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After Emil Hegle Svendsen won both the sprint that'' s pursuit, Martin Fourcade also dispels the taboo-Oberhof. The Frenchman won the first victory of his career on the slopes of the Thuringian thanks to a majestic last polygon.
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In fact, the twenty-five Catalan occurred at the concluding session of shooting in the company of five other athletes and he quickly covered all the targets fly away towards the lone victory number 28 in his career, the fourth of the season.
The head of that group of only Alexey Volkov was equally precise, but nothing has been against Fourcade. The Russian anyway nimbly defended the square of honor'' and achieved the best result of his career.
Loginov, Shipulin, Svendsen and Stephan have instead repeatedly wrong and slipped respectively'' s eighth, eleventh, twelfth and sixteenth place finish. In any case, it should be emphasized as the Norwegian had spent far more opponents in the fourth round.
Taking advantage of the best of the errors others, Tarjei Bø finished in third place in the final lap having reason to Andreas Birnbacher (fourth), Ondrej Moravec (fifth) and Lukas Hofer (seventh). The'' blue in the final was sucked by Dominik Landertinger (sixth), again in trouble skiing close this weekend. Today, however, did well to maximize their potential by covering all twenty targets.
The past few days so perky Bjørndalen today turned in a competition anonymous (6 errors) and did not go beyond the twenty-first position.
It should be noted how the podium is monopolized by athletes born in 1988, in the men's class strong and destined to become one of the richest ever.
Martin Fourcade, who did not participate in the stage of Ruhpolding, extension in the overall standings of the World Cup reaching 462 points. Svendsen followed at 293, 258 and Johannes Bø Bjørndalen 255. In other words, the Frenchman is certain to wear the yellow bib also on his return in the maximum circuit in Antholz.
OBERHOF - MASS START MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (1 +0 +0 +0) 37'' 39 "42. VOLKOV Alexey [RUS] (0 +0 +0 +0) to 5" 23. BØ Tarjei [NOR] (0 +1 +1 +0) 19 "04. Andreas Birnbacher [GER] (0 +1 +1 +0) 21" 65. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (2 +0 +0 +0) to 26 "26. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (1 +0 +0 +0) 28" 97. HOFER Lukas [ENG] (0 +0 +0 +0) 29 "68. LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (1 +0 +0 +2) 30" 59. BURKE Tim [USA] (1 +1 +0 +0) to 31 "310. Malyshko Dmitry [RUS] (1 +1 +1 +1) to 31" 7Clicca here for full results.
The next week he is in Germany, but we move in Ruhpolding, Bavaria. The program includes a relay (Thursday 9th), an individual'' (Saturday 11) and a chase (Sunday 12th).
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Men Mass Start Oberhof (GER)
FOURCADE Martin
VOLKOV Alexey
BOE Tarjei
Biathlon - Oberhof
Martin Fourcade wins mass start in Oberhof. Lukas Hofer seventh
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