none other than world number one in the sprint and today’s prologue winner, Federico Pellegrino. The other four in this heat is Andrew Newell, Martti Jylhae, Andrej Larkov and Oskar Svensson (see all Quarterfinals gentlemen bottom).
VG Direct from clock 15.55: Follow sprint finals here
In addition, dominating World Cup leader Martin Johnsrud Sundby and was sixth in the prolog. Finn Haagen Krogh (7), Sondre Turvoll Fossli (22) and Anders Gløersen (26), Niklas Dyrhaug (29) and Didrik Tønseth (30) joins the Mosvik express in the first Tour de Ski competition for the year.
Sjur Rothe, Hans Christer Holunder, Emil Iversen are all out.
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Six Norwegian girls on
Therese Johaug can breathe a sigh of relief before the quarterfinals on today’s sprint.
Photo: Bjorn S. Delebekk , VG
Therese Johaug can smile after today’s sprint prologue. She took the pass to the quarterfinals in his weakest discipline along with five other Norwegian girls.
Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg were all competitors superior and won the prologue in front of American Sophie Caldwell and Swiss Nadine Fandrich.
To quarterfinals get Flugstad Ostberg with the Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (number 6), Maiken Caspersen Falla (7), Ragnhild Haga (20), Therese Johaug (23) and Heidi Weng (24).
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Kari Øyre SLINDE was number 36 in the area that counts 71 runners. Thus there will be no quarter-final on
For the Swedes, however, today prologue have been worrisome. Their great hope along with Charlotte Kalla, Stina Nilsson, staggering through the short route and ended up number 30. She is specially sprinter and finished second in the sprint Cup behind Maiken Caspersen Falla.
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To get the quarterfinals for the gentlemen:
Heat 1: Find Hågen Krogh, Roman Schaad, Sergej Ustiugov, Anders Gløersen, Thomas Bing, Niklas Dyrhaug.
Heat 2: Petter Northug, Federico Pellegrino, Andrew Newell, Martti Jylhae, Andrej Larkov, Oskar Svensson.
Heat 3: Jovian Hediger, Emil Jönsson, Simeon Hamilton, Joeri Kindschi, Sondre Turvoll Fossli, Luis Stadlober.
Heat 4: Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Dario Cologna, Dominik Baldauf, Ristomatti Hakola, Bernhard Tritscher , Didrik Tøbseth.
Heat 5: Andrew Young, Roman Furge, Anssi Pentsinen, Sebastian Eisenlauer, Renaud Jay, Ivo Niskanen
To get the quarterfinals for the ladies:
Heat 1: Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg, Hanna Falk, Laurien van der Graff, Sandra Ringwald, Anstastia Dotsenko, Gaia Vuerich.
Heat 2: Sophie Caldwell, Hanna Kolb, Maiken Caspersen Falla, Natalia Matveeva, Heidi Weng, Stina Nilsson.
Heat 3: Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Sadie Bjornsen, Charlotte Kalla, Alenka Čebašek, Nathalia von Siebenthal, Lucia Anger.
Heat 4 : IDA INGEMARSDOTTER, Vesna Fabjan, Krista Parma Koski, Denise Herrmann, Ragnhild Haga, Ida Sargent.
Heat 5: Nadine Fandrich, Greta Laurent, Jessica Diggins, Nika Razing, Therese Johaug, Anne Kyllönen.
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