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A Otepää (Estonia) the 'last Ibu Cup stage opened with mixed evidence that, after two sprints (Thursday and Saturday) will be replicated again on Sunday.
Wednesday 8 March 2017 6 minutes reading time
Scandinavian-two in the test in pairs. The victory went of Norway, made up of Thekla Brun-Lie and Martin Femsteinevik. The affirmation key norge tandem has been to be able to avoid any penalty in the ring passage. The two have in fact gradually gained the upper hand over their opponents in the second half of the race, winning at last in fluency.
place of honor for Sweden, formed by Ingela Andersson and Tobias Arwidson. The race to the first position has been compromised by a double turn at standing shooting the second female fraction, but at least the second place has never been questioned.
The podium was completed by Germany, represented by Anna Weidel and Dominic Reiter. The Germans sailed one made of many ups and downs, however, enough to harpoon the third place.
Only fourth Russia, with Alexey Volkov unusually imprecise standing (well 3 laps for a total penalty). Decima Italy, presented itself at the start with Nicole Gontier and Thierry Chenal. A difficult test at the shooting range for the Blues, who ultimately have at least managed to finish in the top ten after a long sailed in the rear.
Otepaa - SINGLE MIXED I 1. NORWAY [Brun-Lie, Femsteinevik] (0 + 11) 38'53 "2. 2 SWEDEN [Andersson, Arwidson] (2 + 14) to 24" 8 3. GERMANY [Weidel, Reiter] (1 + 11) at 50 "3 4. RUSSIA [Shesterikova, Volkov] (3 + 13) in 1'18" 5 5. AUSTRIA [Innerhofer, Komatz] (4 + 16) in 1'23 "8
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 In the medley relay there was a long struggle to four, with several runners of the countries striving for success in continuous exchange positions in a constant shuffling of positions.
Finally it revealed the strength of Germany, able to avoid the ominous ring and to establish itself at the distance. In the German quartet shone especially Karolin Horchler to launch and Matthias Dorfer in the third fraction. It is also distinct David Zobel closing, while he struggled more than companions Marion Deigentesch.
Place of honor for Norway, a long queue in the squad of suitors to success, but finally managed to close second thanks to the misfortunes of others. To underline especially the performance of Fredrik Gjesbakk in the final fraction, however Karoline Erdal, Sigrid Neraasen and Sindre Pettersen have certainly not disfigured.
Third place went to Ukraine. For the first time in three years he is back in action Vita Semerenko, the launch of which was on the level of that of Karolin Horchler. Iana Bondar and Andriy Dotsenko excellent performances, but a penalty turn at the feet of Ruslan Tkalenko prevented the Ukrainian team to strive for success. Tkalenko least the same has been able to defend the podium in the sprint of Kirill Streltsov, last fractionist of Russia (fourth) presented itself with a very young formation.
Absent Italy, as trivially lacked the athletes needed to compete in the competition.
Otepaa - MIXED RELAY 1. The GER [Horchler K., Deigentesch, Dorfer, Zobel] (0 + 7) 1: 14'34 "6 2. NOR [Erdal, Neraasen, Pettersen, Gjesbakk] (1 + 6) 20 "8 3. UKR [There Semerenko, Bondar, Dotsenko, Tkalenko] (1 + 12) at 39" 9 4. RUS [Moshkova, Vasnetcova, Malinovskii, Streltsov] (1 + 11) at 40 "4 5. FRA [Chevalier C., Latuilliere, Begue, Guigonnat] (0 + 15) in 2'46 "0
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 Tomorrow, the program continues with two sprint.
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