Vittozzi, Wierer, Giacomel and Bionaz: there will be four Azzurri at the summer biathlon World Championships

Appointment in Ruhpolding from 25 to 28 August, with the national team ready to play for the medals that have been missing in the Italian home for almost 25 years with Pallhuber.

Thursday 14 July 2022 2 minutes reading time

There will be four members of the blue biathlon team who will take part in the summer World Championships of the discipline, scheduled in the German town of Ruhpolding from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 August. The technical director Klaus Hoellrigl has in fact summoned Dorothea Wierer, Lisa Vittozzi, Tommaso Giacomel and Didier Bionaz for a world championship that Italy will honor with its top athletes (Lukas Hofer will be missing, still recovering after the interventions behind him. ). The competition program will open on Thursday with the junior supersprints, followed on Friday by the senior supersprints, on Saturday it will be the turn of the senior and junior sprints, and on Sunday it will close with the junior pursuits and the gala mass start seniors. The blue teams had not participated in a summer World Cup for many years, the annals speak of four medals won by Italy in history, all by Wilfried Pallhuber, dating back between 1996 and 1998, with four golds and one silver in the palmares of the South Tyrolean champion.

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