At the world Championships in ski sports in Seefeld hosted the individual time trial for 10 km among women. The second gold medal in the competition was won by the Norwegian Therese Johaug. Silver was won by 19-year-old Swede Frida Karlsson, and bronze went to world Cup leader, another Norwegian Ingvild Ostberg Flugstad. Best of Russians — Anastasia Sedova Natalia Nepryaeva — finished sixth and seventh.

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The program of the world championship on ski sports in Seefeld after a relaxing day continued with the women’s race with separate start at 10 km. a Year ago at the Olympics in Pyeongchang medal in it was played the ridge course and for the Russians, this discipline was most problematic — the coaches do not even have to say the fourth member of the band. But in Austria due to the rotation of TT should have run the classical style and Russian women increased the chances of success.

Needless to say, the gold going to present Therese Johaug. Classic 10-kilometrovki was her first race on the world Cup after the disqualification, and it began with her winning streak athletes, there were already eight starts. The Norwegian also won a stage in otepää, with a 48-second lead on second place. Johaug passed only one TT this season and the victory went to the Finn Kerttu Niskanen.

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Bronze medallist in the skiathlon Natalia Nepryaeva also managed to show themselves in a race, classic course. During the season she has twice been in third place, so that it can be safely attributed to the applicants for world championship medals. Competition the Russian woman could make Swede Charlotte Kalla and young Ebba Andersson, as well as the leader of the world Cup Flugstad Ingvild Ostberg from Norway.

The representatives of Sweden their status to justify failed — when to start out a group of the strongest skiers, they immediately found themselves outside the top ten. The lead from the first km was captured Johaug. At around 1.2 km Norwegian was still in range, but over the next 500 meters, it easily pulled away from Ostberg four seconds.

Stand up for the honor of the Swedish ski was only Junior Frida Karlsson, who won two gold medals recently at the world championship in his age category. She was lost Johaug seven seconds at the end of a 1.7 km two times more lost occupied the fourth place Nepryaeva.

Since the way Karlsson and Mediaeval sold — Swede began to attack the second line and all the forces to resist Johaug, and the Russians speed began to wane. To the middle distance Nepryaeva inferior to the first 31 seconds, and the top three — 13. Then the gap only grew, and it became apparent that a medal is a native of Tver will not compete.

Other Russians distributed power otherwise if Nepryaeva was still able to qualify for the first five kilometers, Anastasia Sedova shock held the second half of the race.

With 24-th place, she climbed higher and higher, so even Nepryaeva could not expect that will be the best in the team. In the end of the Sedov actually ahead of the leader of the team at the finish and took sixth place. Nepryaeva gave her 2.6 seconds.

Julia belorusova also looked good in the second round, given how poorly it overclocked in the beginning, it hit the top ten still seemed real. However, in the end, the 24-year-old athlete finished 12th.

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World champion Johaug, but at the finish she competed not with a world Cup leader Ostberg, and 19-year-old Karlsson. Swedish to some point inferior to Johaug in just four seconds, and eventually won the silver medal with a gap three times as large. Ostberg was content with a bronze medal. Between her and Sedova in the final Protocol appeared Finca Krista Partakoski and Swiss Nadine Fendrich.

Although the Russians remained without medals in the race with separate start, can be called the positive aspect of this result. 28 February will be the women’s relay, and the Russians in comparison with other teams quite ready. If you compare all the teams in the worst participants, the best was Norway with 19-th place, Heidi Weng, while the Russians were second thanks to the 21-th line of Alice Zhambalova. Two days still possible changes in the compositions, but the time trial gives hope that in the next race of the Russian skiers will again be on the podium.