Biathlon World Championships: Hauser queen of Mass Start, Vittozzi fifth

In the season of definitive consecration, Lisa Therese Hauser wins the title in the mass start that closes the Pokljuka Biathlon World Championships in the women's field. An excellent Lisa Vittozzi is forced to surrender in the last lap to the excessive power of the Norwegians on skis.

Sunday 21 February 2021 3 minutes reading time

In the first lap Chevalier, Wierer and Eckhoff take on the task of keeping the pace high to start making selection; the three find themselves making mistakes in the first polygon and with Hanna Oeberg they accuse about twenty seconds of delay from the head of the race which is of Elisa Gasparin with Marte Roeiseland, in a few seconds also Hauser, Persson, Lisa Vittozzi and Hinz with the pace that fools in the second round with a group of about twenty biathletes who find themselves in command. In the second session on the ground, Hauser, Eckhoff, Hinz and Tandrevold make no mistake, Five out of five also for Wierer who finds himself eighth at 12.3 while he has to take a penalty lap Lisa Vittozzi who is 20 seconds away with Hanna Oeberg and Roeiseland in the surroundings of the tenth position. As often happens, with the third polygon the games begin to get serious: Hauser and Bendika are right, at 20 seconds Eckhoff, after a penalty lap and Lisa Vittozzi, at 28 seconds Roeiseland, Tandrevold and Wierer after his second mistake. In the fourth lap Tiril Eckhoff gnaws a few seconds at the first while the other positions are crystallized; the Austrian does not miss the appointment with the definitive consecration and not even Lisa Vittozzi is wrong who comes out second 18 seconds with 10 seconds advantage over Roeiseland, 13 over Tandrevold and 19 over Eckhoff. The Norwegians frame the fourth and halfway through the decisive lap they reach and jump the blue; Hauser (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) wins Gold with 21.7 on Tandrevold (0 + 0 + 1 + 0), 23.0 on Eckhoff (1-0-1-1) and 23.6 on Roeiseland (0-1- 0-0) that ends the World Cup without individual medals. Lisa Vittozzi (0-1-0-0) is fifth at 48.9, Dorothea Wierer (1-0-1-1) eighth at 1.05.3

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