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With a touching dedication to initial Asko Nuutinen, they were played on weekends Finnish Championships Biathlon present with all the top athletes of a movement that is growing rapidly in terms of practitioners and TV ratings.
Monday 27 March 2017 10 minutes reading time
After that on Friday the three-day program of Oulu National and '' was opened by the club relay teams in which one of the women and '' sets the favored Kontiolahti dragged into the second half from captain Mäkäräinen, while in men the victory went to the children of sciklub Lahti, were scheduled to Saturday and the sprint finale to Sunday with the last individual.
In the female sprint finished the long Holmenkollen weekend with Mari Laukkanen that for once she had taken all the national and international spotlight, the hierarchies are readily restored to Oulu in a second day characterized by sun, temperatures around the freezing level but with wind that disturbed the athletes in the race. clear and convincing victory for Kaisa Mäkäräinen that after an error in the ground polygon has not made mistakes, winning the 'Suomi yet another title with the fastest time on skis. Reduce dall''emozionale shotgun registered in Oslo with dedication and wept at the finish line for the loss of their coach shooting, Mari Laukkanen has not been able to repeat almost perfect Norwegian percentages mulling un''ottima try skiing with three penalty loops '' already at the first polygon. Third place went to Sanna Markkanen who, however, '' benefited from the disqualification of Laura Toivanen guilty of failing to stop the control of the rifle after the 'arrival.
In the men's bad day shooting for the most successful Hiidensalo who finished third in the sprint after covering each polygon in two rounds of penalty ''. It took advantage of the 'Another biancoblù that this season has scored points in the World Cup, the 25 year old Tuomas Grönman concluding that the 80% shooting he earned his first career national title. Second place for the revived Ahti Toivanen that for the second year in a row he had to stop several times their preparation for repeated health problems.
SM-KILPAILUT, OULU
Sprint Women:
1. Kaisa Mäkäräinen 18.40,6 (1 + 0)
2. Mari Laukkanen +1.14,4 (3 + 0)
3. Sanna Markkanen +2.10,4 (0 + 1)
4. Erika Jänkä +2.31,5 (0 + 3)
5. Suvi Minkkinen +2.48,3 (2 + 0)
Sprint Men:
1. Tuomas Grönman 23.34,2 (1 + 1)
2. Ahti Toivanen + 10.8 (0 + 1)
3. Olli Hiidensalo + 24.8 (2 + 2)
4. Jarkko Kauppinen + 37.1 (2 + 1)
5. Juuso Joukas + 41.5 (0 + 0)
Give youth and a talented young individuals in the two who ended the season of biathlon in the land of a thousand lakes.
With contemporary flat fee of Mäkäräinen and Laukkanen, who have saved energy for the forthcoming commitments in the fund, the title went to the daughter of 'art Jessika Rolig. Jessika's mother is indeed Marjut Lukkarinen gold in the bottom of Albertville 1992. Even for Rolig small but continuous health problems have undermined the recently a career that just two years ago looked very promising at Youth level. In a Sunday characterized by strong winds that disturbed both races for the twenty year old Hämenlinna it is the first national title arrived after having committed the fewest errors in a shot between the big. Silver to sixteen year Kouvola, Heidi Nikkinen, biathlete who has already '' all''attivo also titles at youth level in the bottom and that is '' well-behaved in the last world junior Brezno Orsblie. Third the more expert Laura Toivanen who takes the sottrattole bronze yesterday in the sprint.
In the men's 20km and '' instead of the 19 year old Tuusula Jaakko Ranta who wins the victory in an individual characterized by continuous changes in the wind, low rates but with considerable fanbase. Improves the third place yesterday Olli Hiidensalo that closes on the intermediate step of the podium thanks to a best step skiing despite the 7 errors distributed over 4 polygons of the competition. Three errors less than the 25-year-Lahti, allow the former promised Mika Kaljunen to win the third place finish.
Women Individual:
1. Jessika Rolig 51: 44.3 +0.0 (0210)
 2. Heidi Nikkinen 54: 15.4 +2: 31.1 (1311)
3. Laura Toivanen 54: 25.3 +2: 41.0 (1114)
4. Jenny Fellman 56: 00,4 +4: 16.1 (1202)
5. Erika Jänkä 56: 15.4 +4: 31.1 (1321)
Individual men:
 1. Jaakko Ranta 57: 18.3 +0.0 (1110)
 2. Olli Hiidensalo 58: 36.4 +1: 18.1 (1222)
3. Mika Kaljunen 59: 05,2 +1: 46.9 (1120)
4. Sami Orpana 1: 00: 56.2 +3: 37.9 (0122)
5. Lauri Peltoniemi 1: 01: 00.1 +3: 41.8 (0201)
With the national championships in Oulu is in store a very positive season for the Finnish biathlon in general. The four wins in equally divided between the World Cup and Mäkäräinen Laukkanen, the bronze medal and the final third of the movement's leaders are just the tip dell''iceberg a discipline which in Finland is increasing year after year practitioners and viewers constant manner. In the men after zero in terms of points scored in the 2015-16 season, this season the duo Hiidensalo - Gronman has added 43.
In the national ranking sinivalkoinen they have improved by two positions the previous dell''anno result in women and one for men. But what '' and that '' more encouraging is the number of practitioners from under 11 categories up to the under 18 increased by a good 20% compared to 2010, the medals obtained by children under 17 in recent EYOF of Erzerum, and placings in the top 10 at the world Youth and Junior, in sharp contrast to the recent past. Main reason of this "boom" of the discipline that combines shooting and cross over to tow and having Kaisa Mari and '' the fact of transmitting unencrypted over national Yle TV all the World and World Cup competitions. Two data summarize the popularity '' this season: for the mass share was 67% female Hochfilzen start (with Mäkäräinen medal). While moving the second career win Mari Laukkanen to Holmenkollen, viewers have more than one million viewers in a population of just over 5 million inhabitants.
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