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A test with online start from the detachments similar to a Pyrenean stage of the Tour de France closes the 2019 of men's Biathlon.
Sunday 22 December 2019 3 minutes reading time
And the closure is still in the name of Johannes Thingnes Boe who gets the fifteenth win of the calendar year, the fifth of this initial glimpse of the season. The World Cup holder, who is expected to skip two or three stages in January to experience the birth of his firstborn in the family, provides yet another show of strength by imposing himself with the attitude of the absolute master of the discipline.
The Norwegian is already at the second shooting range with at least 20 seconds of gap on the whole competition which in the middle of the race is reduced to two names: the French Emilien Jacquelin and his brother Tarjei Boe. A mistake in the first standing session does not affect the dominance of the World Cup holder who has an advantage of 24 seconds on his brother and 36 on the transalpine. The fine word on the verdict for the first position was written abundantly, and the challenge for the second place remains open. At the last shooting range Jacquelin takes advantage of Tarjei Boe's only mistake of the day to climb over him and take those 10 seconds of margin that he keeps up to the finish line where he passes at 42.1 for a second place which represents the best result of the twenty-four Savoyard lady.
Behind, beyond the one minute gap, Quentin Fillon Maillet, two errors for him, Martin Fourcade rules for fourth position, missing only one target but on skis he pays Boe one minute and 25 seconds to his compatriot. The Franco-Norwegian championship is closed by sixth place, best performance equaled, by twenty-two year old Johannes Dale, a guarantee for the future, which overcomes the German Peiffer in the last lap.
Dominik Windisch starts again uphill with two penalty rounds in the first shooting range to which an error is added in the second and third sessions. Closes in seventeenth position at 3.15.5, paying almost 2 minutes on skis to the winner as Lukas Hofer, 5 errors, twenty-first.
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