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The 'masculine pursuit of Hochfilzen offers a milestone in the history of the biathlon, the 100th victory of France. A sign it Martin Fourcade, who gave the 'umpteenth show of strength.
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The transalpine, after a start relatively sly, he missed two targets at the second polygon finding himself on more than 40 "from the leading duo, composed of very solid Simon Schempp and a wild Anton Shipulin.
The Catalan has therefore included a higher gear in the third round and found zero in the first standing shooting, where instead the German made a mistake once and the two Russian. Fourcade was then canceled by the delay in the Teutonic fourth round, dragging Tarjei B ø with s & eacute ;, while behind them the twenty-eight of Tyumen was desperately trying to get back.
The polygon is conclusive Fourcade & egrave; become the protagonist of a new class test, covering all targets pi & ugrave; Schempp quickly and then stretch on him to the finish line, cut in triumph by the French and the square of 'honor by ventisettene Baden-Wü; rttemberg. The podium & egrave; was completed by Shipulin thanks to a trailing zero and contemporary error Tarjei B ø ;, relegated to fourth.
So victory number 100 in top-level competitions for France. The goal had been achieved previously only by Norway and Germany, countries that for & ograve; They have led to the most successful & ugrave; twenty athletes over the years.
In contrast, France has set out our successes with "only" seven different men. Surely the fact of having given two phenomena which Raphael Poir & eacute; and (44) and Martin Fourcade (42 and counting) has helped, but it turns out some today as the French school is among the best in the world and is able turning out competitive athletes bagful in spite of a number of practitioners far from that of other superpowers.
Returning to the race today, the rest of the competition & egrave; always stayed away from the Fantastic Four giocatisi the podium. Finally go remarkability fifth dell''idolo home Dominik Landertinger, the sixth of evergreen Ole Einar Bj ø rndalen, the seventh of Emil Hegle Svendsen who still lack something to compete with the best, the 'eighth of a Quentin Fillon Maillet riscattatosi after the bad sprint and the tenth of a Jakov Fak finally recovering. Mention 'honor for the Russian Maxim Tsvetkov, eleventh and author of more comeback & ugrave; impressive day.
Instead, they have disappointed Evgeny Garanichev and Dmitry Malyshko, respectively fourteenth and sixteenth, cos & Igrave; as Johannes Thignes B ø ;, twenty-third.
For the 'Italian test along the lines of yesterday. Lukas Hofer & egrave; become the protagonist of un''ottima test shooting (0 + 0 + 1 + 0), but has struggled exceedingly skiing and & egrave; ranked twenty-first. Christian De Lorenzi (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) is & egrave; He confirmed on its thirty-third levels peaking, while Dominik Windisch (0 + 2 + 2 + 2) has again finished just outside the points.
Fourcade continues to lengthen in the overall standings, taking to 254 points against the 201 of Bj ø rndalen, 190 of Fillon Maillet, 186 of Svendsen, 168 of Schempp, 165 Tarjei B ø and 151 of Shipulin.
Tomorrow, at 14.30, & egrave; program it in a relay race. The next race will be men's individual & agrave; the Pokljuka sprint, scheduled for Thursday on Igrave; 17.
Hochfilzen - TRACKING MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 2 + 0 + 0) 31''19 "92. Simon SCHEMPP [GER] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 8" 93. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 0 + 2 + 0) 19 "14. B & Ø Tarjei [NOR] (0 + 1 + 0 + 1) in 31" 25. Dominik Landertinger [AUT] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 39 "86. BJ & Ø RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 + 1 + 0 + 1) and 57" 57. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 1) in 59 "58. FILLON MAILLET Quentin [FRA] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 1''00" 69. Andreas Birnbacher [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 1''01 "410. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 1''05" 9
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SHIPULIN Anton
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