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Third consecutive victory for the Frenchman who consolidates his position at the top of the overall World Cup standings.
Thursday 16 January 2020 4 minutes reading time
Eight biathletes in less than 30 seconds, nineteen in the space of a minute; the male Sprint of Ruhpolding thanks to favorable weather and snow conditions turns into a test of speed and lays the foundations for a pyrotechnic pursuit on Sunday.
It is mandatory, and it is the third consecutive victory in absentia of Johannes Thingnes Boe who became Tuesday father of little Gustav and who could be back next week in Pokljuka, Martin Fourcade that brings to 80 the counter of the victories in individual tests of the World Cup , World Cup and Olympics. Monsieur Le Biathlon duels to the last meter with teammate Quentin Fillon Maillet who climbs the podium for the first time in a Sprint and closes 3.1 seconds behind the winner who made the difference, building the victory, in the range time.
It is, however, the speed on skis that determines the fact that the German Benedikt Doll has to settle for third position at 12.0 from Fourcade while the fourth position sees four biathletes dueling in the space of two seconds. Vetle Sjastaad Christiansen, the fastest today even if only by a couple of seconds on the French duo Fourcade - Fillon Maillet, despite the error at the standing polygon manages to catch her, at 22.2 from the preceding winner of 1.3 Simon Desthieux, fifth on equal I deserve with Fabien Claude (0 + 1) for a whole transalpine day with four athletes in the first five.
The German Philipp Nawrath (0 + 0) achieves the best career result with the seventh place at 24.6 and precedes the Ukrainian Pryma (0 + 0), the usual sparkling Kuehn (0 + 1) of this season and the '' Ukrainian Pidruchnyi (0 + 0), tenth at 34.8.
The best of the Italians is Dominik Windisch (1 + 1) twenty-fifth at 1.10.3 while a decent Bormolini (0 + 0) is thirty-second at 1.26.5. The shot condemns Lukas Hofer (1 + 3) seventy-fifth and Daniele Cappellari (2 + 2) one hundred and ninety.
In the overall World Cup standings, Martin Fourcade leads with 447 points and precedes Simon Desthieux (392), Quentin Fillon Maillet (382) and Johannes Thingnes Boe (374).
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