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If women in the individual of Wednesday the wind wanted to play a leading role using the double ax, today in Östersund Eolo decided as discreetly take the stage using a far more surgical scalpel, for which he made electricity a competition that She gave birth to a historic achievement.
Thursday 1 December 2016 9 minutes reading time
As expected, the victory was won by Martin Fourcade, obvious favorite of the eve. The French, however, seemed destined to settle for a placement after the second shooting range, where a strong gust has put a spoke in the wheels. Committed two errors on the first two targets, transalpine had to start over the sequence, recovering well, then no mistake as to the finish.
However, success he seemed booked by Johannes Thingnes Bø, absolutely flawless in the first three shooting sessions, however, giving impression of being in absolute control. Yet the wind decided not to do injustice, starting to blow with force just as the young Norwegian was found in a pitch for his latest work with the rifle.
Even the Scandinavian - until that moment authoritarian to the shooting - he found himself in trouble, missing the first and fourth target. Balanced counting penalties, the match between the Catalan and the Nordic was decided by step skiing and speed of execution at the shooting range. Both factors have seen the twenty-eight of Fort Romeu do better than the twenty-three of Stryn, which then had to bow to his rival for nearly half a minute.
Fourcade was able to celebrate a victory that seemed faded, reaching yet another milestone in his career. It is indeed statement number 50 in top-level competitions, an achievement so far reached only by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. The latter was equaled to the number of successes in that Östersund (11), where Martin has won 11 of the last 15 races go on stage!
For the young Bø it is still received a place of honor that confirms its role as the main alternative to the French in the race for the Crystal Ball.
Just like in the women's trial yesterday, an absolutely impronosticabile Belarus occupied the third position. Incredibly, behind the two star players of this era, it stood Vladimir Chepelin, until now better than ever who finished thirteenth.
The twenty-eight of Mogilev has missed a target at the beginning, but it was the only mistake of his race. On a day in which no one has found the shoot-out and taking advantage of the best of many penalties accumulated by the rest of the starters field, Chepelin has sensationally found on the podium.
Year of birth of the subject in question? 1988, that still adds more his collection of men able to get into the top-three. Currently there are 11 representatives of this class are able to conclude at least one race in the top three, only two less than 1967, which holds the absolute record for quantity. However it is likely to believe that this year will break through portion 200 podiums before Christmas, as with the two today (Fourcade is obviously of the same class) we got to 196 (only 1974, with 287, has done better).
Norway so much in the noble of the league, as Lars Helge Birkeland (Tho, another 1988) equaled the best result of fourth and finished career, while the eternal Ole Einar Bjoerndalen finished fifth.
Both have missed three targets, as many as the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs (born in ... 1988), excellent sixth in front of the Bulgarian Krasimir Anev, which continued in great shape after having already done very well in the Sjusjøen evidence.
Homemade Italian discreet provision of Lukas Hofer (0 + 2 + 1 + 0), nineteenth, and Thomas Bormolini (0 + 0 + 2 + 2), in turn entered into the points with the thirty-eighth place. So - incredibly enough - the male blue field begins the season better than female. Too foul Dominik Windisch (2 + 1 + 1 + 4), only sixty-sixth, while Joseph Montello (2 + 3 + 4 + 3) concluded in the rear extreme.
Male Germany, whose budget is saved from eighth coin Florian Graf (ask too easy to guess the year of birth). Even outside the points Simon Schempp (0 + 4 + 1 + 2), ditched the second polygon by the same burst that shook Martin Fourcade.
Surely there will be no satisfaction even in the Russian team. Anton Shipulin has played the victory before three penalties last polygon did it slip to eleventh place. The twenty-seven Tyumen, however, is the only member of the team to have finished in the top-twenty.
Chepelin aside, the surprises of the day are the Romanian Cornel Puchianu (fourteenth), the Finn Tuomas Grönman (twentieth) and Slovenian Mitja Drinovec (thirty-ninth).
Instead, they have fallen short of expectations the expected Anton Babikov (57th) and Fabien Claude (77 °), in addition to the noble Dmitry Malyshko (80 °), Dominik Landertinger (88 °) and Sergey Semenov (92 °). Not Felix Leitner party.
Tomorrow rest day. Saturday will happening both sprints. At 11.45 he will start the women, while the men will begin at 14.45.
Ostersund - MALE INDIVIDUAL 1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 2 + 0 + 0) 51'33 "8 2. BØ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 + 0 + 0 +) 29" 5 3. CHEPELIN Vladimir [ BLR] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) in 1'24 "3 4. BIRKELAND Lars Helge [NOR] (1 + 1 + 1 + 0) in 2'10" 5 5. Ole Einar Bjorndalen [NOR] (0 + 2 + 0 + 1) to 2'16 "7 6. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (1 + 0 + 0 + 2) to 2'28" 3 7. ANEV Krasimir [BUL] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0 ) to 2'29 "3 8. GRAF Florian [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) at 2'33" 6 9. LINDSTRÖM Frederik [SWE] (1 + 0 + 1 + 1) to 2'43 " 8 10. WEGER Benjamin [oN] (0 + 1 + 0 + 1) in 2'59 "0
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