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If yesterday had been a ranked list of the disappointments of the first half of the season in the women's biathlon, it would certainly be in the top three was placed Anastasiya Kuzmina, which in today's sprint in Antholz, however, is finally back in the neighborhoods of the standings after a long period of anonymity.
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The Slovak, always with great skiing talent, did not miss any target (unusual situation for her because in the first twelve races of the season gave a precision of 75% and did not close because a faultless race from December 2010) At the same time the most credible rivals have all embarked on the'' ring of penalties and consequently came the career victory number 4, the first since March 2011. It should be emphasized that the twenty-eight imported from Russia had obtained the'' single podium last season just in Antholz, the context of race obviously extremely welcome.
Piazza'' s honor for Kaisa Mäkäräinen 16 "7. Finland's paid dearly for a mistake in the polygon on the ground, just as Darya Domracheva third to 21" 9. The Belarusian can still smile looking at the overall standings of the World Cup where catching up on all direct opponents. Tora Berger fact he missed 3 targets well and did not go beyond the fourteenth position. Two errors by Andrea Henkel, twenty-fifth, while Miriam Gossner has experienced a disastrous day. The twenty-two Bavarian wrong 7 times and has not even qualified for the'' pursuit.
In the overall standings of the World Cup Berger remains the leader with 601 points, but Domracheva returns in second place with 491. Gossner is third at 471, fourth at 443 and Henkel Mäkäräinen dates back to fifth place with 417.
To save the German budget we thought Nadine Horchler, fifth, and the best result of his career. The twenty-six-Clubs tesserata for Willingen but transplanted to Bavaria was placed behind Olena Pidhrushna athlete that with all due respect to some occasional insiders is not some Russian and Ukrainian passport. Moreover, the twenty-six born in the territory of Poland would be the best house in Russia where the tips Vilukhina Olga and Olga Zaitseva, sixth and ninth, respectively, are well behaved, unlike the rest of the team. In this regard the return of Ekaterina Iourieva has certainly not been the happiest since the twenty-nine of Tchaikovsky was placed on novantaduesima novanove athletes reach the finish line.
Race to remember for the blue team. Karin Oberhofer has covered all targets and all'' was ranked eighth in doing so breached the top ten for the first time in his career. With this result the twenty-seven South Tyrol can now be defined for all purposes the third largest Italian biathlete of all time because over the years have gotten better results just Nathalie Santer and Michela Ponza. Quest'' last, returning after surgery, he ended the thirty-eighth place with an error to fire.
In any case, all the blue came into the points. Nicole Gontier confirms that it has considerable potential, and despite two penalty closed the twenty-seventh, just ahead of Dorothea Wierer, twenty-ninth with a missed target. Alexia Runggaldier (0 +1) concluded fortieth then picking up a punticino.
The result has historical significance because for the first time the Italian'' Piazza 5 athletes in the top 40 positions. Previously on two occasions 4 Italian athletes have closed in the top 40 (individual Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 -'' 11, 27 and four in pursuit of Hochfilzen 2011 - 12'' four in 31). Also in Antholz there were never more than three athletes in the top 40.
Tomorrow, at 14.30, will race the men. Next meeting for women on Saturday at 11.45 am when will stage the'' pursuit.
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