Kuzmina vince la Sprint di Oslo, Wierer undicesima. Crolla Vittozzi

Biathlon

Kuzmina wins the Oslo Sprint, Wierer eleventh. Crolla Vittozzi

The Slovak Anastasiya Kuzmina imposes herself in the first race of the final stage of the Biathlon World Cup and keeps alive the hope of an impossible recovery for the crystal ball.

Thursday 21 March 2019 3 minutes reading time

Second time on skis, a little more than a second from Denise Hermann, and an error on the ground: Kuzmina crushes the competition and precedes by 21 "2 the German Franziska Preuss, perfect at shooting, and 25" 2 the compatriot Paulina Fialkova who on the pitch he scored a perfect 10/10 as the French Celia Aymonier, who missed the first podium in his World Cup career of just 5 seconds. There are two rounds of penalties, one per session, forcing the German Herrmann to settle for fifth place; the fourth claimant in the overall World Cup standings, the Norwegian Marte Olsbu Roieseland, ahead of compatriot Tiril Eckhoff and Swede Linn Persson, is sixth with an error. Dorothea Wierer defends herself, a mistake standing and the rhythm burdened by world championship celebrations, and closes in eleventh position with a glance towards Saturday's pursuit thanks to the gap of less than a minute from the leader. Naufraga, on the other hand, Lisa Vittozzi who could have seriously compromised her chances of winning the crystal ball: the five mistakes of today not only do not make her collect points but the sixty-eighth position will not allow her to take the start in the Pursuit. A very hard blow for the sappadina. In the overall standings of the World Cup (before the discards), Dorothea Wierer leads with 882 points, thirty advantage over Lisa Vittozzi, 91 over Marte Olsbu, 98 over Anastasiya Kuzmina. In the game of waste, Wierer discards a twenty-second is a twenty-fourth and has 846 points, Vittozzi discards 8 points to stay at 844, Olsbu is at an altitude of 780, a point ahead of Kuzmina.

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