Federico Pellegrino third in the Davos sprint and also in the Tour de Ski overall standings

Federico Pellegrino third in the Davos sprint and also in the overall Tour de Ski

standings.

Federico Pellegrino’s condition is growing in the Tour de Ski, now in its fourth stage (out of the seven planned) with the men’s free technique sprint in Davos, Switzerland. The champion from Valle d’Aosta è finished third in the final won by a margin by Frenchman Lucas Chanavat over Swede Edvin Anger, allowing Italy to take its first podium of the season in the World Cup, but above all Pellegrino took away the satisfaction of finishing among the top three finishers, in at least one race of the major circuit, for the 12th year in a row.

That the day was a good one was è understood from the qualifying round, which ended with the sixth time, then Federico passed both the quarters and the semifinals without anxiety, while in the final act nothing could against the superiority’of Chanavat; of Chanavat, but he struggled to the finish to contend for the place of honor with Anger, while behind him trudged the American Gus Schumacher (eventually fourth), and Norwegians Havaard Taugboel (fifth) and Matz Jenssen (sixth).

With this placing Pellegrino revives his overall ambitions given the concomitant exit in the quarters of tournament leader Harald Amundsen (victim of a slip), while Ansgar Evensen did not è go beyond the semifinals. Now è third, just 25″ from Amundsen, while Valnes è second at 11″ from the lead. Good impressions of the day were made by youngsters Martino Carollo and Elia Barp: both fought bravely, coming out on top in the quarterfinals. They had not made the cut Simone Daprà 41st, Giandomenico Salvadori 60th, Paolo Ventura 72nd and Dietmar Noeckler 74th.

In the women’s field, Linn Svahn won a clear victory. The Swede dominated the six-man final in which she edged out Norway’s Kristine Stavaas Skistad and Jessie Diggins of the U.S. Out of the podium finished the other Swedes Maja Dahlqvist and Johanna Hagstroem and Norway’s Mathilde Myhrvold. Out in the quarterfinals were Nicole Monsorno, Federica Sanfilippo and Caterina Ganz; Anna Comarella had not qualified. Thursday, Jan. 4, the program features the pursuits: women at 10:45 a.m., men at 1:45 p.m. with live television coverage on Raisport and Eurosport.

Press Release FISI