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The specialty Cups go to the Russians Alexey Volkov and Anna Nikulina; Tomorrow ends with Single Mixed Relay and Mixed Relay.
Saturday 11 March 2017 6 minutes reading time
The French Enora Latuilliere scored his first win in cadet circuit by winning the second Sprint final of Otepaa the IBU CUP.
The twenty-four of Chamonix, the match with the start number 7, is in the lead at each intermediate survey, the first top-meter, thanks to the second fastest time on skis which allows it to be free as well so the 'only mistake at the polygon feet.
Latuilliere precedes her compatriot Julia Simon is 45 seconds slower than his compatriot and fails to take advantage of the 100% in a shot to get on the highest step of the podium by closing the test in 4 seconds.
On a day the little selective polygon to make a difference is the speed in the fund is the third Russian Anna Nikulina (0 + 0), fourth German Anna Weidel (0 + 0), fifth Russian Ekaterina Moshkova (0 + 0) .
Nicole Gontier enters the second polygon occupying the second position with 28.8 "by Latuilliere but two errors make it slipping to twelfth place at 1:14 behind the winner.
The IBU Cup Sprint was won by Anna Nikulina which closes 379 points ahead of compatriot Virolaynen (298) and Karolin Horchler (276). Nicole Gontier is tenth with 194 points.
Otepaa - FEMALE SPRINT
1. LATUILLIERE Enora [FRA] (0 + 1) in 23:17:42. SIMON Julia [FRA] (0 + 0) in 4:33. Nikulina Anna [RUS] (0 + 0) at 13.44. Weidel Anna [GER] (0 + 0) at 18.05. Moshkova Ekaterina [RUS] (0 + 0) at 23.86. Horchler Karolin [GER] (0 + 0) at 24.67. ALIMBEKAVA Dzinara [BLR] (0 + 0) at 38.38. ZHURAKOV Yuliya [UKR] (0 + 0) at 55.89. ALIFIRAVETS Olga [SWE] (1 + 0) in 1.01.510. Helene Therese Hendel [GER] (0 + 0) to 1.04.2
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In the men comes the 'eighth win of the season for Alexander Loginov who had already imposed Thursday in the first sprint of the final stage. The Russian won despite the burden of a polygon error proving once again among the fastest on skis between the IBU Cup circuit goers.
Loginov inflicts 14 seconds gap to the Norwegian Henrik L' 'Abee-Lund for which, with only one error in feet, is insufficient for the third time on skis to overcome the Russian; the third step of the podium for the Swiss Martin Jaeger (0 + 2) which closes at 21 seconds behind the winner and precedes the Norwegian Gjesbakk (0 + 0), and the Russians Shopin (0 + 0) and Makhambetov (0 + 0).
The best of the Italians is Thierry Chenal (1 + 0), thirty-fifth in 2.00.9; fifty-third in 3.15.9 Rudy Zini (3 + 0), the sixtieth Maikol Demetz (0 + 2)
The Sprint World Cup had already been won by Alexey Volkov Thursday that, in the race today, closing at 370 points. Second position at an altitude of 331 to Loginov, the Norwegian Gjesbakk third with 240 points as the Guigonnat French.
Otepaa - MALE SPRINT
1. LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (1 + 1) on 28.00.92. The 'ABEE LUND Henrik [NOR] (0 + 1) at 14:33. JAEGER Martin [ON] (0 + 2) at 21:24. GJESBAKK Fredrik [NOR] (0 + 0) at 27.75. Shopin Yury [RUS] (0 + 0) at 29.66. MAKHAMBETOV Timur [RUS] (0 + 0) at 30.67. ZOBEL David [GER] (0 + 0) at 36.88. Skjelvik Kristoffer [NOR] (0 + 1) at 51.59. Arwidson Tobias [SWE] (0 + 0) to 55,710. KLETCHEROV Michail [BUL] (0 + 0) to 1.01.2
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