biathlon summer world championships

Summer biathlon, what a splendid world double in Ruhpolding: Wierer d''oro, Vittozzi silver

The two blues dominate the supersprint, with a super performance on roller skis. Giacomel mocked in the men's race won by Horn over Samuelsson and Femling.

Friday 26 August 2022 3 minutes reading time

A splendid blue double to open the summer biathlon world championships, started yesterday in Ruhpolding, with Dorothea Wierer gold medal in the supersprint in front of Lisa Vittozzi. The multiple world champion made two mistakes at the shooting range, but the performance on the roller skis was really important and "Doro" ran in front of everyone after the initial series, no longer giving up the first position to finally reach the finish line with just over 5 seconds of margin against her teammate (with Vittozzi who made one more mistake in shooting), while the bronze went to the Finnish Nastasia Kinnunen, perfect at the shooting range. Off the podium Marketa Davidova with the fourth position at 23 ”from Wierer: the Czech had set the best time in the morning qualifying, in which Vittozzi was eighth and Wierer ninth. "It was definitely a good training, it was important to understand what our level of condition was in a period in which we loaded a lot - commented toisi.org Wierer, who thanks to this title wins his second world gold at the level. of summer world championships. In the men's race, the German Philipp Horn won despite two errors at the shooting range, beating Swedes Sebastian Samuelsson and Peppe Femling (both with three errors) in a sprint. Out in the qualifiers Didier Bionaz, the blue team relied solely on Tommaso Giacomel, protagonist in the qualifiers with a great third time. Unfortunately, the boy from Primiero retired after the first series, when he was in tenth position, due to a technical problem linked to the attack of the roller ski. Saturday 27 August the program includes sprints (men at 2.45 pm and women at 5.00 pm), which will be attended by the same four Italians competing today.

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