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In the afternoon, it opened the second stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka female with a sprint race. As in the morning, with the men's competition, the accuracy at the shooting range has been key for the allocation of the podium. The different strategies in the starting order among the top nations were unnecessary, because the snow has remained almost identical in the unfolding of the competition.
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The end to dominate was laura dahlmeier: game with a conservative pace in the first round, she got her first shoot-out and increased its speed in the second round, to get to the second polygon to fight for the most prestigious location. A "zero" at a fairly rapid allowed her to be in the wake of a surprising Justine Braisaz and sverniciarla overwhelmingly last lap.
The French, for its part was author of the best performance in his career, thanks to a new solidity in shooting sessions combined usual step on the narrow very competitive skiing. For Braisaz the tendering scheme was the inverse of the athlete with the yellow bib in fact started to bomb, perhaps asking too much of herself.
Third place for a convincing Mars Olsbu, in line with the win until the start of the last round, but the best step of the two athletes already mentioned has relegated behind them. Actually also had to defend itself from the return of a Kaisa Mäkäräinen unleashed finally separated only 1''5.
For the veteran Finnish has been a fatal error in the second shooting series. Two-time holder of the crystal ball was the first athlete classified to have covered the ominous ring at least once. The excellent recovery has enabled it to climb two athletes with the overall shoot-out: a newfound Franziska Hildebrand and comeback Anastasiya Kuzmina, fifth and sixth respectively.
The German has come back to smile after a first stage of Oestersund with more shadows than lights, while the Russian naturalized Slovak was the return in the maximum circuit with a convincing performance in half: the first part of the race showed us twice champion Olympic in great shape, able to be at the top right away, while the second focused which in the end is not yet in peak condition.
Gabriela Koukalová has had to settle for seventh place. An error in the polygon standing has been balanced at a pace on very competitive skiing: in fact, at the same rpm in the penalty route athletes beat the likes of Miriam Gössner (9th) and Celia Aymonier (10 ^).
The day disappointments have mainly three faces: those of Marie Dorin Habert (17 ^), Tiril Eckhoff (20 ^) and Dorothea Wierer (21 ^). All three have made a mistake between the two shooting series: the French and the Norwegian standing, while the South Tyrolean ground. To underline the lethargic release times for shots Eckhoff and problems for Wierer in the effort in the competition.
Debut with a bang in the World Cup for the former cross-country skier Denise Herrmann 18 ^, already capable of firing with 80% in the competition of two polygons. They have alerted all the teammates, especially Maren Hammerschmidt, still very troubled today which stood just outside the points in 41 th position.
Italian for the good news continues to be scarce: the best is again the aforementioned Wierer, followed closely by Federica Sanfilippo in 23 ^ square herself with an error at the shooting range. Some punticino was brought home by Lisa Vittozzi (35th) and Alexia Runggaldier (40th). For the other two entered the competition was not seized even qualification in pursuit of tomorrow: Nicole Gontier finished in 67th position, while Karin Oberhofer in 94 ^.
In the general classification winner today Dahlmeier (217 points) increased its lead over the second, or Koukalová (168). Following Mäkäräinen (154) and Braisaz (153). For Wierer detachment begins to be heavy, in fact there are 117 lengths to recover the German leader.
Tomorrow afternoon at 14.45 will stage the second round of the Slovenian weekend, with tracking on the basis of today's performance.
POKLJUKA - FEMALE SPRINT
1. DAHLMEIER Laura [GER] (0 + 0) 19'51''72. BRAISAZ Justine [FRA] (0 + 0) to 3''53. Olsbu Mars [NOR] (0 + 0) to 21''34. Mäkäräinen Kaisa [FIN] (0 + 1) to 22''85. HILDEBRAND Franziska [GER] (0 + 0) to 28''46. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (0 + 0) to 30''77. Koukalová Gabriela [CZE] (0 + 1) to 39''48. PUSKARCIKOVA Eva [CZE] (0 + 0) to 39''89. Aymonier Celia [FRA] (0 + 1) to 40''810. GOESSNER Miriam [GER] (0 + 1) to 42''8
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