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The sprint Pokljuka, the first race after the Olympics, proved to be one of the most unpredictable competitions and indecipherable in the recent history of the greatest women's circuit values ​​were expressed as totally remixed from the norm.
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'' The unlikely winner today is Katharina Innerhofer. '' The Austrian athlete from 71% in season with huge limits to his feet, he found a day of grace to cover all the targets and shooting at the same time taking a step on the slopes close to the first class.
The many errors of several favored and the accuracy of the twenty-two of Maria Alm are not sufficient to justify the crazy victory of a young girl (born in 1991), but never entered the top twenty in his career. It should be stressed as it is today is the first success in the history of Austrian women's movement, whose sole podium in a race to the first level went up to exactly 30 years ago. On March 3, 1984 Andrea was Grossegger bronze in the sprint World Cup in Chamonix.
'' The anomaly of the competition Pokljuka did not stop the winner. In fact, the piazza d'' honor went to Daria Virolaynen, twenty-four Russian'' s debut ever in the World Cup so far and mostly famous for the'' identity'' s illustrious mother, or Anfisa Reztsova. The daughter'' s art has in turn covered all the targets by paying 9 "2 to 3 Innerhofer and ahead of" Nadezhda Skardino 1, the first athlete with a pedigree in top positions. '' To give an idea of ​​how dramatic the result of Virolaynen, you think that this girl in season struggled to get on the podium in Ibu Cup!
Fourth place for Kaisa Mäkäräinen, detached 27 '0 Innerhofer and as usual too imprecise in foot. Finnish preceded a few seconds Dorothea Wierer (1 +0), which has lost so much in'' last lap, but still achieved the best result of his career in front of the closing Norwegian Tora Berger and Tiril Eckhoff, sixth and seventh, respectively, with two missed targets.
The anomalies continue scrolling ranking. Lyudmila Kalinchik finished eighth, back in the top ten after four, Mars Olsbu was placed tenth, Irene Cadurisch nineteenth, twentieth Victoria Padial Hernandez. The Canadian Emma Lunder, an absolute newcomer in the World Cup, she finished thirtieth. To see the starting numbers maybe the track is sped up with each passing minute, but it should be noted as Innerhofer game with 18, then shortly after Mäkäräinen and Berger and long before Darya Domracheva.
The Belarusian ruler Sochi 2014, but today is mired in twenty-eighth place due to five errors in the polygon, including four standing where she was thrown into crisis by the wind. Therefore the overall standings of the World Cup, net of valuation, see Berger stretch reaching 496 points against 468 and 466 of Domracheva of Mäkäräinen. The ranking of specialties sprint instead sees Mäkäräinen red bib with 229 in front of Berger (210), Gasparin (179) and Domracheva (169).
The best results of his career, today rained in bunches, are also recorded in Italy home. In addition to the aforementioned fifth Wierer, also arrived on the fifteenth post of Nicole Gontier (1 +1). Michela Ponza (1 +0) marked a punticino closing fortieth, while Karin Oberhofer (1 +3) concluded fifty-second. Alexia Runggaldier (0 +3) on the other hand failed to qualify to'' chase on Saturday that, in light of today's result is a sensational comebacks preterà and promises to be extremely spectacular.
POKLJUKA - SPRINT women1. INNERHOFER Katharina [AUT] (0 +0) 21'' 19 "12. VIROLAYNEN Daria [RUS] (0 +0) 9" 23. SKARDINO Nadezhda [BLR] (0 +0) 12 "14. Mäkäräinen Kaisa [FIN] (0 +2) 27" 05. WIERER Dorothea [ENG] (0 +1) 30 "86. BERGER Tora [NOR] (1 +1) 36" 67. Eckhoff Tiril [NOR] (1 +1) 40 "28. KALINCHIK Lyudmila [BLR] (0 +0) 45" 09. Mari Laukkanen [FIN] (0 +1) to 51 "510. Olsbu Mars [NOR] (1 +0) to 52" 3Clicca here for full results.
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