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The advantage gained by Johannes Thingnes Bø after the sprint yesterday it was the obvious favorite for the'''' tracking today. The young Norwegian has not lived up to expectations and has signed an'' other performance worthy of a top athlete consumed.
Sunday 15 December 2013 7 minutes reading time
The twenty year old has always done Scandinavian race head missing his only target in the second shooting session. In fact, the younger brother of Tarjei had no rival and won absolute fluency in the second victory of his career.
Square d'' to honor Erik Lesser, author of a great performance shooting where he did not commit any error. The twenty-five of Thuringia, which with today'' s got the second best result ever, it has given to Germany's first podium of the season. In fact, so far the German team while achieving top ten in industrial quantities was not able to finish in the top positions.
Much the same can be done for Russia got the first top-three in 2013 - 14'' thanks to Anton Shipulin, was able to get right into the final round of Carl Johan Bergman and Swiss Benjamin Weger, both the best result of the season . In particular, the veteran Swede has recovered 23 squares finally presenting itself in the noble of the charts after having recorded only in the relay in the previous stages.
Germany and Russia can also celebrate the sixth place of Alexander Loginov, Christoph Stephan of the seventh and ninth Evgeny Garanichev, all able to reassemble a dozen positions. These are very important results for each of them as emerging from a period of difficulty, although very different in length.
Excellent eighth Canadian Nathan Smith, never so in another career. The North American'' in the last lap he was right, among others, also'' s blue Lukas Hofer, author of 3 errors and who finished tenth. The twenty-four-Alto Adige is again the only Italian in the points as Dominik Windisch (5) forty-sixth and closed his older brother Markus (6) fifty-fourth. Christian De Lorenzi instead withdrew after the second polygon.
It stops at 13 then the number of consecutive podium finishes in the World Cup of Martin Fourcade. The French (3 penalties) has lived a difficult day and was placed seventeenth obtaining his worst result since March 2012, when he closed the twenty-fifth individual World Championships in Ruhpolding''.
Fourcade, however, has become the protagonist of a controversial episode in the final lap. Uphill has engaged with Fredrik Lindström, behind him, and turned around pulling a violent blow to stick to the Swedish release their skis. '' The action has literally broken the staff of the Scandinavian. At least, Catalan, realizing the damage caused'' s opponent, he stopped and Lindström sold to one of its poles.
In the overall standings of the World Cup remains a leader Martin Fourcade with 306 points. Eder chases him to 177 with Johannes Bø Taking the Thingnes in third place at 166. It will be interesting to weigh the Norwegian in the rest of the season to see if he can be competitive on other tracks and become at least a goad to the French in the race for Crystal Ball.
Le Grand Bornand - TRACKING MASCHILE1. BØ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 +1 +0 +0) 22'' 06 "72. LESSER Erik [GER] (0 +0 +0 +0) 37" 53. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 +0 +1 +0) 39 "14. BERGMAN Carl Johan [SWE] (0 +1 +0 +0) 41" 75. WEGER Benjamin [ON] (1 +1 +0 +0) 46 "56. LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (0 +1 +0 +0) 51" 67. STEPHAN Christoph [GER] (0 +1 +0 +0) 55 "78. SMITH Nathan [CAN] (1 +0 +0 +1) 57" 59. GARANICHEV Evgeniy [RUS] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 58 "110. HOFER Lukas [ENG] (0 +1 +1 +1) to 58" 1Clicca here for full results.
Now the World Cup biathlon stops for about twenty days. During the Christmas period will be the always interesting Izhevsk Rifle, or Russian domestic competitions that will serve to complete the quota for racing in January, and the exhibition'' World Team Challenge in Gelsenkirchen.
The maximum circuit will return to action in early 2014 in Oberhof, Germany, where there are three individual competitions. The sprint Friday, January 3,'' tracking the mass start on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th.
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BOE Johannes Thingnes
LESSER Erik
SHIPULIN Anton
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