Tour de Ski: Poltoranin wins, Northug extends lead

The 25-year-old Poltoranin ran the five kilometers in the classic technique for his second World Cup victory in 12.37,9:8,0 minutes. With this strong performance in spring-like temperatures, the Kazakh, who is a classic specialist, beat out Petter Northug from Norway and the Swiss Dario Cologna, who were 8,2 and XNUMX seconds slower than Poltoranin, respectively.

Northug, the wearer of the red jersey, increased his lead in the overall ranking over Cologna by 5,2 seconds, as the Scandinavian received a time bonus of ten seconds, while the Swiss “only” got five. This means that Petter Northug has a total lead of 16,1 seconds over Cologna before the last two stages in Fiemme Valley. Alexander Legkov from Russia is in third place, 23,4 seconds behind the Norwegian cross-country skiing star. Fourth overall, Legkov's compatriot Maxim Vylegzhanin, is also less than a minute behind Northug (+42,0). This quartet will fight for victory in the Tour de Ski 2012/13 in Trentino on Saturday and Sunday.

Di Centa remains the best Italian Back to the distance race: The best “Azzurro” over five kilometers was Giorgio Di Centa, who lost 32,4 seconds to the day’s winner Poltoranin. Dietmar Nöckler finished the classic race in 23rd position (+36,3), Roland Clara was 41st (+59,1) in front of the home crowd, while Thomas Moriggl was 54th (+1.07,4). In the overall ranking, Di Centa is also the best Italian in 17th place, 2.40,0:30 minutes behind Northug. Dietmar Nöckler remains in the top 25 (5.01,7th/+32), while Clara and Moriggl are in positions 33 and XNUMX respectively, around five and a half minutes behind.

Tour de Ski, 5th stage in Toblach

Men's 5 kilometer distance race in the classic technique 1. Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) 12:37.9 2. Petter Northug (NOR) +8.0 3. Dario Cologna (SUI) +8.2 4. Dmitriy Japarov (RUS) +13.7 5. Alexander Legkov (RUS) +15.7 6. Calle Halfvarsson (SWE) +16.1 7. Alexander Bessmertnykh (RUS) +16.5 8. Lukas Bauer (CZE) +17.3 9. Finn Haagen Krogh (NOR) +19.3 10. Maxim Vylegzhanin (RUS) +23.4

17. Giorgio Di Centa (ITA) +32.4 23. Dietmar Nöckler (ITA/Brunico) +36.3 32. Valerio Checchi (ITA) +47.0 37. Mattia Pellegrin (ITA) +56.9 41. Roland Clara (ITA/Reischach) +59.1 45. Fulvio Scola (ITA) +1:00.8 54. Thomas Moriggl (ITA/Schlinig) +1:07.4 59. Fabrizio Clementi (ITA) +1:10.1

Tour de Ski, overall ranking after 5 of 7 stages 1. Petter Northug (NOR) 2:19.20,9 hours 2. Dario Cologna (SUI) +16,1 seconds 3. Alexander Legkov (RUS) + 23,4 4. Maxim Vylegzhanin (RUS) +42,0 5. Lukas Bauer (CZE) +2.02,1 6. Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) +2.03,1:XNUMX minutes 7. Ilia Chernousov (RUS) +2.08,6 8. Marcus Hellner (SWE) +2.15,4 9. Dmitriy Japarov (RUS) +2.18,4 10. Calle Halfvarsson (SWE) +2.21,2

17. Giorgio Di Centa (ITA) +2.40,0 25. Dietmar Nöckler (ITA/Brunico) +5.01,7 28. Valerio Checchi (ITA) +5.12,5 32. Roland Clara (ITA/Riscone) +5.27,6 33. Thomas Moriggl (ITA/Slingia) +5.34,1 47. Fabrizio Clementi (ITA) +7.18,6 49. Fulvio Scola (ITA) +7.31,8 58. Mattia Pellegrin (ITA) +9.56,5

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