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Anastasiya Kuzmina has dominated the women's sprint Olympic Games in Sochi writing history. The twenty nine year old native of Tyumen, Russia, but naturalized Slovak marriage has become the first athlete in a position to successfully defend an Olympic title in the women's biathlon.
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Kuzmina fact it was already set in the throbbing sprint in Vancouver 2010. Today, however, its success has been very clear in that it has achieved the fourth best time on skis tight and covered all the targets, gaining authority with the second gold medal'' Five consecutive circles.
Moreover Anastasiya becomes the second woman to be able to win an Olympic gold in two different editions of the Games. '' So far, the company was able only to German Kati Wilhelm (sprint and pursuit 2002 2006).
If the victory was never in question, there has been rather great battle for the other medals. '' The silver went to Olga Vilukhina who then gave Russia the first lady of the house in the biathlon podium in Sochi 2014.
The twenty-five stationed in Novosibirsk, due in great shape by the technicians, paid 19 "9 to the winner and preceded by 1" 8 Life Semerenko, bronze. '' The Ukrainian hitherto used with the dropper in the World Cup due to repeated illness, it is confirmed woman from major events, winning the first Olympic podium after three world championship medals in the last three editions of the World Cup.
Today, many athletes have been forced to settle for a position after having flirted with the top-three. Among them two Italian. Karin Oberhofer and Dorothea Wierer, both perfect shooting as well as all the medalists, finished in fourth and sixth respectively paying 6 "2:08" 9 from bronze. For both it is the best result of his career. In the midst of the blue has slipped into the French Anais Bescond, the best among women with an error to fire.
Disappointed of the day favored the eve of poker, all mowed by one or more missed targets. It should be noted, however, that none of them would beat Kuzmina even with a perfect test shooting. An error has forced to the ground Darya Domracheva in ninth and tenth in Tora Berger.
Worse still they did Soukalova Gabriela and Kaisa Mäkäräinen, already cut out of the running for medals also'' s pursuit. The czech (3 +0) and Finnish (0 +2) were placed twenty-ninth and thirtieth respectively.
Also evidence of negative Olga Zaitseva, twenty-eighth with an error, and Marie Laure Brunet, even fifty-sixth despite having covered all the targets. In France goes home instead stressed the discrete seasonal debut of Marie Dorin Habert, twentieth.
Oberhofer and Wierer except for the Italian'' came the fifty-fourth faultless race in the career of Michela Ponza, thirty-eighth, and the qualification'' s pursuit of Nicole Gontier, despite fifty-four rounds of penalty.
SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - SPRINT women1. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (0 +0) 21'' 06 "82. VILUKHINA Olga [RUS] (0 +0) 19" 93. Semerenko Life [UKR] (0 +0) 21 "74. OBERHOFER Karin [ENG] (0 +0) 27" 95. BESCOND Anais [FRA] (0 +0) 29 "96. WIERER Dorothea [ENG] (0 +0) 30" 67. Nowakowska-ZEMNIAK Weronika [POL] (1 +0) 30 "88. GASPARIN Elisa [ON] (0 +0) 31" 49. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (1 +0) to 31 "810. BERGER Tora [NOR] (1 +0) to 33" 8Clicca here for full results.
The Olympic title chase women'' s will be awarded Tuesday, February 11 from 16.00 pm. Tomorrow, however, always at 16.00, will take place on the'' masculine pursuit.
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KUZMINA Anastasiya
VILUKHINA Olga
SEMERENKO Vita
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