Italy for Oestersund-bis: 9 confirmations and another debut, with Auchentaller replacing Passler

The twenty-year-old South Tyrolean, brilliant fifth in the IBU Cup, will compete in place of her peer in the second part of the inaugural stage of the World Cup, which starts on Thursday with the Sprints.

Monday 29 November 2021 2 minutes reading time

The first weekend of the great biathlon season, with Individual and Sprint in Oestersund to open the World Cup, did not give Italy great satisfaction, with Wierer, Vittozzi, Hofer and companions far from the podium area, but ready to play it from Thursday in the other matches scheduled in the Swedish location. Starting from the Sprint on Thursday 2 December (women at 1.45 pm, the men test at 4.30 pm), where we will already see the only news among the ten athletes called up by the director Fabrizio Curtaz. Confirmed Dorothea Wierer, Lisa Vittozzi, Samuela Comola (already close to the points area at the debut), Michela Carrara, Lukas Hofer, Dominik Windisch, Thomas Bormolini, Didier Bionaz and Tommaso Giacomel, here is the "third first time" of a '' blue after Comola and Rebecca Passler. The latter, in fact, will give way to another 2001 class in great growth which is Hannah Auchentaller, who will thus make her debut in the maximum circuit a few days after the great 5th place in comeback, obtained in the IBU Cup Pursuit in Idre. After the Sprints, the two Pursuit races and the first relay races of the 2021/22 season will be staged between Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th.

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