BiathlonSummer Biathlon Festival
Davide Magnaghi
At 20 days exactly from Frassinoro Summer Biathlon Festival 2015 trilogy retrospective exhibition faces 2013, remembered as the 'year of the rain and the first foreign winner. & Nbsp;
Monday 10 July 2017 8 minutes reading time
The novelty & agrave; principal of the second edition & egrave; represented by chance & agrave; to use rifles caliber 22 and then a polygon similar to those of the World Cup.
The new feature & egrave; It reflected also by field starters, today the most & ugrave; rich and international of all time, thanks to some surprise arrivals.
In fact 24 athletes present, representing less than 9 different countries (Italy, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Great Britain and New Zealand).
The organizers are put in difficulty & agrave; by having more & ugrave; men expected. The Serbia Milanko Petrovic comes in Frassinoro in the company of the Macedonian Darko Damjanovski not expected on the eve.
Is obvious & Outdoors; drawback deciding to compete as a guest star Alice Cogilli the young, aspiring athlete category tesserata ski club Focolaccia, always essential for the & rsquo; organization of the Summer Biathlon Festival.
In addition to the firing range and field a & rsquo; & egrave other characteristics; worthy of the World Cup, or the climate. L & rsquo; 2013 edition takes place at temperatures not exactly summer & nbsp; (The night before the race, the mercury drops to 4 & deg; C!).
No coincidence that the Friday & Igrave; one of the organizers, laughing and joking, it is assumed to go get the cannons from Piandelagotti and competing on snow. & Ldquo; We make photos and send them to him in Russia, their Bullano they have snow in April. They humiliate them. We ce l & rsquo; we in June! & Rdquo; someone says.
The weather & ograve; is not serious; friend during competition Since & eacute; for the first (and so far only time in history) you race with the rain (to the delight of Dorothea Wierer trying in every way to speed up the program to stay as little as possible under the & rsquo; water).
L & rsquo; & South Tyrol will have agrave; an attitude toward the wet worthy of Alain Prost, but the feeling & egrave; instead that of Ayrton Senna. L & rsquo; Tyrolean aims since the batteries as one of the favorites for success as raffled along with the gi & agrave; Petrovic cited, which surprisingly, in the context frassinorese proves devastating on roller skis.
In the battery & rsquo; athlete Rasen and the Serbs are marking time in which they approach only the reigning champions Nicole Gontier / Pietro Dutto. The latter for & ograve; risk l & rsquo; elimination in the semifinals, saving himself finally to the skin of our teeth.
In the final fight is only in the early stages. Dorothea, very accurate and very fast at the shooting range, earns a small margin that Petrovic then increases despite several shooting errors. The Serbian, literally dominating on roller skis, you can even do cabaret near the finish line, stopping to shake hands with spectators before ending victoriously.
Ben & more ugrave; fought race for the place of 'honor with the defending champions Gontier / Dutto who manage to win in the final round of Carmen Runggaldier and Peter Dokl. Curiously Slovenian placed third with younger sister Alexia which had occupied the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium in 2012.
L & rsquo; last finalist duo, composed of Daria Yurlova and Klemen Bauer concludes staccatissimo paying probably due to fatigue & rsquo; having participated in the repechage.
The test given to pi & ugrave; young people, who for the first time with the participation of Belarusian children, sees the triumph of victory Cogilli (Focolaccia) and David Santarelli (Granta Parey). Second place went to Kevin Gontiel (Granta Parey) and Artison Harbar (Belarus) with Amber Fosson (Brusson) and Matthew Vegezzi Bossi (Maritime Alps).
At the conclusion of the competition & egrave; followed the traditional long holiday in which athletes mingled with fans. The highlight of the evening & egrave; represented by Darko Damjanovski that, having opened a bottle of lambrusco, began Whirl it over his head watering a dozen people in that moment intent to dine quietly.
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SUMMER BIATHLON FESTIVAL 2013 1. Dorothea WIERER [ITA] & ndash; Milanko PETROVIC [SRB] 2. GONTIER Nicole [ITA] - DUTTO Peter [ITA] 3. Peter Dokl [SLO] - RUNGGALDIER Carmen [ITA]
RACE YOUTH COGILLI Vittoria (Focolaccia) & ndash; SANTARELLI David (Granta Parey)
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