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The roller ski biathlon World Cup in Forni Avoltri ended with pursuits where, except for the men's race, no athlete Italian took off.
Sunday 21 July 2013 9 minutes reading time
This is because the blues are veterans of several weeks of hard training and have plans for further withdrawals soon. Therefore, in the light of very low specific gravity of the event it is preferred to avoid too much effort close together in the middle of summer, focusing on the more important preparation for winter.
Only the pursuit male Italians saw at the start. The competition has lived on the duel between Lukas Hofer and Klemen Bauer which wiped out the delay of 46 "which started shooting better in the shooting sessions on the ground.
Slovenian and South Tyrolean then have made the race until the last couple of polygon where both have missed a target. Hofer, quicker in releasing the shots, came out with 9 "lead, but could not do anything against the twenty-seven of Ihan in the final lap.
Bauer in fact held an unsustainable rate on roller skis and won the gold medal with silver Hofer. The bronze went to another Italian, or Markus Windisch, deservedly climbed on the podium thanks to an excellent performance on the range. In the blue team Peter Dutton finished fourth and tenth Dominik Windisch.
TRACKING MASCHILE1. Klemen Bauer [SLO] (1 +0 +1 +1) 34'29 "72. HOFER Lukas [ENG] (2 +1 +1 +1) to 9" 43. WINDSICH Markus [ENG] (0 +1 +0 +0) to 11 "24. DUTTO Peter [ENG] (2 +2 +1 +1) in 1'13" 15. PETROVIC Milanko [SRB] (1 +2 +1 +1) in 1'44 "86. PROKUNIN Andrei [RUS] (1 +0 +2 +2) to 1'56" 10.1. WINDISCH Dominik [ENG] (1 +0 +4 +3) to 3'46 "4
In default of the Italian female pursuit has turned into a real parade Jitka Landová. The Czech won an absolute fluency in the gold medal competing in a race in which a part has come to have an advantage of up to 4 minutes (!) Sull'avversaria closer.
The fight for the other two places on the podium included four athletes. Silver has been the prerogative of the Russian Anna Boulygina, managed to take the place of honor thanks to a last polygon error free. The bronze went to Spain instead Victoria Padial Hernandez, a total of more precise direct opponents.
Disappointed day of the Russian Irina Trusova, fourth, and Norway's Jori Mørkve, fifth, left high and dry after fighting for the medals.
TRACKING FEMALE 1. Landová Jitka [CZE] (0 +1 +0 +3) 32'07 "12. BOULYGINA Anna [RUS] (1 +2 +2 +0) in 2'34" 33. Victoria Padial HERNANDEZ [ESP] (2 +0 +1 +1) in 3'02 "14. Trusova Irina [RUS] (3 +1 +0 +2) in 3'33" 75. MØRKVE Jori [NOR] (1 +2 +2 +3) in 4'25 "36. Tomešová Barbora [CZE] (1 +0 +2 +2) to 4'47" 1
In the morning they played the competitions for athletes in the junior age. In the women's sisters Fialkova departed with great margin on all opponents and have turned the competition into a family affair.
Paulina, despite the minute margin of Ivona, has been reached by the latter after messed exceedingly to the second polygon. The two sisters have come together with the final shooting session where greater resolved in his favor the contest thanks to a zero.
It should be reported as both Slovak have achieved a better time to Anna Boulygina, then they would both get on the podium behind Landová in the senior race.
In the run up to the bronze Russian Kristina Ilchenko pulled off the direct competitors since the second polygon and has maintained without worries position to the finish.
PURSUIT JUNIOR FEMALE 1. Fialkova Paulina [SVK] (1 +2 +3 +0) 33'20 "62. Fialkova Ivona [SVK] (1 +0 +2 +2) in 1'12" 43. Ilchenko Kristina [RUS] (1 +0 +2 +3) in 1'56 "04. BADANINA Elena [RUS] (2 +0 +0 +0) in 2'39" 55. Shalaeva Natalia [RUS] (0 +3 +1 +3) to 2'48 "06. DMITRIEVA Olga [RUS] (3 +0 +1 +2) to 3'11" 8To regarding the men's competition for the fight medals covered only the three athletes already on the podium in the sprint and Tomas Vojik had no particular problems in repeat the success on Saturday.
The Czech has taken over Dino Butkovic the second polygon and has commanded the operation until the finish line where he deservedly won the second gold of the event.
The silver went to the Bulgarian Dimitar Gerdzhikov who has had the better of the aforementioned Butkovic the final shooting session. The Croatian has in any case collected the bronze medal.
PURSUIT JUNIOR MEN 1. VOJIK Tomas [CZE] (1 +0 +0 +3) 37'07 "42. Gerdzhikov Dimitar [BUL] (1 +0 +1 +1) to 28" 73. Butkovic Dino [CRO] (1 +2 +1 +2) 59 "04. SINAPOV Anton [BUL] (2 +0 +2 +2) in 1'55" 65. Dovžan Miha [SLO] (2 +2 +0 +2) in 2'16 "76. SVOTIN Anton [RUS] (0 +1 +0 +1) to 2'31" 6
There are no other official international competitions in biathlon roller ski, however, in August there will be the richest event in Sandnes (Norway) and Püttlingen (Germany). So in September will take place the various national championships. MEDAL FINAL OVENS AVOLTRI 2013 SENIOR2 ITALIA1-2-2-1-0-1-0 REP.CECA1 RUSSIA 1-0-1 Slovenia0 Slovakia0-1-1-0-1 SPAIN
MEDALS FINAL FURNACES AVOLTRI 2013 JUNIOR 2-2-0 Slovakia2-1-0-REP.CECA1 0-2 Russia0 Bulgaria0-1-1-1-1-0-1 Croatia0 ITALY
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