Laura the 'Untouchable. Dahlmeier wipes out the nell''inseguimento opponents of PyeongChang

There's just been playing women's pursuit of PyeongChang. Laura dahlmeier started with the underdogs and allowed no space to the opponent, giving a frightening demonstration of superiority.

Saturday 4 March 2017 6 minutes reading time

The opening lap was achieved by Tiril Eckhoff, playing 8 ", but at the first polygon, the German was perfect, and the Norwegian was wrong. end uncertainty about the victory of the day, as the Bavarian continued his pace never wrong to throw and gradually increasing his margin of advantage over the enemy. The twenty-three of Partenkirchen has even made the shoot-out, winning by over a minute margin despite having pulled the oars in the final lap. For Dahlmeier is the ninth victory of the season, the fifth consecutive. In the history of the only female biathlon Magdalena Forsberg has made a longer streak, coming to eight in the winter 2000-'01. Behind him there was much more fighting, after which emerged Kaisa MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen. The key to the expert of Finnish runner was a zero to the final shooting range, where however many direct rivals have made mistakes. For the veteran suomalainen has 69 career podium, number that allows you to overcome definitely Kati Wilhelm and become the fourth all-time in solitude (a one distance from Darya Domracheva and five withdrawn by Uschi Disl). Third place went to Anais Bescond suddenly ritrovatasi after a long period of darkness. The Frenchman has leveraged the accuracy, missing one target and - as MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen - was perfect final shot at succeeding in harpooning an unexpected podium. Eckhoff finished fourth, affardellata five penalties, just ahead of Susan Dunklee to the disappointed Franziska Hildebrand, came in second place at the last shooting range, but then had to take the unfortunate ring and to place his hopes of top-three. Eighth Gabriela KoukalovÃ¡, prodigatasi in a great comeback highlighted by the fastest time on the narrow skis, but too far away at the start and the author of two errors. Honorable mention for Nadezhda Skardino, eleventh at the finish line, which made the shoot-out has ended for the 18th time in his career a faultless race on four polygons. This is an absolute record, exceeded Albina Akhatova fermatasi to 17. totally anonymous test at home Italy. Dorothea Wierer (2 + 0 + 1 + 1) finished eighteenth. Far behind Alexia Runggaldier (0 + 0 + 0 + 3) and fortieth Lisa Vittozzi (3 + 1 + 0 + 1), forty-third and out of the points. Dahlmeier approaches to further the achievement of the overall World Cup, as it now leads the overall standings with 1023 points. Net of scraps, KoukalovÃ¡ is -144 to -193 and MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen. From here to the end of the season they are giving away 300. Very different the situation in the standings optical tracking specialties. The red bib is defended by MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen with 322 points, against 313 and 299 of Dahlmeier KoukalovÃ¡. The men's pursuit is scheduled at 12.30. The women's program of the Korean leg will finish instead Sunday at 8:30 in the relay. Pyeongchang County - CHASING FEMALE 1. DAHLMEIER Laura [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 27'58 "2. 0 MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen Kaisa [FIN] (0 + 0 + 2 + 0) in 1'12" 6 3. BESCOND Anais [FRA] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) in 1'18 "9 4. Eckhoff Tiril [NOR] (1 + 2 + 1 + 1) in 1'32" 0 5. Susan Dunklee [USA] ( 1 + 1 + 0 + 1) to 1'32 "5 6. HILDEBRAND Franziska [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 1'42" 7 7. DZHIMA Yuliia [UKR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) in 1'56 "6 8. KoukalovÃ¡ Gabriela [CZE] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) in 2'00" 5 9. Olsbu Mars [NOR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 2'04 "1 10. FialkovÃ¡ Paulina [SVK] (2 + 0 + 0 + 0) in 2'04" 6 Click here for the full results.

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