Russia wins women's relay in Ruhpolding

The women's relay in Ruhpolding resolved by the victory of Russia, so far never been on the podium in this race format in the season, which has won what may be called a successful team as no athlete has achieved the best time in their village.

Wednesday 8 January 2014 4 minutes reading time

Ekaterina Glazyrina, Olga Zaitseva, Olga and Irina Starykh Vilukhina have not run into any kind of counter-performance, as it happened to many other opponents (see Germany and Norway), managing to sap the strength of the German unique series competing for success at a distance. Germany, bereft of Andrea Henkel, plagued by gastrointestinal problems concluded the square'' s honor despite a poor first polygon Franziska Preuss (finite ring'' in penalties). The Teutonic, however, have reported in top positions thanks to a superb test of Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle. Following Laura Dahlmeier and Franziska Hildebrand, without use refills, failed to counter Starykh and Vilukhina. The podium was completed by Norway, author of a race similar to that of Germany. In fact, the launch Tiril Ekchoff messed up (2 rounds of penalty), then Ann Kristin Flatland, SynnÃ¸ve Solamdal and Tora Berger have rebounded to finish in third position beyond the'' restructured training in Ukraine took sides with Nataliya Burdyga instead of Olena Pidhrushna. Staccatissime all other quartets. Italy'' s formed by Dorothea Wierer, Nicole Gontier, Alexia Runggaldier and Karin Oberhofer concluded octave thus obtaining a result in line with the group's potential. In reality, the test shall be considered positive because the Italians have long been in the neighborhoods of the standings and they play the fifth place before capitulating in the final to France, Belarus and the Czech Republic Moreover, Poland, Slovakia and Canada, direct competitors for top-10 ranking by nation (which guarantees a quota of 5 units for next year), they are all finished behind the Italian. RUHPOLDING - RELAY women1. RUSSIA [0 +7] 1:09'' 42 "22. GERMANY [1 +5] to 6" 23. NORWAY [2 +8] 16 "74. UKRAINE [0 +5] 37" 75. FRANCE [1 +5] 1'' 32 "46. BELARUS [0 +4] 1'' 37" 87. CZECH REPUBLIC [0 +5] 1'' 42 "48. ITALY [0 +5] 1'' 42" 79. POLAND [1 +11] 1'' 43 "810. SWITZERLAND [0 +9] 3'' 02" 3 Tomorrow, at 14.30, there is the men's relay. The women will return to action on Friday 10th, at 14.15, with the individual''.

Francesco Paone

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