Anders Gloersen (NOR) wins the 46th Engadin Skimarathon!
A perfect winter day awaited the 13.000 skiers who started the 46th Engadin Skimarathon in Maloja. The elite skiers got udnerway at 8h30. And 1h 35min 5,2s later the race was already over – for the first one: Anders Gloersen from Norway!
As known from the Engadin Skimarathon, a big group stayed together until the end in which the leading ones were changing all the time. Only five kilomteres before the finish, Gloersen and Jean-Marc Gaillard (FRA) got a small lead which they could keep right into the finish. Everybody was on his maximum at this time, pushing as hard as possible to close the gap and to be the first one over the finish line if possible. In the end, over 40 athletes came into the finish within one minute. After the first two, just over two seconds behind, the big group came in with Toni Livers (SUI) being the lucky one to get his foot over the finish line first, just 0.1s before Romain Vandel from France. With the luck on his side, he could gain the third place.
As the fight for the overall FIS Marathon Cup was going on during the race as well, everybody looked in which places the first men of the overall – Tom Reichelt (GER), Benoit Chauvet (FRA) and Martin Koukal (CZE) – were arriving in the finish. In the end, it got more than tight: Benoit Chauvet finished seventh, Martin Koukal tenth and Tom Reichelt 13th. This result gave the overall victory to Tom Reichelt with only five little points advantage (228 points) to Chauvet and Koukal who have both 223 points to their account.
On the women’s side, the lead was changing a couple of times as well. In the end it was last year’s winner Riita-Liisa Roponen (FIN) who was the strongest. She finished first in front of Bettina Gruber (SUI) and Katrin Zeller (GER) who were both skiing together for most of the time and only in the last metres, the Swiss could manage to put her foot over the finish line first. The women were only three and a half minutes slower than the men – a very strong performance by all!
Tom Reichelt (GER) winner of the overall FIS Marathon Cup 2013/14, the same goes for Roponen!
With his 13th place today, Tom Reichelt (GER) could secure his lead in the overall FIS Marathon Cup and could gain his first overall victory in this cup. He finished the season with 228 points, only five points in front of Benoit Chauvet (FRA) and Martin Koukal (CZE) who have both 223 points. However, since Chauvet has had better results in the different races, he gains second place and Koukal third.
On the women’s side, Riita-Liisa Roponen (FIN) regains the lead in the overall FIS Marathon Cup from Antonelly Confortola (ITA) with her victory today. With three victories in three races, she wins the overall title with 300 points in front of the Italian Confortola who is in second with 236 points. Seraina Boner (SUI), today’s sixth, places third with 200 points.
The complete result list from today’s race & the actual overall FIS Marathon Cup standing:
https://www.worldloppet.com/fmcresults.php
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