Gabriela Soukalova wins the'' opening. There comes a historian needed results for'' Italian

A Ã–stersund the wind, which had yesterday lashed the polygon, granted a reprieve, allowing the execution of'' female individual who has kicked off the World Cup 2013 -'' 14. Curiously the first to celebrate the new season is Gabriela Soukalova, which is the same athlete to have won the last race'''' s past winter.

Thursday 28 November 2013 7 minutes reading time

The twenty-four Czech realized the seventh time in the bottom and missed two targets to shoot ahead of 1 "2 Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina, in turn burdened with two penalties, thanks to a final round course in rhythm much more strongly than his sister Anton Shipulin (exit'' from last polygon with 9 "6 plus). In spite of the'' small advantage over second classified, the greatest threats to the success of Soukalova were other, ie Darya Domracheva and Marie Laure Brunet. The Belarusian was superb skiing narrow component where he crashed into the competition, but he made a remarkable 4 errors and as a result has had to sit in sixth place. The French on the other hand, as usual, has made precisely its strength, but a missed target shooting session in its final stop her from winning the coveted first career victory. In each case must be stressed as the twenty-five transalpine seems to be back on the levels that compete after a season anonymously. If France smiles, just as can be done as the'' Italian Dorothea Wierer and Karin Oberhofer concluded in the top ten competing in a'' very good test and signing a historic achievement for the Italian women's biathlon. In fact, never had two blue closed among the top ten in the same race. Wierer scored the best result of his career, while Oberhofer is in third place in the Top Ten. In light of the qualification criteria blue in Sochi, 2014, the two have already earned the so-called "automatic qualifier" for the Olympic Games. At home Italy, which, as we shall see later can claim to have done better than three superpowers of the discipline, they got points for Nicole Gontier, thirty-fifth. Alexia Runggaldier (59th) and Michela Ponza (75th) have instead paid too many mistakes at the shooting range. The fourth Ekaterina Iourieva, who then obtained the best results post-ban for doping, has avoided a resounding debacle at home in Russia since the thirties of Chaykovsky was by far the best of his team. Olga Zaitseva has not gone beyond the seventeenth place. Similar situation in Norway where the'' home waiting Tiril Eckhoff did not betray the expectations of finishing in fifth place and revealing'' the only representative of the Scandinavian country in the early twenties. Tora Berger fact he missed less than 5 targets and closed addirrittura twenty-third, also behind Hilde Fenne and Ann Kristin Flatland. Choral performance of German. Germany, without peak, is the only nation to have placed three women in the top-twenty with Andrea Henkel tenth and fourteenth Laura Dahlmeier. The twenty-year old Bavarian took full advantage of the precision while remaining far from his best form. Franziska Preuss concluded forty-fourth, compromising its performance with three errors in the first polygon. Ã–STERSUND - PERSONAL women1. SOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (0 +1 +1 +0) 47'' 56 "02. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (0 +2 +0 +0) to 1" 23. BRUENT Marie Laure [FRA] (0 +0 +0 +1) 16 "24. IOURIEVA Ekaterina [RUS] (1 +0 +0 +0) to 26" 45. Eckhoff Tiril [NOR] (0 +1 +0 +1) 38 "26. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (0 +0 +2 +2) 44" 77. SKARDINO Nadezhda [BLR] (2 +2 + +) to 1'' 34 "68. WIERER Dorothea [ENG] (0 +1 +0 +1) to 1'' 04" 09. OBERHOFER Karin [ENG] (0 + 1 +2 +0) in 1'' 25 "110. HENKEL Andrea [GER] (1 +1 +0 +1) 1'' 30" 0 Click here for full results. NUMBERS: For Gabriela Soukalova number 5 is the victory of his career. The fourth consecutive considering the last three games of last season. The first in an individual. Consequently, the Czech becomes the twentieth athlete to have won at least once in every race format. Brunet arrives at an altitude of 10 podiums in his career. It is the forty-fourth athlete to reach double figures. However, only the'' Ukrainian Olena Petrova won more placings in the top-three without ever winning. The biathletes be back on track tomorrow from 17.45 for the sprint.

Francesco Paone

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