LIVE from Nove mesto for the men's pursuit: it is an open fight for the podium, five blues at the start

At 16:00 the start of the sixth men's pursuit of the season. Twelve athletes start within forty seconds and can aspire to the podium. Farther away the Italians, who will try the comeback.

Sunday 7 March 2021 3 minutes reading time

The first to shoot will be Simon Desthieux, fresh from his first World Cup victory. The Frenchman will have a minimal margin over Sebastian Samuelsson and Arnd Peiffer. Following will be the Norwegians Laegreid and Tarjei Boe, and the German Doll with a delay ranging from 10 "to 15". A very uncertain race is expected and with many possible protagonists, also taking into consideration the fact that twelve start enclosed in 39 ”. This is in fact the gap of Johannes Boe, who will start together with his compatriot Stroemsheim and will try the great comeback, after a disappointing and negative Sprint in terms of the general classification. Here the IBU Live Timing! Here is the starting list! The first blue to take to the track will be Lukas Hofer with bib 21 and a gap of almost a minute from Desthieux. Instead, Dominik Windisch (41), Didier Bionaz (49), Tommaso Giacomel (56) and Thomas Bormolini (58) will start further back, all with the aim of entering the points. In the five previous seasons Samuelsson, Fillon Maillet and Jacquelin, at the start with the 8th, took one victory each, while the only one capable of repeating was Laegreid, winner in Hochfilzen and Oberhof. The Norwegian leads the specialty classification with nine points over Jacquelin and eighteen over Johannes Boe, who never finished better than third over the winter.

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