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Poker Norway in the women's relay, Italy ninth

The Norwegian women's relay consisting of Solemdal, Tandrevold, Roeiseland and Tiril Eckhoff brings the winning streak to four in the race format.

Saturday 11 January 2020 4 minutes reading time

In the first half of the race Solemdal and Tandrevold limit below the minute, with three refills per head, the detachment from the head of the race, surprisingly, by Elisa and Selina Gasparin who, having to resort to a single recharge, manage to double the buoy halfway through the race with 27 seconds on Finland which, with Eder and Makarainen, has already deployed its battleships. France and Sweden are about forty seconds from the top. Aita Gasparin throws away the opportunity for a historic victory in the standing session where a penalty turn causes the rossocrociate to brush up outside the podium area; take advantage of Aymonier (0 + 2), Brorsson (0 + 1) and Roeiseland (0 + 2) who, thanks to a problem of the French in the last lap, find themselves paired at the gearbox; the race is ultimately decided between Tiril Eckhoff, Justine Braisaz and Hanna Oeberg. The session on the ground does not unravel the skein and everything is played at the last shooting range where Tiril Eckhoff controls the situation and must make only one reload taking advantage of Hanna Oeberg, two reloads for her, and a slow Braisaz at the shooting that she loses, on an equal footing of errors, the contact from the Swedish. Norway (0 + 11) was ahead of Sweden by 21.1 (0 + 10) and France (0 + 12) by 33.1. Denise Herrmann (0 + 2) brings Germany (1 + 11) up to fourth position while Lena Haecki (0 + 4) takes Switzerland to fifth place. With ninth place Italy takes the best place of the season in the women's relay; Lisa Vittozzi (0 + 2) confirms she is a great specialist in the fractions of launch, granting Julia Simon less than a second but taking the rest of the group by about ten seconds. The two rounds of penalties accused in a windy polygon standing by Dorothea Wierer (2 + 4) are very heavy, Federica Sanfilippo (1 + 3) limits the damage to close with the excellent debut of Michela Carrara (0 + 2).

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