Biathlon
In the last 6 years, the Women's World Cup biathlon has always decided'' s last stop, but often it was the final race of the season to give the crystal ball ending in dramatic duels to the wire. , In this 2012-13 instead fight for the general classification was decided with two stages and five races to spare.
Sunday 10 March 2013 4 minutes reading time
Tora Berger has indeed won the first World Cup of his career suddenly even in the mass start at Holmenkollen having already triumphed in the sprint and pursuit in''.'' The Norwegian now thirty-two, now at an altitude of 27 wins, took the command of the operations already at the beginning of the third lap, but after three polygons cleaned missed 2 targets in the final shot allowing Anastasiya Kuzmina (0 +2 +0 +0) returning it. The Scandinavian has, however, got the better of Slovak in the final round and sealed the conquest of Crystal ball with the'' triumph eleventh season.
Tora Berger has therefore become the fourth athlete in history to have completed the Triple Crown of biathlon (win overall World Cup, Olympic gold medalist and world champion gold) after Kati Wilhelm, Andrea Henkel and Magdalena Neuner.
Kuzmina finished second to take third podium in three days, while the third place went to Darya Domracheva (0 +1 +2 +0) managed to climb over the French Anais Bescond (0 +0 +0 +0), fourth and the best ever result in the final lap. Fifth and sixth place for the Ukrainian Olena Pidhrushna (0 +0 +0 +0) and Life Semerenko (0 +0 +0 +2). Quest'' last is the big disappointment of the day as it came in second place, and with the margin, where he'' s last polygon however wrong twice.
Home Italy you can celebrate seventh place Karin Oberhofer (0 +0 +1 +0) which was right in the sprint Kaisa Mäkäräinen (1 +1 +0 +2). For the twenty-seven of Velturno seventh place is the best finish in the World Cup of his career. Michela Ponza (0 +0 +1 +1) has closed the twenty-fifth.
Berger also has mortgaged the specialty of the mass start. On March 17 in Khanty-Mansiysk to just finish the race to get their hands on the small crystal ball.
Next week there will be a pre-Olympic stage on the slopes of Sochi, Russia. Thursday, March 7 at 12:15 pm Italian program in the women's individual''.
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