Historical victory for Italy in the Mixed Relay of Kontiolahti

First win in the format for the Azzurri who also win the specialty cup, a historic day for Italian biathlon.

Saturday 10 March 2018 3 minutes reading time

At the opening Dorothea Wierer has struggled a lot at the shooting range, where he missed six targets, evenly divided between the two shooting sessions, but was able to use the refills at best. At the first change, Italy then passed sixth to 18 "from Slovakia, Lisa Vittozzi with a series of high-level ground level returned to the top of the race, but was then forced to complete a penalty round at the end of the range In spite of this she managed to stay in the top positions, passing the baton to Dominik Windisch in 5th place. The 'blue has used only two refills on the ground and has found the zero standing and in the last lap has separated fellow travelers, giving a slight advantage to Lukas Hofer, deployed in the last fraction, which had to face the Russian Tsvetkov, the Ukrainian Pidruchnyi and the Norwegian Tarjei BÃ¸. All these athletes have run parallel race in the first part and have played everything for everything in the last series. Here the only one without mistakes was the Ukrainian, the others all made a mistake, but with the refill. Pidruchnyi started the last lap with 5 "of margin on the chasing group, led by Hofer, who was responsible for leading the comeback, completed on the most challenging climb.After the top the Italian has re-launched the action and he managed to take a small but decisive advantage over the rivals that led to the finish line, Ukraine finished second, Norway third, ahead of Russia, fourth on the line. Over a minute the posting of France 5a, behind him ended Sweden 6th, Germany 7th, Austria 8th, United States 9th and Slovakia 10th. Tomorrow will be dedicated to the departures in line, at 13.30 will start the women's test, at 4:10 pm the male one.

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