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TURIN, February 12 (RIA Novosti) - Yevgeny Dementyev of Russia won the men's 30-km pursuit race in the cross-country skiing at the Turin Winter Olympics Sunday.
The silver medal went to Frode Estil of Norway (0.6 seconds behind Dementyev) and Pietro Piller Cottrer of Italy took the bronze.
Giorgio Di Centa of Italy who led the race several hundred meters before the finish came in fourth.
Dementyev won the first gold medal for the Russian team in Turin. Earlier, Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova of Russia won the bronze medal in the women's 15-kilometer pursuit.
