Germany exceeds the wire Norway in the men's Relay Anterselva

The sprint from Simon Schempp and Emil Hegle Svendsen decides the relay held in absentia of Martin Fourcade, Anton Shipulin and Lukas Hofer.

Saturday 21 January 2017 7 minutes reading time

The launch extends the group of pretenders to the podium without making excellent victims; Russia Maxim Tsvetkov and Germany with Erik Lesser bring home five seconds clear of Dominik Windisch, the Norwegian Birkeland, the Savitskiy Kazakh. France pays 17 "for the three refills of Simon Fourcade, the 'Austria Mesotitsch is with the Bulgarian Anev little further back. The second fraction enhances Evgeniy Garanichev leading Russia to the turn of the race buoy with 5/2 lead over Norway's 'Abee Lund and Benedikt Doll of Germany, the' Austria reported before by a good fraction of Grossegger is 12 "Switzerland, a great Joseph Montello (one charge for him) and France with 5 Fabian Claude recharges in about twenty seconds. Peiffer and Johannes Boe greet Malyshko the polygon on the ground where the Russian pays two refills and extend further in the session standing conquering thirty seconds of Malyshko, they remain afloat Waeger and Semakov around 50 seconds and just behind France despite 3 refills Desthieux and Tim Burke showing top the US while Rudy Zini pays the price dell''esordio with a round of penalty which slips the 'Italy in eleventh place. The decisive fraction is presented as a test to chase Emil Hegle Svendsen, who has a dowry the advantage to 18 seconds won by Boe skiing, and Simon Schempp. Russia changes to 56 "with four teams chasing about ten seconds: Ukraine, France, the US and Austria. In polygon standing Svendsen grants two refills, Schempp one and start a crazy sprint along a tour of two of the best sprinters circuit. the fight for the third step of the podium is resolved in a sprint between the 'Ukraine and Russia Pidruchnyi of Babikov, jumps France where Quentin Fillon Maillet closes the transalpine day to forget with a penalty turn. The victory is resolved in the final sprint: Simon Schempp burns Emil Hegle Svendsen in split after a arrembante curve; behind Babikov attacking power away from the finish and brings Russia on the third step of the podium. Germany gets first win in men's relay of a season that in three tests has awarded three different teams (besides the Teutonic, France and Norway) with the MVP palm which will undoubtedly Simon Schempp author of a near-perfect final stage ; good performance of Lesser and Doll and wanting to try the hair nell''uovo Peiffer a slightly subdued although pays the challenge with a sparkling in today's Johannes Boe version. In Norway, second, they do their Birkeland, The 'Abee Lund; Johannes Thingnes Boe seems to put an important building block for the victory while the two errors standing weigh on the valuation of Emil Hegle Svendsen. A Russia practically perfect in three villages in four has to settle for the third step of the podium: always ahead with Tsvetkov and Garanichev, the Russians pay the fraction of Malyshko bad that with 4 refills cuts out the team from the fight for the big target while Babikov despite recharges, manages to drag in third place. Second consecutive rolling to forget for a France where it is difficult to save someone for distribution among all the runners of a number of unusual errors: 3 refills of Simon Fourcade, 5 Claude Fabian, 3 Simon Desthieux, a penalty turn for Quentin Fillon Maillet. Impossible to stay afloat. The 'Italian centers the tenth position close to the ambitions of a formation that had to pay the' absence of Lukas Hofer influence. Dominik Windisch made his closing launch in third with 2 refills; Joseph Montello and Thomas Bormolini bring into game bag two great fractions while Rudy Zini pays the natural brunt dell''esordio mulling a strike. ANTHOLZ - RELAY MASCHILE1. GER [Lesser, Doll, Peiffer, Schempp] (0 + 7) 1.13.57.22. NOR [Birkeland, The 'Abee-Lund, J.Boe, Svendsen] (0 + 9) to 0 "13. RUS [Tsvetkov, Garanichev, Malyshko, Babikov] (0 + 9) in 33" 64. UKR [Pryma, Semenov, Semakov, Pidruchnyi] (0 + 5) 46 "75. AUT [Mesotitsch, Grossegger, Waeger, Landertinger] (0 + 8) in 49" 26. USA [Bailey, Nordgren, Burke, Doherty] (0 + 10) to 1''04 "9Vai to complete result

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