Martin Fourcade as expected, his'' s pursuit in Hochfilzen

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Martin Fourcade debunks the "taboo Hochfilzen," where he had never won, thanks to the usual superlative performance which is no longer news. The French, pre-race favorite, played cat and mouse with Lars Berger of Norway remained in the wake of up to the first polygon standing where he has taken over.

Sunday 8 December 2013 5 minutes reading time

The twenty-five transalpine has missed only one target, right at the third shooting session after forcing considerably in the previous round, and won the victory number 27 on the velvet of his career, the third in four races of the season. Moreover remodeled further his record of consecutive podium finishes in the World Cup bringing it to 12. The superiority of Martin Fourcade is demonstrated by the fact that a great Emil Hegle Svendsen, while achieving the same score at the shooting range, nothing has been against the younger opponent. Do not mislead the final gap that would undoubtedly have been higher if he had not raised the Catalan. The twenty-eight Trondheim appropriates the first podium of the season as well as Tarjei BÃ¸ third. Fourth place for an impressive Evgeny Ustyugov (+13 differential from baseline) ahead of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (too foul shooting), Simon Schempp and Christoph Sumann. Quest'' was released in the last third position after the last polygon'' but nothing has been able to ski in tight'' last lap. Incidentally France, as well as success, he picked up the'' eighth place with Alexis Boeuf (+20) and the tenth with Jean Guillaume Beatrix. Between the two you have entered the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs, author of a good comeback, having been supported by precision shooting, where he often runs into counterperformance. Lars Berger, perfect to the ground, he was wrong 5 times up and placed fourteenth. At home Italy registered a more than decent performance by Dominik Windisch, twenty-fifth. Christian De Lorenzi instead has not gone beyond the fifty-fifth position. In the overall standings of the World Cup Fourcade leads with 234 points. Svendsen is second at 143, Ustyugov third at 133, fourth at 129 and Eder BjÃ¸rndalen fifth at 127. Considering that the Norwegians will not rush the game in France, it can be said that Martin already has over 100 points of margin on the'' closest pursuer! Hochfilzen - TRACKING MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0 +1 +0) 32'' 43 "32. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +0 +1 +0) 7" 73. BÃ˜ Tarjei [NOR] (1 +0 +1 +0) 17 "64. Ustyugov Evgeniy [RUS] (0 +0 +0 +0) 19" 85. BJÃ˜RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (1 +1 +1 +0) 21 "26. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 +0 +0 +1) 28" 97. SUMANN Christoph [AUT] (0 +0 +0 +0) 35 "28. BOEUF Alexis [FRA] (0 +0 +0 +1) 44" 49. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 44 "910. BEATRIX Jean Guillaume [FRA] (1 +0 +0 +0) to 46" 5 Click here for full results. The next week he competes in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand, France. The men's program provides a relay race on Friday 13, Saturday 14 and the sprint tracking the'' Sunday 15.

Francesco Paone

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