Three wins in a row for Johannes B Thingnes three crystal balls in a row for Martin Fourcade

'' The Pursuit of male Kontiolahti was characterized by a strong wind that put athletes frequently experience difficulties at the shooting range. They are then seen several errors and consequent disruption in the standings, with the exception of the first square, as Johannes BÃ¸ Thingnes achieved a "triple play" and suddenly even today after having already won the two sprint.

Sunday 16 March 2014 6 minutes reading time

The Norwegian has now increased the advantage which he enjoyed at the start, managing to perfection rolls on the ground and in the absence of a single target in the first standing (while behind it rained the penalty turns). The twenty year old Scandinavian, found itself with over 1'' 10 "ahead, you are then able to afford a debacle at the concluding session (4 errors) and winning first place for the fifth time this season. Second place went to Martin Fourcade, who failed to gain ground on young BÃ¸ in the first three laps and then three times on the wrong foot. In any case, the French can celebrate the victory mathematics of his third consecutive World Cup, a goal achieved in the past only by Frank Ullrich (1980, 1981, 1982) and Raphael PoirÃ©e (2000, 2001, 2002). The absolute record holder in terms of crystal balls, however, remains Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, today is not the party, with six hits. The podium was completed by an BjÃ¶rn Ferry to fourth place in the top-three in the last six races. The Swede moved up from sixteenth place of origin and in the last lap he was right'' of the amazing Norwegian Lars Helge Birkeland, the best result of his career. Fifth Klemen Bauer, which preceded the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs, author of a mighty comeback (+35 compared to the differential pectoral). Even the'' Austrian Christoph Sumann, eleventh, you are allowed to recover thirty-four positions. Soprofondati instead many athletes athletes who had behaved well in the sprints, such as Russian Alexander Loginov, the twenty-fourth (-22), Czech Ondrej Moravec, forty (-38), and unfortunately Italians. Lukas Hofer (0 +1 +2 +3) was placed sixteenth, winning the ninth consecutive chase in which he lost ground against the breastplate of departure. Dominik Windisch (1 +1 +2 +3) has instead closed the twenty-eighth. Just to accept Martin Fourcade, as well as having mathematically won the Crystal Ball absolute mortgaged'' s also the pursuit taking his lead to 51 points on Anton Shipulin (fifteenth). The next week you race in Holmenkollen. The program involves sprint (Thursday 20), tracking (Saturday 22) and mass start (Sunday 23). It is only open in the fight for the two steps of the podium in the overall classification where Martin Fourcade is sailing to 798 points with Johannes BÃ¸ Thingnes Taking the second place at 560 using the withdrawal of Emil Hegle Svendsen, stopped after three polygons and nine errors, nailed to 557. Follow Landertinger (525) Malyshko (491), Shipulin (483) and Bjoerndalen (478), now a non-starter. Kontiolahti - TRACKING MASCHILE1. BÃ˜ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 +0 +1 +4) 33'' 37 "12. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0 +2 +1) 16" 33. FERRY Bjorn [SWE] (0 +0 +1 +2) 20 "44. BIRKELAND Lars Helge [NOR] (1 +2 +0 +1) 25" 45. Klemen Bauer [SLO] (0 +0 +2 +2) 28 "76. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 +0 +1 +1) 31" 57. DOLL Benedikt [GER] (0 +0 +3 +0) 31 "78. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (1 +0 +1 +2) 31" 89. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (1 +1 +0 +0) to 32 "110. SMITH Nathan [CAN] (0 +2 +2 +1) 32" 4Clicca here for full results.

Francesco Paone

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