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It ends as it had started, with a victory of Martin Fourcade, the season of World Cup Men's Biathlon; French conquers also the only specialty Cup who had not won in advance and reach a height of 20 Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
Monday 20 March 2017 6 minutes reading time
The French definitely takes command of the exit operations of the third polygon when only his compatriot Jean Guillaume Beatrix and Michal Å lesingr maintain a perfect score with him. Fourcade attacks on skis and in a round buckles twenty seconds to breakaway companions, in blissful solitude faces' last session standing, without penalty and continues its triumphant march towards the fourteenth win of the season, just Magdalena Forsberg in 2000/2001 knew do the same, and the podium twenty-second to put a nearly perfect race - 100% shooting, the third time on skis - the definitive seal on a season for which it is difficult to find appropriate adjectives.
With Slesingr and Beatrix who make mistakes nell''ultima session and glide in sixth and seventh place, second place goes to the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs, the fastest on track today to mitigate the damage of two penalties, which destroys nell''ultimo around the '' Austrian Simon Eder. For Latvian is the first podium in the World Cup, where the race format today had never gone beyond the fifth place last year in Canmore, for the 'Austrian the third step of the podium confirms in the same format in which to Hochfilzen won the Bronze medal.
Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen resists final all''attacco of Arnd Peiffer and closes in fourth place at 42.2 from Fourcade, the fifth German and, after Slesingr and Beatrix, eighth and ninth Garanichev Krcmar, all in the space of three seconds.
Simon Schempp fails nell''impresa the defense of the first position in the specialty Cup for which he had to defend a lead of 22 points. The German holds the Fourcade rhythm until the second range where an error does down to the grave. A penalty in each of the standing sessions off any dreams of glory at the end is the sixteenth jumped in ranking from French.
The best of the Blues Dominik Windisch paying a penalty to the ground and three penalty up and closes in nineteenth position in 1''37 "3 by the winner. Performance to forget at the shooting range to Lukas Hofer with two errors for each shooting session a sad ending thirtieth place.
The final general classification sees Martin Fourcade with the record of 1322 points share, according to Anton Shipulin is with 918 points and third Johannes Thingnes Boe (812). The best of the Italians is Dominik Windisch, fourteenth with 525 points.
Top-act, Martin Fourcade bypasses Simon Schempp in the ranking of the specialty Cup for the Mass Start; French closes to 248 points, 17 more than in German. And '' Anton Shipulin third with 177 points. Dominik Windisch is the eighteenth with 96 points.
OSLO - MASS START MEN
1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) on 37.32.22. RASTORGUYJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) to 17:43. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) at 32.44. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 1) in 42.25. PEIFFER Arnd [GER] (0 + 0 + 1 + 1) in 42.56. SLESINGR Michal [CZE] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) at 42.97. Jean Guillaume Beatrix [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) at 44.38. GARANICHEV Evgeniy [RUS] (1 + 0 + 1 + 1) in 45.69. Michal Krcmar [CZE] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) to 46,710. Babikov Anton [RUS] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) to 51.9
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