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In the women's sprint inaugural Kontiolahti comes a historic result for Finland hostess. For the first time since there is a maximum of two athletes women's circuit Finns made the podium in the same race.
Thursday 13 March 2014 6 minutes reading time
On Thursday dream of biathlon suomi saw Kaisa Mäkäräinen be a prophet in his winning the second win of the season, the seventh of his career, thanks to a step on the slopes close unattainable for all opponents which has an associated only error to fire.
The thirty-one of Ristijärvi, that after a period of more than two years without success has marked two in the'' period of five days, preceded by 6 "1 Olga Zaitseva a perfect shooting and second placing in the top row -three, then resumed after a long dark period.
The podium was completed by a surprising Mari Laukkanen, able to get the best result of his career. The twenty six year old native of Eno has found two polygons cleaned in the same race, a rarity for her, then keep an excellent rhythm in the background, especially in the'' final round, where he competed on equal terms with Tora Berger.
The Norwegian has paid dearly for a mistake in the foot having to settle for fourth place ahead of the ever constant Olga Vilukhina and the Czech tandem composed by Veronika Vitkova and Gabriela Soukalova, back in action with a more than adequate after missing Pokljuka due to an illness.
In contrast Darya Domracheva a protagonist in Slovenia is now caught in a sensational counter-performance. The Belarusian has struggled on narrow skis and missed four targets at the shooting range, ending in a dismal thirty-seventh position due to which he lost heavily ground in the race for Crystal Ball.
Mäkäräinen has now become the leader of the general classification also less waste with 640 points, chased by Berger and Domracheva 627 to 575. It is not yet clear whether the twenty-eight Minsk has had health problems, or if you have had a bad day, for sure will have to react already in the sprint on Saturday if he wants to remain a contender for the overall World Cup.
The ranking of specialties sprint instead has become a struggle for two. Mäkäräinen leads with 289 points ahead of Berger (253). The third, Veronika Vitkova, is at an altitude of 181, while Domracheva of fact should already raise the white flag being slipped to fifth place with 173.
Provide decent, but nothing more, for the Italian trio. Karin Oberhofer (1 +1) concluded twenty-seventh and Dorothea Wierer (1 +1) has placed thirty-third. Outside the points instead Nicole Gontier (2 +1) forty-ninth.
Kontiolahti - SPRINT WOMEN (I) 1. Mäkäräinen Kaisa [FIN] (0 +1) 20'' 30 "62. Olga Zaitseva [RUS] (0 +0) 6" 13. Mari Laukkanen [FIN] (0 +0) to 22 "74. BERGER Tora [NOR] (0 +1) 29" 55. VILUKHINA Olga [RUS] (0 +0) to 30 "7 6. VITKOVA Veronika [CZE] (0 +0) 37" 17. SOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (1 +0) 39 "78. HILDEBRAND Franziska [GER] (0 +0) 49" 29. GWIZDON Magdalena [POL] (1 +0) 1'' 01 "010. Fialková Paulina [SVK] (0 +0) 1'' 02" 5Clicca here for full results.
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Women Sprint (I) Kontiolahti (FIN)
MÄKÄRÄINEN Kaisa
ZAITSEVA Olga
EDER Mari
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