After the hangover of stersund, the Italian biathlon share from Hochfilzen [Start List and Presentation]

The second stage of the World Cup biathlon will go & agrave; staged in Hochfilzen (Austria). The program provides women sprint Friday & Saturday Igrave ;, tracking (both starting at 11.30) and via the relay race Sunday (15/11).

Thursday 10 December 2015 6 minutes reading time

NEWS & rsquo; The stage & Ã–land; stersund has borne great balance with three different winners and seven different athletes on the podium of the three races sailed. Among them also the Italians Dorothea Wierer and Federica Sanfilippo, authors of a great start to the season. The Italian team will try therefore & agrave; to repeat the good things done in Sweden, while there & rsquo; & egrave; curiosity & agrave; to understand what could be the performance of M & Kaisa auml; k & auml; r & auml; inen on skis tight. If you really in Scandinavia had not yet disposed of workloads, will & agrave; interesting to see her step into Austria. Â HISTORY Hochfilzen is a milestone for the women's biathlon Since & eacute; It was the scene of the first race in the history valid for the World Cup. Ran December 17, 1987, he was held un''individuale won by Norwegian Anne Elvebakk before the Swedish Eva Korpela and all''altra Norwegian Siri Grundnes. Until the mid & agrave; the early '90s the presence of resort & agrave; Tyrolean in the calendar of the World Cup & egrave; was occasional (1987, 1991, 1996), but since 1998 - '' 99 has found its resting place in December, except for 2004 - '' 05, when you are competing & ograve; in March to host the event standings. L & rsquo; & agrave event, however, will come back; a third time in February 2017 and accordingly the stage of the weekend will & agrave; in effect pre-World. In 2000 the 'plant suffered the cancellation due to lack of snow. In return & egrave; was the scene of recoveries 3 times: in 2006, 2008 and 2011, respectively replacing Brezno-Osrblie, Pokljuka and Annecy-Le Grand Bornand. So far in Hochfilzen you were sailed 46 races female individual level (10 fifteen kilometers, sprinting 20, 15 chases, the first mass start), including four with value champion (one for each format in 2005). There are 26 athletes with at least one success. Among them stands out the German Uschi Disl, the only woman to have imposed on 5 occasions (including two world medals, however, it arrived at the end of his long career). L & rsquo; today forty-five Bavarian commands solitary ranking of multi-victorious from a decade and will remain & agrave; unmatched for at least another winter. In fact, none of the women that we will see action in the next few days can & ograve; mathematically reach the German in this 2015. Four athletes activities & agrave; to have imposed on this slope: there are two claims for Kaisa M & auml; k & auml; r & auml; inen and Synn Ã¸ I Solemdal to which it adds 1 to Svetlana Sleptsova and Ã‰va TÃ³falvi. Also there are two successes of Darya Domracheva and 1 Anastasiya Kuzmina, not withdrawn, but & ldquo; still in the pits & rdquo ;. In terms of countries, on the step pi & ugrave; high dell''impianto Austrian waved 10 different flags. The country pi & ugrave; winning in absolute & egrave; Germany (15), followed by Sweden (9). Are then Norway (5); France and Russia (4); Belarus (3); Slovakia and Finland (2); Switzerland and Romania (1). L & rsquo; Italy in its history has collected a single podium, just last year. About Karin Oberhofer, runner in the sprint.

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