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Haecki and Hartweg impose themselves at the absolute level in the Oberhof Sprints, with national titles for Schneider and Horn. Fourth place for sappadina, who is confirmed in condition after the summer World Cup.
Saturday 3 September 2022 4 minutes reading time
A German summer biathlon championship that speaks ... Swiss, but also with a lot of blue in the Oberhof review which today saw the Sprint races take place with many protagonists of the next World Cup, while Dorothea Wierer is committed to the Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival.
The women's test saw Lena Haecki impose herself at an absolute level (without errors at the shooting range), with the Swiss who clearly beat the first of the Germans, the excellent Sophia Schneider (who had already imposed herself in the short individual on Friday), gold medal in front of Denise Herrmann, just ahead of Lisa Vittozzi fourth and confirmed, despite three shooting errors (like Herrmann), on the excellent levels already shown last weekend in Ruhpolding for the summer world championship.
Michela Carrara also did well (with two errors), third among foreigners and seventh overall, with the other German Fruehwirt and Weisensarter ahead of the Aosta Valley.
Discrete the tests of the many young blue who tested themselves in this event, from Rebecca Passler (foreign eighth) to Linda Zingerle, up to Hannah Auchentaller, Eleonora Fauner and Beatrice Trabucchi.
Red-cross hurray also among men, with Niklas Hartweg who took the victory in the overall classification of the Sprint, burning (despite a ground error) Philipp Horn by just under 5 seconds, while Simon Kaiser completes the podium and is silver at the level national team, with Dorfer completing the podium among the Germans.
Second among the foreigners and tenth overall a good Daniele Cappellari, who signed a double zero at the shooting range and finished just over a minute from Hartweg. The other blues: Patrick Braunhofer finished eighth in the ranking of foreigners, with two errors at the shooting range, ninth place for Tommaso Giacomel, who made five mistakes, and finally Cedric Christille, who finished the race at 1 'with a ground error. '48 ”just ahead of Didier Bionaz, 12th with three errors, Zingerle 15th, Fauner 18th, Leonesio 19th and Molinari 21st.
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