Simon Schempp the 'Invincible. Historical quintet on the snows of Anterselva

The men's sprint in Anterselva gave a historic achievement. For the first time since the World Cup biathlon athlete & egrave; He managed to win five consecutive races in the same resort & agrave ;. The 'unprecedented enterprise & egrave; It was signed by Simon Schempp.

Friday 22 January 2016 7 minutes reading time

German, forced to stand still over ten days due to illness, has produced a solid performance covering all targets, albeit without forcing ground, while scoring the third performance of day skiing. Schempp, gi & agrave; impostosi Antholz in both sprint pursuits of 2014 and 2015, then realizes the most & ugrave; long series of victories ever in a single resort & agrave ;. Previously Ole Einar Bj Ã¸ rndalen and Johannes Thingnes B Ã¸ They had reached 4 hits in a row. The 'now forty-Hochfilzen and & Ã–land; stersund, the twenty-one in Kontiolahti. Just quest''ultimo & egrave; was, along with & nbsp; Anton Shipulin, the greatest danger to the success of today's Teutonic. The young Scandinavian held a pace unmatched by anyone, for & ograve; two penalty payment agrave; They relegated him to eighth place. The twenty-eight instead of Tyumen & egrave; become the protagonist of a test parallel to that of the winner on skis, but shot much more & ugrave; quickly. However & egrave; He had to settle for fifth place due to an error. On the podium still rose a Russian and a Norwegian, both perfect shot. The place of 'honor & egrave; it was the prerogative of the increasingly & ugrave; brilliant Maxim Tsvetkov, born in 1992 highly decorated junior level and time in progressive growth in the major circuit. Third place instead & egrave; went to the leathery Tarjei B Ã¸ ;, as capable as ever to maximize their potential in a day-no for many big. In particular, Martin Fourcade, who has often struggled in the context of Anterselva, did not affect the usual skiing and most importantly & ugrave; he missed three targets. Catalan is not & egrave; He went beyond the twenty-eighth place, equal to his worst result of the season. The transalpine & egrave; placed just behind Emil Hegle Svendsen, running for success until the second polygon, where a triple error has undermined his chances. France has still found space in the neighborhoods of the standings thanks to Jean Guillaume Beatrix, fourth, and Simon Fourcade, tenth. Important confirmation for Simon Eder, sixth, while the palm of surprise of the day goes to the Bulgarian Krasimir Anev seventh. For the 'Italy comes the best team performance of the season. Home track Lukas Hofer has suddenly regained competivit & agrave; of better days and he concluded 12 & deg ;, having to give up fighting for the podium because of a mistake at sull''ultimo target. Christian De Lorenzi realized un''ottima performance finishing 16 & deg; without penalty payment agrave ;. Two were instead missed targets by Dominik Windisch, accomodatosi to 19 & deg; place. Instead, he failed to qualify all''inseguimento Joseph Montello that, after traveling three times the 'ominous ring, you & egrave; placed 96 & deg ;. For once Martin Fourcade not gaining ground in the overall standings of the World Cup. The Frenchman remains firmly in command with 668 points against 516 Tarjei B Ã¸ ;, 479 Svendsen, 454 and 429 of Shipulin of Schempp. In the ranking of specialty & agrave; the sprint transalpine remains red bib with 210 points ahead of Tarjei B Ã¸ (194), Schempp (180), Johannes B Ã¸ and Svendsen (159 each). Tomorrow scheduled pursuits. The first to take to the track will be women, starting from 13:15, while the men will begin at 15.15. ANTHOLZ - SPRINT MASCHILE1. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 + 0) 23''01 "2 2. Maxim Tsvetkov [RUS] (0 + 0) to 5" 83. B & Ã˜ Tarjei [NOR] (0 + 0) 10 "84. Jean-Guillaume Beatrix [FRA] (0 + 0) 12" 15. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 1) in 13 "66. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 + 0) 15" 87. ANEV Krasimir [BUL] (0 + 0) 17 "78. B & Ã˜ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (1 + 1) in 21" 09. PEIFFER Arnd [GER] (0 + 0) 24 "310. FOURCADE Simon [FRA] (0 + 0) to 29" 4 Click here for complete results.

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