Jakov Fak won hands down the sprint Holmenkollen'' s Italy defends 5 seats

Jakov Fak redeem, at least partially, a season gone bad due to an injury suffered after a fall on roller skis in the fall. The Slovenian, who was forced to give up the intention to close the overall ranking in the top three and remained dry medals in Sochi, dominated the sprint at Holmenkollen.

Thursday 20 March 2014 5 minutes reading time

The twenty six year old native of Rijeka has taken the luxury of time to achieve the best day of skiing close and was able to prevail despite a mistake at the shooting stand. In fact, there have been serious threats to its success, since so many favorites, as well as be beaten in the end, it came out clean from the polygon. The square'' s honor was therefore the preserve of Evgeniy Garanichev who apparently likes to overly the context of race in Oslo, as it has today received the ninth podium of his career, the fourth on the slopes of the Norwegian capital. The twenty six year old Russian, perfect pitch, was equipped with a small margin of Fak after the second polygon, but could not hold a candle in the'' last lap but still managed to defend second place by BjÃ¶rn Ferry. The Swede is closing at its greatest competitive activity and has racked up his fifth podium in the last seven races just three seconds ahead of another Russian, or Alexander Loginov. The top-three instead continues to escape the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs, forced to fifth place by an error on the ground. Many big have not experienced a good day to shoot, and of course, being a test at the end of the season with a very low stakes, have not pulled the neck skiing tight. Svendsen (1 +1) finished tenth, Martin Fourcade (1 +1) eleventh, BjÃ¸rndalen (0 +1) twelfth, Johannes BÃ¸ Thingnes (1 +1) eighteenth, Landertinger (0 +1) twenty-third. Race is not exciting for the Azzurri since Dominik Windisch (1 +1) was placed thirtieth and Lukas Hofer (1 +2) thirty. Fortunately, the Canadians did not shine and consequently the'' Italy has managed to defend with a minimum margin of 9 points on the tenth place in the ranking by nation and its right to have a contingent of five men also in 2014 - 15'' . With Fourcade winner of the World Cup is a mathematical absolute Cup sprint specialties, the only reason'''' s interest is the fight for second and third place in the overall standings. Svendsen has taken the place of honor'' (588) to the detriment of young BÃ¸ (583) with Landertinger (543), which has lost ground. Saturday, always at 15.30, the'' pursuit. Holmenkollen - SPRINT MASCHILE1. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 +1) 26'' 05 "92. GARANICHEV Evgeniy [RUS] (0 +0) to 13" 93. FERRY Bjorn [SWE] (0 +0) 14 "34. LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (0 +0) 17" 35. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (1 +0) 25 "56. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 +1) 31" 17. DESTHIEUX Simon [FRA] (0 +1) 34 "47. BERGER Lars [NOR] (0 +2) 34" 49. Jaroslav SOUKUP [CZE] (0 +1) 35 "310. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (1 +1) 38" 6Clicca here for full results.

Francesco Paone

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