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In the mass start of the Pokljuka in December 2014 Jean Guillaume Beatrix was playing the victory along with Martin Fourcade and Anton Shipulin, but in close proximity & agrave; He fell down the final and had to settle for fifth place. In exactly one year after the twenty-seven French closed the circle by taking revenge.
Sunday 20 December 2015 7 minutes reading time
The race today & egrave; Because was atypical & egrave; many of the favorites made mistakes and no one in the head & egrave; took the risk to make selection.
It & egrave; resulted in a competition in which the fluid tread have repeatedly changed characteristics and whose values ​​are defined only at exit dell''ultimo polygon, where eleven athletes arrived on course for success.
Only six of them for & ograve; they were not wrong. Among them Emil Hegle Svendsen, who after dictating the pace mildly attacked uphill. The only Beatrix had the legs to respond azione Scandinavian, after which & eacute; he joined downhill and beat him easily in the sprint. A well-deserved success also because & eacute; the transalpine & egrave; was the 'only one of thirty starters find the shoot-out.
The 'athlete affiliated to the Ski-Clubs Autrans become the seventh born in 1988 in establishing itself in the World Cup - only 1967 produced more & ugrave; winners (nine) - and above all shakes off the 'image of the eternal unfinished arising from the curious fact that the' only one of this phenomenal class to have won a World Championship gold at the junior level.
Svendsen & nbsp; certainly chews bitter, but at least he forfeited his first podium finish of the season ahead of Ole Einar Bj ø rndalen, to 175 & deg; finish in the top-three career. The pi & ugrave; great biathlete of all time has harpooned third place surpassing the photo finish Simon Schempp. Fifth and sixth place for Andreas Birnbacher and Simon Desthieux, which have raised the white flag in the final round.
Seventh Martin Fourcade, forced to compete always on the run. The Catalan has in fact made two mistakes at the beginning and two at the third pitch, but & egrave; He managed to partially straighten his performance thanks to a zero to close and a final round path furious pace.
In the top ten, just behind Johannes Thingnes B ø ;, also it found its way Dominik Windisch the second best result of his career. The 'blue finished ninth two limiting its penalty payment agrave; and being protagonist of a final extremely incisive.
Conversely & egrave; collapsed in the closing stages Anton Shipulin, extremely perky four-fifths of competition. The Russian - eleventh - he has paid two errors up and conducting the race very daring, at last for & ograve; proved fruitless. Among the big disappoint Tarjei B ø ;, only eighteen.
In the overall standings of the World Cup Martin Fourcade is the leader with 384 points against the 337 of Bj ø rndalen, 331 of Schempp, 306 of Svendsen, 297 of Fillon Maillet (now tenth), 267 of Shipulin and 263 Tarjei B ø ;.
In the early afternoon disputer & agrave; the 'similar women's race, the last race before the 2015 Solar dell''anno traditional Christmas break, in which will be held & agrave; December 28 the World Team Challenge, test-exhibition of Gelsenkirchen.
The World Cup will come back & agrave; in action on January 7 in Oberhof. Weather permitting, why & eacute; the resort & agrave; German heard the voices of big problems of snow. The 'Ibu decider & agrave; Wednesday & Igrave; Dec. 23 if you leave the stage in Thuringia.
POKLJUKA - MASS START MASCHILE1. Jean Guillaume Beatrix [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 35''33 "72. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) to 0" 33. BJ & Ø RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) 2 "54. Simon SCHEMPP [GER] (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) 2" 55. Andreas Birnbacher [GER] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 7 "26. DESTHIEUX Simon [FRA] (0 + 1 + 0 + 0) 11" 47. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (2 + 0 + 2 + 0) 17 "88. B & Ø Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) 21" 49. WINDISCH Dominik [ENG] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) 24 "810. FILLON MAILLET Quentin [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) 24" 8
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M Mass Start Pokljuka (SLO)
BEATRIX Jean-Guillaume
SVENDSEN Emil Hegle
BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar
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A Jean Guillaume Beatrix the mass start, Bjrndalen podium, 9 Dominik Windisch
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