Live from Hochfilzen: at 12:15 the start of the men's pursuit, there is room for comebacks, the blues try

In front of all the German Johannes Kuehn, who achieved his first career success in yesterday's Sprint. Behind many hunters ready to get on the podium in a race that promises to be very open and could grant comebacks from afar, perhaps even by the Azzurri.

Saturday 11 December 2021 3 minutes reading time

Several athletes who have amazed in the Sprint are in fact at risk on the four polygons and at the same time some big players, who have remained lagging behind, could come back from the rear. The materials will be decisive. Kuehn himself, who will open the race, and Ponsiluoma (+14 "), the first of the pursuers, do not give guarantees in pursuit. In fact, the Swede is still on the hunt for his first career podium in the format. On the other hand, a train composed by the Belarusian Smolski, who was surprisingly third yesterday, Loginov, Tarjei Boe, Jacquelin and Fillon Maillet, will have an error to recover. The Norwegian and the two French are the favorites for the victory. Boe won on these snows in 2010, Fillon Maillet triumphed in 2020, while Jacquelin in Hochfilzen is in the open streak of three consecutive podiums in the format. Here the IBU live timing! Here is the starting list! The first two of the overall will try to recover from a distance: Samuelsson (+45 ") and Christiansen (+52"), at the start with the Giallorossi bib as leader of the general and specialty standings. With bib 20 there will be Laegreid, winner here last year, who will have 56 ”to recover. With the 30 instead it will be the turn of Johannes Boe (1’14 "), the great disappointment of the Sprint. Among the Azzurri, the first to start will be Lukas Hofer (+ 1’01 "), who will precede Thomas Bormolini (+ 1’04") and Dominik Windisch (+ 1’15 "). Tommaso Giacomel will try to enter the points area, at the start with the 41 at 1’33 "from the tread.

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