In the sprint of Khanty-Mansiysk Martin Fourcade wins with a "zero" record. The crystal ball which is 3 points

A Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), the final leg of the World Cup biathlon & egrave; opened with the 'yet another demonstration of class and talent by Martin Fourcade, now about to write an unprecedented page of history of this discipline.

Thursday 19 March 2015 7 minutes reading time

The twenty-six Catalan & egrave; imposed in the sprint today without revealing the best skiing narrow component in which he made the fifth fastest time of the day, but once again made the difference at the shooting range, the true cornerstone of his superiority & agrave; nell''inverno 2014 - '' 15. The Frenchman has indeed completed successfully for the ninth time in the current season, equaling cos & Igrave; the primacy of the male "zero" nell''arco of a single vintage racing established by Frank Luck in 2001 - '' 02. With this success Martin Fourcade also won the Cup specialty & agrave; the sprint, climbing at 11 "cups" in career and finally overcoming Raphael Poir & eacute; and, subject to 10. Only Ole Einar Bj & oslash; rndalen, with 20, has done better. A perfect Anton Shipulin prevented the transalpine celebrate gi & agrave; Today even the conquest of Crystal Ball absolute. The Russian has done everything possible, but despite clear evidence to the shooting is & egrave; had to settle the square of 'honor with a delay of 13 "from the winner. In the overall standings the 'athlete of Fort Romeu brings to 117 points on its margin Siberian accordingly nell''inseguimento Saturday the sar & agrave; sufficient to classify the thirty permanently close the accounts and celebrate the fourth consecutive victory in the overall ranking, where moreover Shipulin has mortgaged the second place. Continue instead head to head for third place between Simon Schempp and Jakov Fak who, after closing the sixteenth and eighteenth respectively, are now level on points! Returning to today's race, the podium & egrave; was completed by German Benedikt Doll, the first top-three career. The Teutonic had to give up due to the success of an error sull''ultimo own target, but at least he was right for just three tenths of Andrejs Rastorgujevs forced into fourth place in front of a Nathan Smith which continued on the same level of the sprint world championship and a Arnd Peiffer author of the best time in the background, but had to go twice a 'ring penalty payment agrave ;. The sensational team performance of Germany, who placed four athletes among the first eleven seven among the best twenty-six. Male hand Norway where the best & egrave; the quarantunenne Ole Einar Bj & oslash; rndalen (ninth). Particularly negative evidence of the fresh world champion sprint Johannes Thingnes B & oslash; (1 + 3), even sixty-eighth and even qualified for the 'pursuit. Did little better than his older brother Tarjei (0 + 2), fiftieth. C '' & egrave; little to smile even for the Italian men's team, which results in dry season starts at the end sadly. No blue finished in the points Because & eacute; Dominik Windisch (0 + 2) is & egrave; placed fifty-fourth, Lukas Hofer (2 + 2) fifty-seventh and Thomas Bormolini (1 + 1) seventieth. In Khanty Mansiysk - SPRINT MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 0) 23''47 "02. Shipulin Anton [RUS] (0 + 0) to 13" 03. DOLL Benedikt [GER] (0 + 1) 18 "34. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 + 0) 18" 65. SMITH Nathan [CAN] (1 + 0) 34 "06. PEIFFER Arnd [GER] (1 + 1) 34" 47. LINDSTR & Ã–land; M Fredrik [SWE] (0 + 0) 35 "58. FOURCADE Simon [FRA] (1 + 0) 44" 59. BJ & Ã˜ RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 + 0) 45 "810. K & uuml; HN Johannes [GER] (0 + 1) to 48" 3Click here for full results. Tomorrow at 14.00 & egrave; program in the women's sprint. The men will be back on track at 10.30 Saturday, March 21 with the 'pursuit.

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