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'' The Pursuit of today, in which Dorothea Wierer she finished in third place, was the'' last World Cup race of his career Michela Ponza. '' The fact Italy in the stages of the North side with reduced quota and for thirty-five of Santa Cristina was so than today'' s latest competition in the maximum circuit.
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Michela made his debut in the World Cup'' s January 8, 1998 with a sprint in Ruhpolding. That was the first of 321 races in his career. Only Germany's Andrea Henkel, arrived today to 371, took off on several occasions.
A junior level Ponza has won three world championship medals. A Valcartier in 1998 was silver in the individual'' behind Simone Hauswald and component, together with Barbara and Claudia Messelod Kostner, Italian trio of bronze in the relay. In 1999, a bronze in Pokljuka was'' chase behind Martina Glagow and Linda Tjørhom.
The first pitched in the World Cup came January 21, 2000 when he finished ninth in the sprint Michela Antholz.
In total, over the years they got seven podium finishes in the maximum circuit:
DATE
Locations''
NAZ
FOR
POS
ATHLETE
NAZ
POS
ATHLETE
NAZ
POS
ATHLETE
NAZ
16/02/03
Holmenkollen
NOR
PU
1
Glagow, Martina
GER
2
ZUBRILOVA, Olena
BLR
3
PONZA, Michela
ITA
06/03/23
Holmenkollen
NOR
SP
1
Glagow, Martina
GER
2
PONZA, Michela
ITA
3
IVANOVA, Ekaterina
BLR
07/12/13
Pokljuka
SLO
IN
1
IOURIEVA, Ekaterina
RUS
2
PONZA, Michela
ITA
3
Glagow, Martina
GER
02/28/08
Pyeong Chang
KOR
SP
1
NEUNER Magdalena
GER
2
BAILLY, Sandrine
FRA
3
PONZA, Michela
ITA
01/03/08
Pyeong Chang
KOR
PU
1
BAILLY, Sandrine
FRA
2
PONZA, Michela
ITA
3
AKHATOVA, Albina
RUS
03/16/08
Holmenkollen
NOR
MS
1
WILHELM Kati
GER
2
Rogstad, Solveig
NOR
3
PONZA, Michela
ITA
28/03/09
Khanty-Mansiysk
RUS
PU
1
NEUNER Magdalena
GER
2
PONZA, Michela
ITA
3
DORIN HABERT, Marie
FRA
'' In the year 2007 - 08'' concluded the tenth overall standings of the World Cup, also finishing among the top twenty in four seasons.
A finished fifth in the 2006 Turin'' chase'' s era best result of a'' within the Italian Olympic Committee (later enhanced by Karin Oberhofer a few weeks ago).
For the best World Cup result was a sixth place achieved in the sprint in Antholz 2007 which was followed by a'' chase'' in eighth place. It should also be recalled that in the mass start in Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 Michela he finished eleventh after arriving in the race for the podium'' s last polygon.
Especially must be stressed as Ponza is one of the four factional able to win the bronze medal in the women's relay of the World Cup in Nove Mesto, 2013, the first World Championship medal for the Italian women's movement.
Finally Michela is famous for its "zero" to shoot. A total of 54 races finished without errors. No other woman has done the same, while in the men's only the Rich Gross (59) has been able to get much higher.
The career of the dolomites, which ended in the maximum circuit, should have, however, two "postscript". The next week could be the game in Val Martello for the'' last leg of Ibu Cup, finally on 29 and 30 March would have to conclude definitively'' agonistic activity at the Italian championships of Forni Avoltri.
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