Tour de Ski: Klaebo wins, 4th place for Pellegrino

The twentieth Tour de ski cross-country – which had its general rehearsals on the Olympic track of Lago di Tesero, in Va di Fiemme – goes to the archives with the record of triumphs of the Norwegian Johannes Klaebo, and the fourth place of Federico Pellegrino, who after having come close to the most uncomfortable position in the race in Dobbiaco, finished for the third time immediately behind the first three. all Vikings. Nobody like Klaebo, who this season also crossed the finish line of 100 individual victories in the World Cup: the Norwegian reaffirmed his superiority even in the stage event which pays well (80,000 euros to the winner) and above all guarantees the winner 300 points to download in the World Cup.

proud

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In the last stage with the climb of Cermis, Pellegrino reached the top from seventh. Then the Italian standard-bearer said: “I’m certainly very proud of how today went. To think that I was there fighting until the last 200 metres. It’s useless to sit there complaining about all the places where I may have lost that handful of seconds which then sees me far from the podium, so I look at the glass half full. I won’t be able to say that I have a podium at the Tour de Ski in my palmares, but I think that three fourth places in four years is a great value, a solidity not to be little, and I and the whole team can be proud of this. This shows that over the course of an entire career you have to be able to believe in yourself a little more and it’s not easy, especially in a system like the Italian one where the turnover of coaches is practically annual. But thanks to my legs, I’ve been lucky enough to have long relationships with coaches and especially with the last one, the awareness that I can continue to improve until the end of my career, and that’s how it seems to be going now. I don’t feel like I’m too tired, so I’ll just do a couple of days of total recovery and then two weeks of high volumes I will race in Oberhof and Goms not in the best physical condition, but aware that it is also necessary to go through those races to put the right fuel in my legs, and then we will see.” Then come the Games, where the 35-year-old from Valle d’Aosta aims to become the first Italian cross-country skier on the Fiemme snow with 3 individual podiums in 3 editions of the Games (he already has 2 silvers in the Sprints, in addition to world gold and two World Cups). The last Italian podium dates back to the 2008 Tour with Giorgio Di Centa, third.

stages

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Mattis Stenshagen (Nor) is the stage winner over Jules Lapierre (Fra) and Emil Iversen (Nor). In the final ranking Klaebo in 1h56’12” beat Stenshagen (Nor) at 30″1 and the former king of the Tour, Amundsen (Nor) at 1’08″4. Elia Barp was ninth at 2’34″8, Simone Daprà 34th at 5’50″1, Davide Graz 38th at 6’14″8, Simone Mocellino 59th at 10’31″6 and Giacomo Gabrielli 67th at 14’36″1. Among the women, Karoline Simpson Larsen is the first to cross the finish line of the women’s Final Climb. The Norwegian took off in the final stages of the ascent. With her second success in the World Cup, Simpson Larsen completed the task in 37’05″3 to precede the American Jessica Diggins, who thus achieved her third personal victory in the general classification of the Tour de Ski ahead of the Austrian Teresa Stadlober (at 2’17) and Heidi Weng (at 2’31) who followed her in reverse order also in the finish line of the day. Complicated final stages of ascent for Caterina Ganz who collected the 22nd place at 2’40 from Simpson Larsen and slips to 17th place in the final ranking of the Tour, 38th place in the stage and 37th in the final for Martina Di Centa; however, Iris De Martin Pinter, Nicole Monsorno and Federica Cassol did not start for the last stage. The World Cup now takes a break and returns between 17 and 18 January in Oberhof with a free technique sprint and an individual 10 kilometre. in classical technique.

roll of honour

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Men: 2007 Angerer (Ger); 2008 Bauer (R.Cec), 2009 Cologna (Svi); 2010 Bauer (R.Cec); 2011-2012 Cologna (Svi); 2013 Legkov (Rus); 2014 Sundby (North); 2015 Sundby (doping ban, awarded to Northug, Nor), 2016 Sundby (North); 2017 Ustiugov (Rus); 2018 Cologna (Svi), 2019 Klaebo (Nor); 2020-2021 Bolshunov (Rus); 2022-2023 Klaebo (Nor); 2024 Amundsen (Nor); 2025-2026 Klaebo (North).

Women: 2007 Kuitunen (Fin); 2008 Kalla (Sve); 2009 Kuitunen (Fin); 2010-2011-2012-2013 Kowalczyk (Pol); 2014 Johaug (Nor); 2015 Bjoergen (Nor); 2016: Johaug (Nor); 2017-2018 Weng (Nor); 2019 Oestberg (North); 2020 Johaug (Nor); 2021 Diggins (USA); 2022 Neprayeva (Rus); 2023 Karlsson (Sve); 2024 Diggins (USA); 2025 Johaug (Nor), 2026 Diggins (USA).