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Third career podium, first in the format for the young blue, never so competitive on tight skis.
Friday 9 March 2018 3 minutes reading time
Great performance of the Italian who, after making a mistake in the standing session, finished the third position today's race 5 "from the winner. In particular, the time recorded by Vittozzi in the fund was impressive, as he paid only 16 "to Domracheva, the best in this part.
The Belarusian and Franziska Hildebrand have dueled for the victory. At the end of the last polygon the German, perfect shooting, had 17 "margin on the rival. During the final round the advantage progressively decreased but it seemed sufficient to comfortably win the victory. At 700 m from the finish line Hildebrand was still ahead for 8 "but went into a black crisis, closing at the end in second place, 5 tenths from Domracheva (0 + 1).
Fourth position for Yuliia Dzhima with the zero, the 'Ukrainian ended its test at 12 "from the podium and preceded Dahlmeier 5th with a mistake, Veronika Vitkova 6th, Vita Semerenko 7th, Marie Dorin-Habert 8th, all with zero Maren Hammerschmidt 9a and Kaisa Mäkäräinen 10a also entered the tenth.
In the general classification the Finnish remains the leader and now has 623 points, 35 more than Kuzmina, today only 30th.
Good test on skis but not so much at the polygon, where he made two mistakes, equally distributed between the two series, for Dorothea Wierer, at the end of 18th. Outside the area, instead, the other two Italians in the race, Nicole Gontier and Federica Sanfilippo, both with three missed targets.
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Women Sprint Kontiolahti (FIN)
DOMRACHEVA Darya
HILDEBRAND Franziska
VITTOZZI Lisa
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Lisa Vittozzi gets on the podium in the Sprint of Kontiolahti won by Domracheva
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