Ringing by Martin Fourcade in the Oberhof Sprint. Italians out of the points

The Frenchman takes the first opportunity granted by the expected absence of Johannes Boe to return to victory in a Sprint characterized by the bad conditions of the snow washed away by the rain and by the different distribution of effort with 5 km on skis between the polygons.

Friday 10 January 2020 3 minutes reading time

Martin Fourcade abandons the aggressive race conduct chosen in the last few outings to try, in vain, to counter the World Cup holder and with a more thoughtful attitude to shooting he scored one of the two 10/10 of the day in a shooting range made insidious by the gusty wind. With the best time on the skis, the Frenchman signed a French double ahead of the 25.5 Emilien Jacquelin on the third podium in the season and in his career while the third place went to the German Johannes Kuehn (0 + 1) to the best result ever in a Sprint. The other 10/10 of the day is of the Russian Matvey Eliseev who closes at 41.1 and adds a fourth place in Oberhof to the podium of Oestersund and to the fourth do Hochfilzen for a palmares of respect in the Sprint of the season where he punched only the appointment by Le Grand Bornand. Eliseev takes the luxury of preceding Captain Alexander Loginov (0 + 1), fifth, while the third Frenchman in the first seven is Simon Desthieux (0 + 1). Seventh place for the German Arnd Peiffer (1 + 0) who precedes Bjoentegaard (1 + 1), Johannes Dale (1 + 1) in fourth place in the top ten in his first season in the maximum circuit, and Christiansen (1 + 2) . It is a day to forget for the Italian patrol all out of points between Thomas Bormolini (0 + 3) and Thierry Chenal (1 + 2) with Dominik Windisch (3 + 2) and Lukas Hofer (1 + 4). He is saved on shooting (0 + 2) but he is shipwrecked on skis Saverio Zini.

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