Biathlon: Italy wins bronze in the Youth men's relay

Biathlon: l'Italia conquista il bronzo nella staffetta maschile Youth
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Mirco Romanin

BiathlonJunior World Championships

Biathlon: Italy wins bronze in the Youth men's relay

This morning at the World Youth Championships in Osrblie (Svk) came the first medal for Italy. In fact, Iacopo Leonesio, Tommaso Giacomel and Didier Bionaz closed the 3x7.5 km relay in the Youth category in third place.

The gold medal went to Germany that dominated the race, trimming a good 40 "to Slovenia, second on the finish line.The Germans, who remained hooked to the top positions since the start, then firmly took the lead of the race in the second fraction, at the end of which they passed with 46 "on the competition. Behind instead the Slovenian Cisar, the blue Bionaz and the Kazakh Kireyev have played the remaining podium positions in the sprint. The 'mvp in Italy home was Tommaso Giacomel, who after receiving the change from Leonesio in 16th square, has risen up to the 3rd, after using two refills, evenly divided between series on the ground and standing. Behind Kazakhstan 4th have closed Ukraine 5a and Norway 6th. Russia 8a and France 10a are behind. The complete result. The women's 3x6 km was won by Norway, in competition with Bakken-Moeller-De Besche. The Scandinavians, after using only three refills, preceded by 17 "the Germans Spark-Braun-Hermann (0 + 3) and 1''25" France (0 + 6). Poland is over at the foot of the podium. Sixth place for Italy: the blue Hannah Auchentaller, Rebecca Passler and Beatrice Trabucchi have made ten shooting mistakes and finished 2''22 "from the winning nation. The complete result. Tomorrow the youth world program will continue with the junior category teams. At 11 o'clock the men's trial will start, at 2.30 pm the female one.
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