Ritorno in grande stile per Anton Shipulin nella Sprint maschile di Kontiolahti

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Return in style for Anton Shipulin in the Men's Sprint of Kontiolahti

The great excluded of Pyeongchang 2018, as an athlete "not liked" by the CIO, he showed up in Finland at the top of the form, getting the first success in the 2017-18 World Cup.

Thursday 8 March 2018 5 minutes reading time

The Kontiolahti Men's Sprint (Fin) officially opened the last World Cup period, which at the end of the Finnish stage will see the athletes engaged in Oslo Holmenkollen (Nor) and Tyumen (Rus), and has reserved great surprises. The first, in chronological order, was the last minute for Martin Fourcade, struggling with an intestinal flu. The absence of the French left room for a comeback in the general classification to Johannes BÃ¸, but unable to take full advantage of the opportunity. In the race, the positive surprise was the excellent performance of Anton Shipulin, returning to the races after the 'forced absence of Pyeongchang 2018 and able with the double zero to get the first victory in the season for him and his country, the eleventh in career in first level individual competitions. The Russian has overtaken by just under 6 "the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs, also perfect at the shooting range, something rarely happened in the past.In today's race the 'absolute precision shooting was found to be a necessary requirement to get on the podium, the third place went to Quentin Fillon Maillet who with ten out of ten finished 17 "from the winner. On the other hand, the second polygon by Johannes BÃ¸ was in the negative, leading the race up to that moment but then author of two errors that relegated him to the foot of the podium for a couple of seconds. Opportunity partially thrown also in the general classification, where it recovers 43 points to Fourcade, still leader for 9 lengths. Apart from the first three, all the other athletes who entered the top 10 have committed one to two mistakes, Peiffer finished 5th with a missed target, ahead of a few seconds the French Simon Desthieux 6th and compatriots Erik Lesser and Simon Schempp, 7th and 8th respectively. Good evidence from the Italians Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch, fighting for the top positions up to the last polygon, where they have both made a mistake, and at the end 9th and 10th. 29th position instead for Thomas Bormolini, also with a penalty to the passive. Even in the final the race has reserved great emotions. Ole Einar BjÃ¸rndalen, in fact, started with the bib number 91 in the best race of the season and was in 12th position, after covering all ten targets. The umpteenth class demonstration of an eternal athlete. Tomorrow at 17:45 the Women's Sprint will start.

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