L’Italia cala gli assi nella Single Mixed dei Mondiali di Anterselva. La Start List e le scelte delle nazioni più forti

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Italy drops the aces in the Single Mixed of the World Championships in Anterselva. The Start List and the choices of the strong

Tomorrow at 3.15 pm the start of the Single Mixed, the youngest race of the biathlon world championships, which can reserve great surprises. On paper, six nations leave to get on the podium, among them also Italy.

Wednesday 19 February 2020 3 minutes reading time

There were few doubts about what the blue pair would have been for the Single Mixed and in fact Curtaz and his collaborators decided to drop the aces to go hunting for a medal. Indeed, Lukas Hofer and Dorothea Wierer defend the silver medal won last year in Oestersund and dreaming of something better costs nothing. Competition is intense and fierce. Norway field the reigning champion pair: Mars Roeiseland and Johannes Boe, as well as the best currently available. The duo norge undoubtedly starts in pole position to replicate the gold of 2019. The Swedish couple Hanna Oeberg- Sebastian Samuelsson also seems to be on the podium, defending the bronze medal won last year on the snow at home. The first is a certainty, the second instead showed a fair level of performance in this review and seems to like the format. Instead Germany, France and Austria start in the second row, all with unknowns to be clarified on the track. The German one bears the name of Erik Lesser while Preuss is back from a good 15 km. The Frenchmen Bescond and Jacquelin are veterans of Pokljuka's success but in a totally different race context. In fact, in the World Cup the Single Mixed takes place on the same day as the Mixed Relay and the starting field is much lower than that of a world championship. Austria instead deploys the Hauser-Eder couple, specialists of the format but to be tested on the field, especially on skis. Finally, among the outsiders, the chickpeas Davidova-Krcmar and the Ukrainians Merkushyna-Pidruchnyi should not be forgotten.

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