BiathlonBiathlon - 10 years ago
After a weekend gap, the World Cup biathlon 10 years ago returns with the long stage in Hochfilzen that begins even Wednesdays & Igrave ;. On 7 December 2005 the dispute & rsquo; women's individual whose epilogue & egrave; really meaningful.
Monday 7 December 2015 12 minutes reading time
From the starting list two names missing weight. Do not take off Svetlana Ishmouratova and Linda Tj ø rhom. On the other hand, into the house Russia, he makes his season debut Albina Akhatova, absent & Öland; stersund.
Regarding & rsquo; starting order is known as have several favorite pectoral very high. That day on the Tyrol snows copiously and c & rsquo; & egrave; great uncertainty about what is the best strategy to use.
Between the superpowers as Germany and France refer to their big in the second group, while Russia and Norway are opting to wait further and start their own women to rush down. The same choice is made by Sweden, while Belarus and Slovenia decided to deploy the best cards in the early stages of the race.
With hindsight the winning tactic will prove & agrave; to start the pi & ugrave; late as possible because the intensity of snowfall decreases progressively & agrave; and the track, wiping, it becomes less demanding thanks to repeated passages of the athletes.
In late afternoon a horde, which complicates things you put even a wind dancer, comes a very meaningful result. & Nbsp; In fact, the success is won by Anna Carin Olofsson, who gets his maiden victory at age 32 played.
D & rsquo; moreover, the Swede has shouldered the rifle only in ripe old age & agrave ;, after exhausting every velleit & agrave; cross-country skiing. The Scandinavian had already & agrave; It proved to be an increase in & rsquo; & rsquo winter 2004-; 05. Nine months earlier, curiously just on the slopes of Hochfilzen, he had won the & rsquo; silver champion's mass start. Today the same plant & egrave; instead the scene of his first victory.
Olofsson proves simply unplayable on narrow skis, thanks to a particularly apt choice of materials, and in addition to inflicting heavy detachments to the opponent & egrave; very good at not getting lost d & rsquo; mood after missing a target both the first and the second polygon. & nbsp; L & rsquo; athlete Sveg closes clean the third and fourth session, winning with authority & agrave ;.
His statement & egrave; Since particularly significant & eacute; & Egrave; the first to Sweden after the withdrawal of Magdalena Forsberg and entrenches the return of the Three Crowns at the top of the women's biathlon.
Piazza d & rsquo; honor, more than 40 & rdquo; the winner, Olga Zaitseva. The twenty-seven Moscow, gi & agrave; very perky in & Öland; stersund, confirms that it is in great form and thanks to a very solid performance finishes second, only between one hundred and eleven starters, to contain the delay by Olofsson below the minute and a half.
Third place & egrave; prerogative of & rsquo; fickle Natalia Guseva, thanks to their skills and a series of favorable circumstances. The Russian, as well as being equipped with a high bib, is reached during the competition from Yuxia Hou, very powerful girl on skis tight (although with obvious limitations to the polygon), of which twenty-three in St. Petersburg can keep queues in the last 6 km.
Guseva, benefiting from the very strong pace of & rsquo; unexpected ally of China and finding a non-trivial zero & Outdoors; last polygon, it deals over 20 & rdquo; Sandrine Bailly in the final round to take the step andandosi pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium and mocking the French, relegated to a & rsquo; trifle in fourth place.
L & rsquo; Asian, the accuracy of which struggle to reach 60%, that day covers 17 targets instead of 20 and concludes fifth getting by far the best result of his career. Make the most of the particular weather situation also Zdenka Vejnarova Czech and Slovak Marcela Pavkocenkova that, thanks to a perfect performance, or almost to the shooting, the next to finish seventh and eighth. They never had and never got more & ugrave; They will get a placement cos & Igrave; noble.
Russia completes a wonderful team performance by placing Anna Bogaly-Titovets ninth and Olga Pyleva in recovery after the poor performance & Öland; stersund tenth.
Day defeat of Germany. In the German team the best & egrave; Martina Glagow, sixth, while Kati Wilhelm and Uschi Disl & ndash; although proving very competitive in the fund & ndash; They make mistakes too and end in the sixteenth and seventeenth place. The thirty-five Bavarian however also lose the yellow bib.
Liv Grete Poir & eacute; and raises its performance on narrow skis, but five errors relegate to the twenty-third place. Home to Norway & ograve; the Woman of the Year & egrave; The eighteen year old Julie Bonnevie-Svendsen's surprise concludes fifteenth. Given the young et & agrave; This result seems to announce the & rsquo; beginning of a brilliant career. In the following years the event will go to & ograve; in a manner quite different.
Among other big Olena Zubrilova he concludes eleventh, while the Slovenian as well comportatesi a & Öland; stersund disappear from radar screens. & Nbsp;
For the & rsquo; Italy a race to forget Because & eacute; all blue remain very far from the points. The best & egrave; Saskia Santer (3 + 0 + 0 + 1), forty-second. The older sister Nathalie (0 + 4 + 1 + 1) concludes fifty-fifth, Katja Haller (1 + 0 + 0 + 2) Fifty-eighth, Maryke Ciaramidaro (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) and a sixty-off Michela Ponza (1 + 0 + 3 + 0) seventieth.
Olga Zaitseva leaps to head the overall standings with 133 points, chased by Sandrine Bailly at 117. displ & egrave; slipped to third place with 104, ahead of Glagow (90) and Olofsson (87).
POS
|
ATHLETE
|
NAT
|
SHOOTING
|
TIME
1
|
ZIDEK Anna Carin
|
SWE
|
1 + 1 + 0 + 0
|
49: 06.3
2
|
Olga Zaitseva
|
RUS
|
1 + 0 + 0 + 0
|
+40.6
3
|
Natalia Sorokina
|
RUS
|
1 + 1 + 0 + 0
|
+1: 45.7
4
|
BAILLY Sandrine
|
FRA
|
0 + 1 + 1 + 0
|
+1: 48.7
5
|
HOU Yuxia
|
CHN
|
1 + 2 + 0 + 0
|
+1: 58.3
6
|
BECK Martina
|
GER
|
0 + 1 + 1 + 0
|
+2: 29.4
7
|
VEJNAROVA Zdenka
|
CZE
|
0 + 1 + 0 + 0
|
+2: 33.8
8
|
PAVKOVCEKOVA Marcela
|
SVK
|
0 + 0 + 0 + 0
|
+2: 40.8
9
|
BOGALIY-Titovets Anna
|
RUS
|
0 + 0 + 0 + 1
|
+3: 05.4
10
|
MEDVEDTSEVA Olga
|
RUS
|
0 + 1 + 0 + 1
|
+3: 14.6
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The women will be back on track for the sprint on December 9, while the & rsquo; & 8 will agrave; the turn of & rsquo; individual male.
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