Biathlon: the Mixed Relay speaks Norwegian, Italy seventh

Ingrid Tandrevold ed Eirik Bratli vincono le individuali dei campionati nazionali norvegesi
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Biathlon: the Mixed Relay speaks Norwegian, Italy seventh

The first mixed relay of the season, the only one to precede the Olympic event which will be played in reversed stages, is the prerogative of Norway which precedes a good Belarus and France.

In the launch phase Tarje Boe (0 + 2) and the Russian Tsvetkov (0 + 2) take command of the operations gaining a conspicuous advantage of more than 15 seconds over Labastau (0 + 1) and the German Roman Rees (0 + 1 ). Around half a minute, Seppala (0 + 1), Guigonnat (0 + 1), Bormolini (0 + 4) arrive at the first change. Sweden jumped with a disastrous Samuelsson (2 + 4) in the standing session after only reloading the first polygon. It is Johannes Boe (0 + 2) who splits the race as usual by building an important advantage which at mid-race is 36 seconds over the Belarusian Smolski (0 + 0) and 49 seconds over Doll (0 + 3) Fourth at the exchange rate is Povarnitsyn (0 + 2) at 1.05.3, along with Windisch (0 + 2) and Hiidensalo (0 + 0). Almost a minute and a half away Desthieux (0 + 2) while Ponsiluoma ((0 + 1) brings Sweden back to two minutes behind the leaders. In the third fraction Tandrevold (0 + 1) keeps the advantage over Alimbekava (0 + 1) who is 25 seconds away; a good Dorothea Wierer (0 + 3) brings Italy in third position at 1.29.2 to fight for the podium with Hinz (0 + 1), Kazakevich (0 + 2), the Czech Republic (0 + 7) and Anais Bescond (0 + 3), all within six seconds. In the last fraction Hanna Sola is forcing, putting pressure on Roeiseland but with the 5/5 on the ground the Norwegian settles things in the face of a refill of the Belarusian. Behind a recharge for all, two for Simon with five teams that continue to compete for the podium. Roeiseland (0 + 1) closes it, leading Norway (0 + 6) to victory over Belarus (0 + 5 after the three recharges of Sola) with 23.1 seconds of advantage; for the third place Julia Simon (0 + 5) France (0 + 11) at 2.01.3 who resist the imperious return of Elvira Oeberg who manages to bring Sweden (3 + 10) in fourth position. Fifth Russia (0 + 9), sixth Germany (0 + 6) while Lisa Vittozzi (0 + 4) gives in on skis and closes seventh at 2.43.1
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