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After a weekend pause maximum biathlon circuit back in action in North America, the continent from which was missing for five years. From tomorrow the World Cup is staged in Canmore, whose absence from the scene instead lasted for over 20 years.
Wednesday 3 February 2016 8 minutes reading time
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HISTORY Canmore & egrave; one of the four resort & agrave; Canadians to have hosted top-level competitions. The other three are Hinton, Val Cartier and Whistler Mountain.
L & rsquo; s system & rsquo; & egrave Alberta; for & ograve; pi & ugrave; rich in history, having been included in the calendar of the maximum circuit for four different winters. Additionally & egrave; was the scene of a couple of milestones in & rsquo; evolution of biathlon and, to make matters worse, the Olympic Games of 1988.
Quell & rsquo; edition Five circles saw it as a great protagonist of the German & rsquo; East Frank-Peter Roetsch, winner of both medals & rsquo; individual gold offered as prizes (Twenty kilometers and sprint).
The Teutonic was not for & ograve; the biathlete pi & ugrave; medalist Calgary 1988. The GDR was in fact out of the medals in the relay, which was won by & rsquo; Soviet Union. Consequently Valeriy Medvedtsev it iss & ograve; Three medals adding l & rsquo; gold team trials two silvers won in the individual events.
Those Olympics glory also meted & Outdoors, Italy, returned home with two bronze medals. Johann Passler you Classific & ograve; third in twenty kilometers, after which & eacute; & Ndash; together with Werner Kiem, Gottlieb Taschler and Andreas Zingerle & ndash; He was part of the relay team which occup & ograve; the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium behind the Soviets and the West Germany.
However, among those who conquered & ograve; Olympic medals in the glorious years & rsquo; 80 also reads the name of an athlete capable of competing at a high level until the twenty-first century. It is of & rsquo; then very young Sergei Tchepikov, bronze in the sprint and a member of the quartet won the relay race, then be able to have a long career lasting until 2007.
Canmore, inserted for the & rsquo; last time in the calendar of the World Cup 1993- & rsquo; 94, & egrave; over a long oblivion it lasted fifteen years, to be precise until 2009 when organizz & ograve; the World Junior (event however gi & agrave, hosted in 1992).
L & rsquo; edition of the World Championships Youth 7 years ago & egrave; remembered for the double gold Lukas Hofer (sprint and pursuit). Between those and & ograve; a medal in those days you also read the names of Tarjei B ø ;, Simon Schempp, Alexei Volkov, Erik Lesser and Benjamin Weger.
In 2012 and 2015 l & rsquo; s system & rsquo; Alberta has hosted several stages of Ibu Cup before returning finally to the main stage in 2016.
So far in Canmore you were played 8 games male individual level (4 twenty km sprint and 4), two with Olympic value.
Are eight athletes with at least one victory. Among them, the & rsquo; only to have repeated & egrave; gi & agrave; quoted German of & rsquo; East Frank-Peter Roetsch. The other winners are the Soviets Valeriy Medvedtsev, Juri Kashkarov and Alexander Popov; French Herv & eacute; Flandin; Norwegians Eirik Kvalfoss and Sylfest Glimsdal; l & rsquo; Italian Hubert Leitgeb.
Quest & rsquo; last, tragically died in 2012 at the age of 46, conquered & ograve; Canmore just the & rsquo; only victory of his career. He ran 17 March 1994 and the biathlete in Rasen-Antholz was imposed before the Belarussian Vadim Sashurin and the Norwegian Jon & Aring; ge Tyldum.
Moreover the same Leitgeb had obtained, always in & rsquo; Alberta, the first of his three podiums in the World Cup. March 16, 1991 he was placed second in the sprint won Kvalfoss with the German Mark Kirchner third.
Forty-eight hours before that day, Canmore was the scene of a real milestone in the history of the biathlon. L & rsquo; individual conquered by Herv & eacute; Flandin March 14, 1991 is the first victory ever won by the French movement, which became a superpower in the coming years of the discipline.
These snows also have a second, albeit less significant milestone. The pi & ugrave; will have noticed that the achievements are credited to 9. This is because & eacute; Kashkarov and Popov were imposed ex aequo in the sprint of 21 February 1987 sanctioning cos & Igrave; the first statement in dead heat in the history of the biathlon.
In this stage of the men's 2016 program includes sprint at 19.15 on Thursday on Igrave; 4 and mass start at 18:00 on Saturday 6 Sunday closed with mixed evidence.
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