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The men's pursuit of Soldier Hollow that closes the American trip to the Biathlon World Cup sees the French Quentin Fillon Maillet prevail, which, after breaking the ice with the first place in the starting line in Anterselva, wins the second victory in the season .
Saturday 16 February 2019 6 minutes reading time
The transalpine precedes the Norwegian Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen and compatriot Simon Desthieux.
The race is two-sided: the first part in the calm wind with visibility conditions almost excellent while starting from the first standing polygon enters a gust wind that will eventually make the difference.
In the first two laps Christiansen and Desthieux, the first two sprints of yesterday's Sprint, they make the sixth race while the German duo Lesser - Rees sees at the entrance of the first shooting session get a Johannes Boe who, still with the scars of yesterday at the shot he takes his time at the polygon. At the exit of the polygon Desthieux and Christiansen are still together, Lesser is third at 19.4, the rebounding Johannes Boe fourth at 30.5 while Quentin Fillon Maillet, at 36.1, overtakes Rees, the first famous attendee of the penalty round who finds himself sixth at 51.6 , flanked by Lukas Hofer and the Swiss Weger.
In the second lap Boe lima twenty seconds to his detachment of the summit of the race and, while Desthieux and Christiansen pay a mistake, comes out mid-race 5.5 seconds from Lesser who has 16 seconds ahead of the two, thirty seconds on Fillon Maillet, 46.4 on Lukas Hofer and 50.7 on Guigonnat.
The undisputed leader of the season, reaches and skips Erik Lesser but in the first standing session is still the shot to stop him. Two rounds of penalties for him and the German and take advantage of Christiansen and Quentin Fillon Maillet who are not wrong and find themselves in the first two positions of the partial classification separated by 7 seconds that the French cancels in the fourth round. Desthieux and Johannes Boe are about twenty seconds, Lesser at 37. All the others well over a minute with Lukas Hofer who runs into two errors and is in ninth position at a minute and a half.
It is not enough the last shooting session to solve the games between Fillon Maillet and Christiansen that come out unscathed with the French that imposes the best speed on skis and conquers the second win of the season with 8.7 of advantage over Christiansen. In the fight for third place the check Simon Desthieux who pays only one round of penalty while Boe sees black and misses three times in a very long session. The Frenchman gets the third step of the podium at 47.2 while Johannes Boe has to settle for fourth position at 1.37.1. E 'fifth, despite two other errors at the last polygon, Eric Lesser who precedes the Swiss Benjamin Weger sixth; the Russian Loginov, three mistakes for him, recovers from the twenty-eighth to seventh position but better than he does the Canadian Christian Gow, the only zero of the day with the winner that goes back from the forty-fourth place to eighth place.
Lukas Hofer who pays two errors in the last standing session, for four rounds of total penalties, is twelfth at 2.39.2 while Dominik Windisch with seven errors (0-3-2-2) is twenty-fourth and precedes Thomas Bormolini (0 -2-2-0) twenty-eighth. Thierry Chenal (2-1-3-1) is forty-third.
SOLDIER HOLLOW - MALE TRAINING
1. FILLON-MAILLET Quentin (FRA) (0-0-0-0) in 30.55.82. CHRISTIANSEN Vetle S. (NOR) (0-1-0-0) at 25.93. DESTHIEUX Simon (FRA) (0-1-1-1) to 47.34. BOE Johannes T. (NOR) (0-0-2-3) to 1.37.75. LESSER Erik (GER) (0-0-2-2) at 1.55.16. WEGER Benjamin (SUI) (0-2-1-0) at 2.11.47. LOGINOV Aleksandr (RUS) (0-2-0-1) to 2.16.58. GOW Christian (CAN) (0-0-0-0) to 2.21.29. DOLL Benedikt (GER) (0-1-1-3) to 2.22.710. DOHERTY Sean (USA) (0-3-0-0) at 2.22.8
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