Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer at the start of the World Team Challenge Gelsenkirchen

Dorothea Wierer e Lukas Hofer al via del World Team Challenge di Gelsenkirchen
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Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer at the start of the World Team Challenge Gelsenkirchen

Day after day the organizers of the World Team Challenge, now traditional Christmas performance, are revealing the couples taking part all''evento. Among them also the one formed by Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer.

The fourteenth edition of the event will be held & agrave; December 28, 2015, as always set within the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, the home stadium of the home games Schalke04, and put & agrave; win a prize money (from 28,000 to 10,000 Euros for the winners for mere participation). When the team announced five and among them also appear the names of the two blue peak. Wierer and Hofer will compete together for the third consecutive year after reaching seventh in 2013 and ninth in 2014. Both for & ograve; sar & agrave; participation number 4. Lukas fact Piazz & ograve; fourth with Michela Ponza in 2011, while in 2012 Dorothea won the special individual competition held to celebrate the 'farewell to Magdalena Neuner (the Bavarian Classific & ograve; second just behind dell''altoatesina). Besides Italians are already & agrave; You were announced four other formations. The defending champions Ukrainian Valj Semerenko / Sergey Semenov also return quest''anno. The game will be also the French Marie Dorin Habert / Martin Fourcade, the Germans Franziska Hildebrand / Erik Lesser and Slovenians Teja Gregorin / Jakov Fak. In other words & egrave; decided mid & agrave; the starting field. You will see & agrave; in the coming weeks what the other pairs of an event that, in Germany, is used as a driving force for launching the stages of the World Cup in Oberhof and Ruhpolding.
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