World Hochfizen 2017 - Presentation Mass Start Female [With Start List]

The February 19, 2017 assigning the women's world title sixteenth mass start, format devised in the mid '90s and entered the world championship program since 1999.

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SEASON 2016-2017Nella season were played 3 mass start in which they are imposed on two different athletes and on the whole get on the podium five different women. The two to have excelled in this format are Gabriela KoukalovÃ¡ (Nove Mesto, Oberhof) and Nadine Horchler (Antholz). KoukalovÃ¡ is also the 'athlete to boast more podiums in the current winter along with laura dahlmeier. Both, in fact, they are always placed in the top three. The Czech (2-0-1) associates a third place to his two hits, while German (0-3-0) has always come in second! In addition to the victory, Horchler has never recurred on the podium. Dorothea Wierer and Eva PuskarÄÃkovÃ¡ stood once again in third place. So up to now on the podium of the sprint they waved flags of only three nations. It is those of the Czech Republic (2-0-2), Germany (1-3-0) and Italu (0-0-1). Speaking of Italy, has already said the 3rd place of Dorothea Wierer in Nove Mesto, but concluded seventeenth the other two departures scheduled disputed. Alexia Runggaldier a 6th place. Federica Sanfilippo has qualified for all three mass start, concluding always between 25th and 29th place. In the current winter Lisa Vittozzi however has not participated in any competition in this format. THIS THE START LIST PROVVISORIANOTA NOTE: The final start list will be made official only after 9:30 am on Sunday. STORY MASS START IRIDATADal 1999-2016 there are 15 different world champions, belonging to 7 different countries. Among them a trio was able to win the 'world championship gold to 2 times. It is UKrainian Olena Zubrilova (1999, 2002), the Norwegian Liv Grete PoirÃ©e (2000, 2004) and the German Magdalena Neuner (2008, 2011). So as you can see no woman has yet been able to lead for two consecutive editions. In terms of nations, commands Norway with 4 hits, followed by Germany and Ukraine to 3. Russia has won 2 times, while they are imposed in 1 occasion Sweden, Belarus and France. Are three of the biathletes in activities to claim a world title in the mass start. It is Darya Domracheva (2013), Valj Semerenko (2015) and Marie Dorin Habert (2016). Curiously, all three came to the world in 1986. The thirty year old Belarusian also has also a silver (2011), while his contemporary transalpine has already written the story eleven months ago in Oslo, where she became the first French to establish themselves in a mass start of the World Cup. Now he has a new appointment with the record because, if successful, would be the first woman to win two golds in a row in this format. In addition to the three world champions, among the protagonists of Hochfilzen we are four other girls are able to get on the podium of a mass start of the World Cup. Finland's Kaisa MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen it succeeded twice (bronze in 2012 is that in 2016); They also count a head silver for German Franziska Preuss (2015) and laura dahlmeier (2016) and a bronze for the Polish Monika Hojnisz (2013). Finally we must not forget how the Italian Karin Oberhofer, absent in Hochfilzen because motherhood, but still fully in activities, was bronze medalist in 2015. The third place of the thirty-one in South Tyrol is the only podium finish iridescent blue in this format, but above all it was the first Italian World Championship medal ever at the individual level in the female sector. AS '' THE WORLD OF OSLO 20161. DORIN HABERT Marie [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 35''28 "52. DAHLMEIER Laura [GER] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 7" 33. MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen Kaisa [FIN] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 8 "14. SOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (0 + 1 + 0 + 0) 30" 95. BESCOND Anais [FRA] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) 39 "26. VITKOVA Veronika [CZE] (1 + 0 + 0 + 1) 42" 77. Olsbu Mars [NOR] (1 + 0 + 2 + 0) 43 "98. Franziska Preuss [GER] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) 44" 29. HORN BIRKELAND Fanny [NOR] (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) 51 "110. SKARDINO Nadezhda [BLR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 52" 0 Click here to read the full report of the race.

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