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The United States hosts are having a party at the World Youth Championships Biathlon in Presque Isle. In the men's sprint class youth, dedicated to athletes born in 1995 or later, has imposed the'' expected Sean Doherty, deployed only a few days ago in the relay of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
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The eighteen year old American has, as usual, sported a step on the slopes close above average, although not adequately supported by precision shooting. Today, however, the U.S. has managed to win the gold medal'' despite the beauty of errors 4.
The most serious threat to the success of Doherty came Mark Gross, son of the legendary Rich, one of the most successful biathletes ever. German, two penalty loops, was beaten by only 1 "7 and has paid too especially the time it takes to shoot up in the polygon.
Bronze medal for the Russian Dmitrii Shamaev was able to get right into the final round of the Finnish Mikko Loukkaanhuhta, forced to settle for fourth place. It should be underlined the significant test team of Kazakhstan, not a superpower in the discipline, capable of placing three athletes between the seventh and twelfth position.
Among the blue was the best Luca Ghiglione, leader of the Italian Cup Category reach, eighteenth with 3 errors. Emil Bormetti in turn forced to travel three times the'' ring of penalty, concluded thirty-fifth. Finally Andrea Baretto, weighed down by 5 missed targets, finished forty-fifth.
PRESQUE ISLE - WORLD YT. - SPRINT MASCHILE1. DOHERTY Sean [USA] (2 +2) 19'' 35 "02. GROß Marco [GER] (0 +2) to 1" 73. SHAMAEV Dmitrii [RUS] (1 +2) at 18 "94. LOUKKAANHUHTA Mikko [FIN] (2 +1) to 24" 05. BARTKO Simon [SVK] (0 +2) 25 "16. Kostyukov Yaroslav [RUS] (1 +1) 32" 27. Yeremin Roman [KAZ] (2 +2) 38 "0 8. PONSILUOVA Martin [SWE] (1 +2) 40" 29. MILLAR Aidan [CAN] (1 +1) to 43 "810. VITENKO Vladislav [KAZ] (2 +1) to 54" 5
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Tomorrow will make its debut the junior category (16.00 women's sprint, men's sprint 18:30), while the youth back on track Sunday for the chase.
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Sean Doherty won the sprint youth, silver for Mark Gro, son of Rich
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