Norway wins the men's relay in Hochfilzen. Italy flirts with the podium

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Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen major players in the men's relay in Hochfilzen, where the'' Italy has played the podium before sinking Ranked'' s last polygon.

Saturday 7 December 2013 4 minutes reading time

The first two positions were occupied by the Scandinavian countries, lingered at the end of the first half. In fact, the Norwegian and Swedish Vetle Sjastad Christiansen Christofer Eriksson had concluded their test respectively in the tenth and sixteenth place. Norway has, however, shown in the top group quickly thanks to a superb test of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. Tarjei BÃ¸ has kept the quartet at altitude before Emil Hegle Svendsen overwhelm the competition in the final fraction. Sweden rather ruefully after the first half was the thirteenth to over a minute by the Norwegians as BjÃ¶rn Ferry has certainly shined. However, Fredrik LindstrÃ¶m, thanks to a spectacular fraction, reported his contact with the top and close Carl Johan Bergman is able to maximize the outcome conquering a'' square'' s unexpected honor. Russia (Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Anton Shipulin and Dmitry Malyshko) finished third at 21 "1, but the podium has a bitter aftertaste because the Russians have played the hit until the seventh polygon where Malyshko has permanently lost contact with Svendsen. The'' mistress of the house Austria, where he excelled in particular Dominik Landertinger, concluded fourth ahead of France and Germany which have closed but very detached and were not a factor in the race for the podium where instead actively participated in the'' Italy. After the'' good test to shoot the first three runners (Christian De Lorenzi, Markus and Dominik Windisch Windisch) has failed its most awaited'' s man, Lukas Hofer, who has messed up having to go to the firing range twice the'' ring of penalties. The blues after having touched the long'' idea to conclude among the top three tenths are finished, also preceded by the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Canada. Placement in truth ungenerous as seen in the quest'' track today. RELAY MALE HOCHFILZEN1. NORWAY [0 +10] 1:19'' 50 "82. SWEDEN [0 +5] 19" 33. RUSSIA [0 +10] 21 "14. AUSTRIA [0 +10] 45" 35. FRANCE [2 +9] 58 "36. GERMANY [3 +5] 59" 5. 10. ITALY [2 +6] 1'' 25 "0 Click here for the full result. Tomorrow, starting from 13.30 l'' tracking based on the results of the sprint yesterday.

Francesco Paone

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