The four Azzurri towards the summer biathlon world championship. Hoellrigl: "That's why we decided to be there"

Thursday the start of the world championship in Ruhpolding; in the race for Italy there will be Wierer, Vittozzi, Giacomel and Bionaz. The analysis of the technical director.

Monday 22 August 2022 3 minutes reading time

The Italian team is leaving for Germany and will take part, from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 August, in the Summer Biathlon World Championships, scheduled in a symbolic location such as Ruhpolding. The technical director Klaus Hoellrigl, as known, has summoned Dorothea Wierer, Lisa Vittozzi, Tommaso Giacomel and Didier Bionaz; the program will open with the junior supersprints, followed on Friday by the seniores supersprints, on Saturday it will be the turn of the senior and junior sprints, on Sunday it will close with the junior pursuits and the gala mass start seniors. Hoellrigl explains the reasons behind the decision to return to play a summer world championship by the Italian national team: "After a few years of absence, we decided to come back to this review because Ruhpolding is close enough and because the technical staff believes that, in addition to the girls present for many years on the circuit, our young people have the opportunity to confront at a certain level with strong competition and in front of the cheering of the public, as has not happened in the last two seasons due to the covid - the analysis of the blue dt - There remains an excellent opportunity to compare ourselves from a competitive point of view with the opponents after a summer dedicated to preparation ”. The blue teams had not participated in a summer World Cup for many years. The annals speak of ten medals won by Italy in history: Wilfried Pallhuber between 1996 and 1998 took home four golds and one silver, in 2013 at Forni Avoltri Lukas Hofer obtained a gold in the sprint and a silver in the men's pursuit , Dorothea Wierer the title in the women's sprint, the mixed relay was silver with Runggaldier / Gontier / Plaickner / Montello and Markus Windisch won the bronze in the men's pursuit.

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