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Kowalczyk and Cologna win cross-country sprints
Jan 21, 2012, 14:25 GMT
Otepaa, Estonia - Tour de Ski winners Justyna Kowalczyk and Dario Cologna won classic style sprint races in the cross-country skiing World Cup on Saturday.
Poland's Kowalczyk edged Norwegian World Cup leader Marit Bjoergen by one tenth of a second with her third season victory and 18th overall in 3 minutes 18.4 seconds. Natalia Matveeva of Russia placed third.
The men's race saw the Swiss World Cup leader Cologna on top in 3:29.8 minutes ahead of Norwegians Ola Vigen Hattestad and Eirik Brandsdal. Cologna now also has three wins this season, and seven overall.
The cross-country World Cup continues on Sunday in Otepaa with women's 10km and men's 15km races.
Saturday's Nordic skiing programme was also to see large hill ski-jumping in Zakopane, Poland, later in the day.
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