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Seventy-two hours after winning the chase'' Martin Fourcade was repeated in'' individual to win his second Olympic title, as well as win number 30 in his career, and getting a result more and more in the legend of biathlon. [All qualified'' to the internal mass start]
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The Frenchman, great pre-race favorite, won the gold medal'' emerging at a distance thanks to the fastest time on the slopes close, just one error to throw (made at the second session), and tight management of the final polygon.
As mentioned the twenty-five Catalan, reached 30 wins, becoming the fifth athlete to reach this threshold. It should also be noted as Martin has won the last five twenty kilometers in which he took part, domain, unprecedented in this race format.
'' Silver medal for an outsider Eve, Erik Lesser. The German has built his podium thanks to the precision in what was one of the few to cover all twenty targets. Skiing could not have nothing against Fourcade, which was hammered 12 "2, but he still got a result very heavy for his career and especially for the German movement in general, so far appeared rather in trouble in Sochi beyond , a few blocks exploits.
A similar for Russia today got the bronze medal with Evgeny Garanichev, one of the men less than expected in the team owner. The twenty-five former long-distance runner has scored the second time on skis tight and committed one error to the shooting, according to the polygon, then managed to get on the podium thanks to a dazzling final round in which he dealt with 13 "Simon Eder.
L'' Austria was forced to swallow a bitter pill twice since it has placed two athletes in fourth and fifth position just seconds from the medals. In addition to Eder, exceeded by 3 "by 3 Garanichev, Dominik Landertinger was placed at 8" 0 claimed by third despite a perfect day to shoot. Regret for Jean Guillaume Beatrix, sixth at 9 "by 3 bronze, that without an error'' s last polygon would have celebrated the'' gold.
Defeat of the day Norway. Emil Hegle Svendsen has been confirmed in version opaque'' views between sprint and pursuit finishing seventh despite a single missed target. It came less than a too imprecise Bjørndalen, thirty-fourth, while he defended himself Johannes Bø, eleventh. Instead, the older brother Tarjei, twenty-sixth, or even not be able to participate in the mass start.
Among the disappointed even the Lithuanian Tomas Kaukenas arrived dramatically in the running for medals'' s last polygon where, however, he was wrong three times, closing the twenty-third. Positively also expected'' Russian Alexey Volkov, sadly sixty-four penalties.
Lukas Hofer home in Italy has once again stood on the proper level expressed between the sprint and pursuit fourteenth closing with two errors. Even Christian De Lorenzi, in turn, covered eighteen targets and ended the thirty-first. Further back, the brothers Windisch. Dominik (6) and Markus (4) were placed sixty-fifth and seventy. At least the younger of the two will participate in the mass start.
SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - PERSONAL MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +1 +0 +0) 40'' 31 "72. LESSER Erik [GER] (0 +0 +0 +0) 12" 23. GARANICHEV Evgeniy [RUS] (0 +1 +0 +0) 34 "54. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 +1 +0 +0) 37" 85. Dominik Landertinger [AUT] (0 +0 +0 +0) 42 "56. BEATRIX Jean Guillaume [FRA] (0 +0 +0 +1) 43" 87. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +0 +1 +0) 58 "68. BAILEY Lowell [USA] (0 +1 +0 +0) 1'' 25" 79. SEMENOV Serhiy [UKR] (1 +0 +0 +0) 1'' 36 "210. BÖHM Daniel [GER] (0 +1 +0 +0) 1'' 37" 7Clicca here for full results .
Tomorrow, at 15.00, will be awarded the title of'' Olympic women's individual. The next men's race is scheduled for Sunday, February 16 when they play the mass start.
MASS START QUALIFIED MALE
ATHLETE
NAT
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen
NOR
Martin Fourcade
FRA
Dominik Landertinger
AUT
Ondrej Moravec
CZE
Erik Lesser
GER
Jaroslav Soukup
CZE
Jean Guillaume Beatrix
FRA
Garanichev Evgeniy *
RUS
Emil Hegle Svendsen
NOR
Simon Schempp
GER
Simon Eder
AUT
Johannes Bø
NOR
Anton Shipulin *
RUS
Evgeny Ustyugov *
RUS
Dmitry Malyshko *
RUS
Alexey Volkov *
RUS
Arnd Peiffer
GER
Lukas Hofer
ITA
Fredrik Lindström
SWE
Nathan Smith
CAN
Christoph Sumann
AUT
Andrejs Rastorgujevs
LAT
Jean Philippe Le Guellec
CAN
Björn Ferry
SWE
Simon Fourcade
FRA
Jakov Fak
SLO
Dominik Windisch
ITA
Kazar Matej
SVK
Brendan Green
CAN
Lowell Bailey
USA
Tim Burke
USA
The names are 31 because there are five Russians. One of them must remain clear out (every nation has a maximum of 4 in each race bibs). It will be the coaching staff to decide, but what we have seen so far for the suspects to make the strongest and most spectators are Malyshko Volkov.
In the case of defections (see ills) this is the list of alternates
RESERVES
NAZ
Semenov Serhy
UKR
Savitskiy Yan
KAZ
Klemen Bauer
SLO
Daniel Böhm
GER
Tarjei Bø
NOR
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Men Individual Sochi (RUS)
FOURCADE Martin
LESSER Erik
GARANICHEV Evgeniy
Biathlon - 2014 Sochi
Second gold for Martin Fourcade, heavy medals for Germany and Russia
Thursday 13 February 2014
Biathlon - 2014 Sochi
[Start list] Svendsen 9 Bjrndalen 15, 31 M.Fourcade, Germany excludes Peiffer
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Anton Shipulin and Dmitry Malyshko not submitted for individual''
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