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

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

Saturday 18 February 2017 6 minutes reading time

SEASON 2016-2017Nella season were played 3 mass start in which they are imposed as many different athletes and they are on the podium a total of seven different men. The three to have excelled in this format are Martin Fourcade (Nove Mesto), Simon Schempp (Oberhof) and Johannes BÃ¸ (Antholz). Fourcade and Schempp are also athletes to boast more podiums in the current winter (2). German (1-1-0) associates a second place to his win, mind French (1-0-1) also collected a third position. In addition to the victory, Johannes BÃ¸ has never resubmitted to the podium. Erik Lesser and Quentin Fillon Maillet got a second place; while Anton Babikov and Anton Shipulin once stood in third place. So up to now on the podium of the mass start waved the flags of the four superpowers of the discipline: Germany (1-2-0), France (1-1-1), Russia (0-0-2) and Norway (1-0- 0). Three of these four nations have entered two athletes in the top-three (Germany, France, Russia). As for the 'Italy, the best result is 12th place in Antholz Dominik Windisch, who qualified for all three departures scheduled go on stage so far. Lukas Hofer has instead concluded 28th nell''unica mass start in which he took part. THIS THE START LIST PROVVISORIANOTA NOTE: The final start list will be made official only after 12.45 pm on Sunday. STORY MASS START IRIDATADal 1999-2016 there are 10 different world champions, members of 5 different countries. Among them the most successful of all is Raphael PoirÃ©e. French is the only man to win the 'world championship gold to 4 times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004). Moreover also it holds the record of consecutive victories (3) when no one else was able to open a minimal winning streak. In terms of nations, commanding Norway with 6 statements, followed by France at 5. Then comes Germany at an altitude of 3 hits. They were imposed in 1 occasion Austria and Slovenia. Therefore a superpower like Russia has not yet been able to win a world championship starting in line, stopping 4 times a silver medal, and 3 to the bronze. Are 7 the biathletes in activities to claim a world title in the mass start. It is the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (2003, 2005), Emil Hegle Svendsen (2008, 2011), Tarjei BÃ¸ (2013) and Johannes BÃ¸ (2016), Austrian Dominik Landertinger (2009), the French Martin Fourcade (2012) and by Slovenia's Jakov Fak (2015). Four members of this sextet have the bulletin board also medals of less valuable metals. Bjoerndalen got 2 silvers (2001, 2008) and three bronzes (1999, 2000, 2016); it has a 1 silver to Svendsen (2013) and Fourcade (2016); and 1 bronze for Tarjei BÃ¸ (2015). In addition to the seven world champions, in activities we find other four men on the podium of a mass start of the World Cup. This is Anton Shipulin (silver in 2013), Ondrej Moravec (silver in 2015), Lukas Hofer (bronze in 2011) and Fredrik LindstrÃ¶m (bronze in 2012). The third place of the twenty-six South Tyrol, now arrived six years ago, it is also the 'only Italian medal in this format. AS '' THE WORLD OF OSLO 20161. BÃ˜ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 37''05 "12. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) 2" 83. Ole Einar Bjorndalen [NOR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 6 "74. WINDISCH Dominik [ENG] (1 + 0 + 0 + 1) 19" 85. PEIFFER Arnd [GER] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) 19 "96. BÃ˜ Tarjei [NOR] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) 21" 87. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 + 0 + 1 + 0) 21 "98. SEMENOV Sergey [UKR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 31" 69. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 1 + 0 + 1) to 41 "7 41" 010. BAILEY Lowell [USA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) Click here to read the full report of the race.

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