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The 'last race of the World Championships in Kontiolahti has paid great show, if not nell''ultimo around, and you & egrave; ended with the triumph of a real perfectionist biathlon, given declining condition by experts, but has always been able to manage themselves better.
Sunday 15 March 2015 8 minutes reading time
In the first three rounds of the competition tactics reigned supreme so that athletes pi & ugrave; in the form they could amortize the best possible missed targets on the ground and the third shot is & egrave; presented to command a pack of 20 men.
Here the errors are multiplied and the 'exasperated balance & egrave; was partially broken, but the polygon final group of tread still counted eight competitors, half & agrave; of which are able to remount after just imbocato the 'ring penalty payment agrave ;. Among them they found the "zero" only Ole Einar Bj & oslash; rndalen, Tarjei B & oslash ;, Ondrej Moravec and Jakov Fak.
Slovenian, & nbsp; well-known for being a perfectionist nell''ambiente own (ie to be able to express more and 100% of their potential without leaving anything to chance), you & egrave; demonstrated pi & ugrave; brilliant quartet and & egrave; stolen to winning the medal 'gold managing to be right dell''arcigno Czech, finally relegated all''argento. The two Norwegians were played and the bronze in the final pi & ugrave; younger of the two has passed the legendary quarantunenne forced to sit in fourth place.
Behind them Michal Å lesingr finished fifth and once again has not capitalized the brilliant moment of form making it too inaccurate, cos & Igrave; as Johannes B & oslash ;, sixth, Anton Shipulin, seventh and Martin Fourcade, tenth. The 'single blue in the race, Christian De Lorenzi, you & egrave; become the protagonist of a test in line with its potentialities & agrave; eighteenth finishing with two errors.
Nell''ottica race at Crystal ball says this starting line well to Martin Fourcade, who keeps 96 points ahead of Shipulin when missing three races at the end of the season. In other words, even if the Russian had to win the last three rounds, French pu & ograve; afford to always close the thirteenth and still put their hands on the World Cup.
Shipulin instead & egrave; firmly in command of the standings specialty & agrave; the mass start with 188 points, 23 more & ugrave; of Fourcade, 41 pi & ugrave; Moravec, 42 pi & ugrave; of Schempp and 44 pi & ugrave; Fak.
WORLD Kontiolahti - MASS START MASCHILE1. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 36''24 "92. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 1" 03. B & Ø Tarjei [NOR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 3 "74. BJ & Ø RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 10" 25. SLESINGR Michal [CZE] (1 + 0 + 2 + 0) 18 "46. B & Ø Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 + 0 + 2 + 0) 18" 77. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 1 + 2 + 0) to 22 "88. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) 25" 69. FOURCADE Simon [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) 27 "910. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 1 + 2 + 1) 30" 9Click here for full results.
MEDAL FINAL Kontiolahti 20151. FRANCE (3-2-1) [6] 2. GERMANY (3-2-0) [5] 3. NORWAY (1-2-4) [7] 4. CZECH REPUBLIC (1-2-1) [4] 5. RUSSIA (1-1-0) [2] 6. UKRAINE (1-0-1) [2] 7. SLOVENIA (1-0-0) [1] 8. POLAND (0-1-1) [2] 9. CANADA (0-1-0) [1] 10. ITALY (0-0-2) [2] 11. FINLAND (0-0-1) [1]
So the medal was won by France, driven from their tips. Even Germany and the Czech Republic, cos & Igrave; as' Italy, may be satisfied with their World. By contrast between the superpowers Norway, although leading by number of medals, he expected a lot more & ugrave; the voice golds. The great defeat & egrave; for & ograve; Russia, whose federal president Aleksander Tikhonov had set a target 2 gold medals and 6 total.
If the woman cover of Kontiolahti 2015 & egrave; Marie Dorin Habert (two individual golds and two silvers with runners), among men the main protagonist of manfiestazione & egrave; Tarjei B & oslash ;, stronger with 5 medals, although no metal pi & ugrave; fine (1 silver and 4 bronze medals, three of which are individual).
Next week we will go & agrave; scene in the 'last leg of the World Cup. A Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) men will be on track for the sprint Thursday on Igrave; 19 at 13.45 while the Italian 'similar proof female & egrave; scheduled Friday & Igrave; 20 from 14.00.
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FAK Jakov
MORAVEC Ondrej
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