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The American Federation of biathlon has announced the composition of the working groups ahead of the 2017 season - '' 18. As for the highest level, the key word is "expansion", as the number of athletes entered in the national team has grown from 7 to 11.
Sunday 9 April 2017 3 minutes reading time
In truth, even the United States have adopted the double standard German model to determine the internal hierarchies.
In fact not only the biathletes were divided into working groups, but the facets of the status, which is a different level of starting consideration in view of future choices have also been added.
If we look to the national team were in fact confirmed the four men (Bailey, Burke, Doherty, Nordgren) and three women (Dunklee, Egan, Phaneuf) already nell''inverno just finished, in which two units have been aggregated by sex .
However, only 3 of these 11 have the "A1" status, which is the highest ever. This is the composition of the team [in brackets status assigned to each athlete].
NATIONAL TEAM MEN [A1] BAILEY Lowell (1981) [A1] BURKE Tim (1982) [A2] DOHERTY Sean (1995) [A2] NORDGREN Leif (1989) [A3] SCHOMMER Paul (1992) [B] CURRIER Russell (1987 ) NATIONAL WOMEN'S TEAM [A1] DUNKLEE Susan (1986) [A2] EGAN Clare (1987) [A3] REID Joanne (1992) [A3] PHANEUF Madeleine (1995) [B] DREISSIGACKER Emily (1988) TEAM X MASCHILEBROWN Jake (1992 ) TEAM X FEMMINILELEVINS Chloe (1998) GROUP NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MASCHILECERVENKA Vaclav (1999) COOPER Travis (1996) DURTSCHI Max (1991) HOWE Alex (1989) JOHNSON Cody (1997) PEARSON Jakob (1998) GROUP NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FEMMINILEGILLILAND Grace (1999 ) GROSSMANN Hallie (1993) Siena Ellingson (1996) KAUTZER Amanda (1998) MADIGAN Lexie (2002) WILSON Helen (2001)
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