Women Italu biathlon in Anterselva seek glory [Start List and Presentation]

Turning point for the World Cup biathlon entering the second half & agrave; his season. After stops in Ruhpolding circuit arrives in Italy, in Anterselva, second "Great Classical" together with the resort & agrave; Bavarian.

Wednesday 20 January 2016 6 minutes reading time

ACTUALITY'' & Nbsp; HISTORY & Anterselva can ograve; It is called the second of the two "Great classic" Because of the biathlon & eacute; hosted the Women's World Cup in all seasons, with the 'exception of 1988 -' '89. Antholz & egrave; It was for & ograve; often the scene of recoveries and consequently & egrave; become over the years the resort & agrave; where & egrave; played the highest number of top-level competitions. In the women there are about 69 (29 twenty kilometers, sprinting 41, 15 chases, 9 mass start), six with value champion. In fact, women have played in South Tyrol only two editions of the World Championships (1995, 2007) as those of 1975 and 1983 were reserved for men. Are 35 athletes to have won at least victory. Among them stands out Andrea Henkel, only woman to have reached the quota of 6 statements, including 'World Championship gold in the mass start of 2007. The impressive figure on the thirty-nine-Gro & szlig; breitenbach regards the fact that it was able to impose itself on this slope at a distance of 14 years! In fact, he won his first success nell''inseguimento of 22 January 2000, and the 'last in & rsquo; similar format was staged on January 18, 2014. Curiously for & ograve; Henkel has excelled in races exclusively online (2 mass start and 4 chases). France's Corinne Niogret (5 wins) & egrave; instead the only one to have set in all formats. Identify athletes in activities & agrave; to have trod the step pi & ugrave; top of the podium in Antholz & egrave; rather complex. Surely we find the French Anais Bescond, winner of the sprint of 2014, but for the other one enters a gray area. The Belarusian Darya Domracheva (3 statements) and the Slovakian Anastasiya Kuzmina (1) are in fact still in the pits. The Russian then became Korean, Anna Frolina-Boulygina would theoretically activities & agrave ;, but does not take part in international events for a long time. Much the same for Natalia Sorokina-Guseva, which has never announced his retirement, but & egrave; now lost in the maze of the Russian movement. In terms of countries, on the step pi & ugrave; high Antholz waved twelve different flags. Germany & egrave; undisputed ruler with 21 statements. It followed at a safe distance of Norway (11), hounded by France (10). Then come Sweden, Russia, Bulgaria and Belarus (5); Ukraine (3); Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Community & agrave; Independent States and Slovakia (1). L & rsquo; Italy in Antholz boasts one podium, signed by Nathalie Santer, third in & rsquo; individual held January 21, 1993 behind the Bulgarian Iva Karagiozova and Canadian Myriam Bedard. Among the activities in Italian & agrave; there are three top ten, two of which were obtained by Karin Oberhofer. Last year thirty of & rsquo; Army adopted by the Eisack Valley ended the fifth and eighth sprint l & rsquo; tracking, where Dorothea Wierer finished tenth. Federica Sanfilippo has a points finish, in which you have never set foot n & eacute; Nicole Gontier n & eacute; Alexia Runggaldier. Lisa Vittozzi instead has never competed in the maximum circuit Antholz. & Nbsp;

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