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SPORTS Monday 12 March 2018

Ethiopia’s Assefa Marc Soler upsets Simon Yates

wins Nagoya to win Paris-Nice by 4 seconds

Women’s Marathon NICE, France (AP) — Marc

Soler of Spain won the
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — weeklong Paris-Nice race
Meskerem Assefa of Ethio- after dislodging overnight
pia pulled ahead of favor- leader Simon Yates of Brit-
ite Valary Jemeli of Kenya ain with a successful attack
with four kilometers left to in the final stage on Sun-
win the Nagoya Women’s day.
Marathon on Sunday. Soler, who rides for Movistar
Assefa won in a time of 2 and trailed his British rival
hours, 21 minutes and 45 by 37 seconds ahead of
seconds, one minute and the eighth and final stage
three seconds ahead of in the Nice hinterland,
Jemeli. Japan’s Hanami claimed his biggest career
Sekine, making her mara- win by just four seconds.
thon debut, was third with “It’s really a dream come Winner of the Paris-Nice cycling race, Marc Soler of Spain,
celebrates on the podium in Nice, southeastern France, Sunday,
a time of 2:23:07. true to win Paris-Nice and March 11, 2018.
Assefa pulled even with add my name to the win- Associated Press
Jemeli at the 38-kilome- ners’ list next to some of race with more than 40 ki- ed at the back and the trio
ter mark and was unchal- Meskerem Assefa of Ethiopia the greats of cycling,” Soler lometers left on the first cat- built a maximum lead of
crosses the finish line, winning
lenged over the closing Nagoya Women’s Marathon said. egory Cote de Peille — one 1 minute and 30 seconds.
kilometers to take two and in Nagoya, central Japan, “I’m progressing each year of the six climbs making up Soler collected bonus sec-
a half minutes off her per- Sunday, March 11, 2018. and I’m getting used to the 110-kilometer stage — onds in the second inter-
sonal best time. Associated Press ride at that level. I’m pro- with fellow Spaniards Da- mediate sprint at La Turbie
With 21,915 female runners, goya race is the world’s gressing step by step.” vid De La Cruz and Omar before Fraile unsuccessfully
2,058 more runners than largest all-female mara- The 24-year-old Soler Fraile. tried to go solo in the de-
the previous year, the Na- thon event.q moved to the front of the Yates found himself isolat- scent of Col d’Eze. q

Patrick Roest takes allround world Yates wins 5th stage with solo,

title after Pedersen fall Kwiatkowski moves into lead

AMSTERDAM (AP) — In est. Pedersen, who won an FILOTTRANO, Italy (AP) —
Adam Yates soloed to vic-
a stunning finish to the After the race, Pedersen Olympic gold medal in the
speedskating Allround sat at the side of the oval team pursuit last month, tory in the fifth stage of the
Tirreno-Adriatico race on
World Championships, with his head in his hands appeared to have set up
Dutchman Patrick Roest as Kramer gave him a con- victory with a win in the Sunday, while Michal Kwi-
atkowski finished third to
won the title Sunday after soling pat on the back. 1,500, crossing in 1 min-
Sverre Lunde Pedersen of “I am almost never falling,” ute, 48.33 seconds. Kramer take the overall lead with
just two stages remaining.
Norway fell in the closing Pedersen said. “I don’t could only manage 5th
10,000-meter race as he know what to say.” place, more than two sec- Yates attacked with about
four kilometers remaining of
was on track for a con- In a changing of the onds behind. That result
vincing overall victory. guard, Pedersen’s fall meant that Kramer had to the hilly 178-kilometer (110-
mile) route from Castelrai-
Pedersen picked himself handed the allround title beat the 25-year-old Nor-
up off the ice at the tem- to Roest, Kramer’s 22-year- wegian by more than 16 mondo to Michele Scarpo-
ni’s hometown of Filottrano
porary, outdoor oval at old teammate and train- seconds in a head-to-head
Amsterdam’s Olympic Sta- ing partner. battle in the final pairing of — and no one could catch
him. The British rider crossed
dium and still managed to “I can’t believe it,” Ro- the closing 10,000. Britain’s Adam Yates
celebrates as he crosses the
come back to beat nine- est said. “Of course it’s Roest was some eight sec- the line seven seconds finish line to win the 5th stage of
ahead of Peter Sagan and
time allround champion a shame that Sverre fell. onds behind Pedersen the Tirreno-Adriatico cycling
Sven Kramer in their head- You wouldn’t wish that on ahead of the 10,000. Kwiatkowski. race, from Castelraimondo
“In climbs like this, you just
to-head battle to finish him. But it’s very cool to be On Saturday, Roest won to Filottrano, Italy, Sunday,
second overall. world champion allround.” the opening 500 in 36.97 go hard and give as much March 11, 2018.
as you can,” Yates said.
But he lost so much time Dutchman Marcel Bo- and Pedersen edged Associated Press
that a title that was his for sker took third place in Kramer in the 5,000, win- “I tried to attack after my to attack. It fell into place.
teammates
positioned I don’t have a sprint to
the taking slipped through the overall standings and ning in 6 minutes, 33.81
his fingers and went to Ro- Kramer finished fourth. seconds.q me well at the bottom of beat Sagan, I had to go
the hill. All I could do was away.”q