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The last stage of Ibu Cup Otepää came alive with sprint. As usual Russia has dominated far and wide and in the men closed the discussion on the general classification, as well as the specialty cup.
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Among men the victory went the big favorite Alexander Loginov, it imposed for the seventh time this season in the cadet circuit. The twenty-five Russian missed a target in feet, but thanks to the best time of day to the close skiing was still able to excel.
However those who make party Alexey Volkov. Thanks to perfection at the shooting range and a good step in the fund, the now twenty-nine Siberian stood the place of honor, mathematically closing the absolute IBU Cup race and the sprint of the specialty rankings having already put its hands on ranking dedicated pursuit. Translated, he missed only 20 km on the Cup, went right to Loginov.
The podium was completed by the Norwegian Henrik L'Abee-Lund, back from the trip to the World Cup Pyeongchang.
Chapter Italy. Thierry Chenal (1 + 1) was the only one to make entry into the points, finishing 38th. Further back Rudy Zini (1 + 0) and Maikol Demetz (0 + 1), respectively, 54 ° and 56 °.
Otepaa - SPRINT MEN 1. The LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (0 + 1) 25'14 "2. 0 VOLKOV Alexey [RUS] (0 + 0) 12" 4 3. The ABEE-LUND Henrik [NOR] ( 0 + 1) to 27 "9 4. GUIGONNAT Antonin [FRA] (0 + 0) 29" 9 5. Skjelvik Kristoffer [NOR] (0 + 1) to 31 "0 6. GJESBAKK Fredrik [NOR] (0+ 1) 35 "8 7. HORN Philipp [GER] (0 + 0) 39" 4 8. POVARNITSYN Alexander [RUS] (0 + 1) to 40 "4 9. MAKHAMBETOV Timur [RUS] (0 + 0) 42 "1 10. HOMBERG Niklas [GER] (0 + 1) to 51" 9
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Wonderful balance in the women's field, evidenced by the fact that the first seven have been enclosed in the barrage of 17 "8. Finally he won the day the expert Anastasia Zagoruiko, author of a failure to throw and the second time of the day on skis. All opposing able to keep his pace in the fund have erred seriously, so for the Russian twenty-eight year came the first successful cadet season.
place of honor for the much younger Austrian Julia Schwaiger, the best result of his career in Ibu Cup. The twenty-one of Saalfelden was perfect on the shooting range, but has had to bow to Zagoruiko 5 "8. On balance the Salzburg prevented a hat-trick of Russia since Anna Nikulina finished third at 7 "0 and the increasingly convincing junior Valeriia Vasnetcova fourth at 11" 6, with a penalty.
Nicole Gontier, only blue committed, missed five times the pitch (2 + 3) and concluded quarantassettesima, out of the points.
The competition marked the return in the race, even at the individual level, two athletes still emblazoned long. In particular Ukraine's Vita Semerenko, returned to work after three-year break, finished ninth without penalty. It has also revised the Polish Weronika Nowakowska, absent since last March, piazzatasi twenty-eighth with two errors. The pitch is far from the one of the best days, but somewhere one has to (re) start.
With the contumacious Daria Virolaynen already mathematically won absolute IBU Cup (and the pursuit specialty rankings) and Germany's Karolin Horchler impostasi in dedicated ranking to 15 km, it remains to assign only the specialties of the sprint Cup. In this sense Nikulina, with third place today, she should have her locked in his favor (always claw aforementioned Virolaynen not present Saturday in the sprint-bis. Unlikely hypothesis).
Otepaa - SPRINT WOMEN 1. The ZAGORUIKO Anastasia [RUS] (0 + 1) 22'09 "7 2. SCHWAIGER Julia [AUT] (0 + 0) to 5" 8 3. Nikulina Anna [RUS] (0 + 0) 7 "0 4. VASNETCOVA Valeriia [RUS] (1 + 0) 11" 6 5. ERDAL Karolin [NOR] (0 + 0) 16 "6 6. Innerhofer Katharina [AUT] (0 + 2) 17 "2 7. ALIFIRAVETS Olga [SWE] (0 + 1) to 17" 8 8. ALIMBEKAVA Dzinara [BLR] (0 + 1) to 29 "3 9. Vita Semerenko [UKR] (0 + 0) 29" 7 10. ZHURAVOK Yuliia [RUS] (0 + 0) 31 "7
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A Otep Loginov wins the race, but the 'Ibu General Cup goes to Volkov
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Biathlon - Ibu Cup
A Otep Loginov wins the race, but the 'Ibu General Cup goes to Volkov
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