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'' The Pursuit of Pokljuka has not proved spectacular as expected the day before, at least as far as the race to win, to "blame" Kaisa Mäkäräinen, managed to get the first statement of the season and returned success after fasting for over two years.
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The Finn has covered all the targets in the first half of the race leading to share his streak of 12 consecutive clean polygons on the ground (do not miss from the sprint in Antholz). The thirty-one of Ristijärvi has thus built a large advantage over the competition and was then able to limit those mistakes that standing in the last two years'''' were often sentenced to placings.
Mäkäräinen then confirmed to be in great form on narrow skis doing better than Tora Berger'' in the last lap. The Norwegian, encouraged the vigil, finished in second place for an error of too much shooting and especially struggling to hold their own in the bottom with the winner. In any case, the Scandinavian touches share 60 podiums in his career, becoming the fifth woman to reach this threshold after Magdalena Forsberg, Uschi Disl, Kati Wilhelm and Magdalena Neuner.
Instead, for Dorothea Wierer, able to take advantage of the favorable opportunity'' provided by a chase where so many favorite games are very late, it's the first place in the top-three in the maximum circuit. The'' blue, always remained in the top positions defending skiing narrow and limiting mistakes, he built his third place at last polygon'', which was released with zero unlike Darya Domracheva, Andrea Henkel and Katharina Innerhofer, arrived in his company at the decisive shot, then place themselves respectively the fourth, sixth and seventh (among them was inserted Tiril Eckhoff, fifth)
Wierer becomes the third Italian to reach the podium in the World Cup after Nathalie Santer (15) and Michela Ponza (7). In fact, this last had signed the'' last'' top-three of the women's movement blue, March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. About Italy another good test of Nicole Gontier (2 +0 +0 +2), eighteenth, which, however, has managed to gain access to the mass start tomorrow. The aforementioned Ponza (0 +1 +0 +1) concluded thirty-eighth, while no match Karin Oberhofer.
The fight for the crystal ball gets hot. Net waste Berger remains yellow bib with 550 points and is chased by Mäkäräinen and Domracheva (now capable of recovering twenty-four positions compared to the original one), unplug respectively 00:39 lengths.
The ranking of specialties'' s pursuit instead sees Mäkäräinen the lead with 247 points against 225 Berger, 211 and 202 of Eckhoff of Domracheva.
POKLJUKA - TRACKING women1. Mäkäräinen Kaisa [FIN] (0 +0 +1 +1) 32'' 01 "02. BERGER Tora [NOR] (1 +0 +1 +0) 19" 73. WIERER Dorothea [ENG] (1 +0 +2 +0) 54 "54. Domracheva [BLR] (1 +0 +1 +1) in 1'' 20" 45. Eckhoff Tiril [NOR] (1 +1 +1 +1) in 1'' 29 "26. HENKEL Andrea [GER] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 32" 77. INNERHOFER Katharina [AUT] (0 +1 +2 +1) to 1'' 47 "68. VILUKHINA Olga [RUS] (1 +0 +1 +0) 2'' 13" 19. VIROLAYNEN Daria [RUS] (0 +1 +2 +2) 2'' 26 "510. GASPARIN Selina [ON] (0 +0 +1 +2) 2'' 31" 0Clicca here for full results.
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Women Pursuit Pokljuka (SLO)
MÄKÄRÄINEN Kaisa
BERGER Tora
WIERER Dorothea
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Dorothea Wierer third'' in pursuit of Pokljuka behind Mkrinen and Berger!
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