Martin Fourcade without limits. For him three records in one shot

Yesterday won the World Cup, however, Martin Fourcade was not shown to be absolutely satisfied by completing the long run-up to the record of victories set in 2004-'05 by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. And not only.

Saturday 4 March 2017 6 minutes reading time

Men's pursuit of PyeongChang French has indeed won the twelfth success of its winter, equaling the long-standing record of the Norwegian. To do so he had the best in a long standoff with the Austrians. Transalpine took command of operations after a double fault tread Julian Eberhard second polygon and has always had to push hard to hold off the thirty-rot-weiÃŸ-rot, in the meantime reached by compatriots Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger. For the twenty-eight of Fort Romeu certainty of success came only in the fourth shooting range, where he completed the shoot-out and as a result a perfect race, fly away to the sixty-first statement of career and, in fact, the number 12 of winter. Fourcade at the same time has set two more records, related to the chase format. Nobody ever in history had excelled for six consecutive times and was on the podium for 7 competitions in a row. The phenomenal Catalan has therefore pushed even where ever the aforementioned Bjoerndalen, Raphael PoirÃ©e and Emil Hegle Svendsen had managed to arrive. At this point one wonders if Martin decides to take part in every race from here to the end of season, so as to improve eventually the primates already established in this amazing 2016-'17. Finally the Austrians above all have wrong the fourth polygon, inexorably losing positions. Eberhard has still been able to defend the third position, while Eder was fourth and Landertinger slipped to seventh place. The place of honor was therefore the preserve of Anton Shipulin, climbed inexorably from penalizing twenty-third square of departure. through the provision of high profile, he has harpooned the podium number 38 of his career, making it alone the tenth all-times for top-three in the maximum circuit The Russian has not missed any target and,. In good performance overall for the blue Lukas Hofer, had long been fighting for the top positions, if not for the podium. But Blue has missed two targets at the final shooting session, concluding in a still prestigious tenth. Too imprecise Dominik Windisch (0 + 3 + 1 + 0), twenty-second at the finish line. Joseph Montello (0 + 1 + 2 + 1) could not be confirmed in the points, closing forty-sixth. The great comeback of Shipulin holds open the race for the specialty, as Fourcade Cup leads the standings with 107 points dedicated when 120 remain to be allocated. In the general standings however, with Fourcade already mathematically first at 1128 altitude, Shipulin strengthens the second position with open 732. Fight for the lowest step of the podium with Schempp to 673, Johannes BÃ¸ and Julian Eberhard to 621. Tomorrow room for relay events. Women take to the track at 8:30, but men at 11.45. Pyeongchang County - CHASING MALE 1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 31'24 "2 2. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 34" 5 3. EBERHARD Julian [AUT] (0 + 2 + 0 + 1) to 36 "7 4. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 + 0 + 0 + 2) in 1'03" 2 5. GARANICHEV Evgeny [RUS] (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) to 1'09 "5 6. DESTHIEUX Simon [FRA] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) to 1'13" 5 7. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (0 + 0 + 0 + 2) to 1 20's "3 8. DOLL Benedikt [GER] (0 + 0 + 1 + 1) a1'20" 4 9. BAILEY Lowell [USA] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) in 1'20 "6 10. HOFER Lukas [ITA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 2) in 1'20 "6 Click here for the full results.

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