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'' The pursuit of female Kontiolahti race turned out to be the twin brother of the male, or with so many upheavals in ranking due to strong wind gusts which buffeted the polygon, but only for positions behind the first, always remained firmly in the hands Kaisa Mäkäräinen.
Sunday 16 March 2014 5 minutes reading time
The pursuers direct Finnish have already lost out heavily to the inaugural session of shooting and thirty-one of Ristijärvi then took off, running to perfection then its very high polygons and taking the lead in all of the competitors.
The general upheaval has allowed Darya Domracheva to go back to the square'' s honor. The Belarusian has appeared far from his best form on narrow skis, but he built his comeback on accuracy (one missed target in the entire competition).
The podium was completed by Olga Zaitseva despite a disastrous 4 in the first polygon to the ground. The Russian in this season finale is holding a performance reminiscent of his day'' s gold as it has racked up the third place in the top-three in the last four races. '' The Moscow now thirty-six had a reason to'' other veteran, Teja Gregorin, fourth at last.
Defeat of the day Tora Berger, author of no less than 6 errors and relegated to fifth place. Sure c'' is the one who has done worse, should read Soukalova Gabriela (from the third to the twenty-ninth), but this result with the Scandinavian has lost ground in the race for the World Cup.
In fact, in the overall standings Mäkäräinen, four wins and a second place in the last five races, rose to 760 points bringing his advantage to 39 lengths of Berger and 110 on Domracheva. The Finn has also gained ground in the specialty of'' chase rising to +42 and +51 on the Norwegian Belarus.
Returning to today's race, the Italian have not been able to get on top of the wind and therefore wrong to repeat. At least Karin Oberhofer (1 +1 +1 +2) made up four positions by closing the fourteenth. Nicole Gontier (0 +3 +3 +1) has instead closed thirtieth and Dorothea Wierer (4 +0 +3 +1) even outside the points.
The next week, the season closes at Holmenkollen where they are planning a sprint (Thursday 20), a chase (Saturday 22) and a mass start (Sunday 23).
Kontiolahti - TRACKING women1. Mäkäräinen Kaisa [FIN] (1 +0 +1 +0) 30'' 52 "02. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (0 +0 +0 +1) 1'' 00" 03. Olga Zaitseva [RUS] (4 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 54 "34. Gregorin Teja [SLO] (1 +0 +0 +2) 2'' 25" 75. BERGER Tora [NOR] (3 +0 +1 +2) 2'' 38 "36. VITKOVA Veronika [CZE] (1 +1 +0 +2) 2'' 52" 17. Susan Dunklee [USA] (2 +1 +2 +2) 3'' 01 "48. CHEVALIER Anais [FRA] (0 +0 +1 +1) 3'' 07" 29. DORIN HABERT Marie [FRA] (2 +0 +1 +2) 3'' 12 "710. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (3 +2 +3 +0) 3'' 13" 3 Click here for full results .
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Women Pursuit Kontiolahti (FIN)
MÄKÄRÄINEN Kaisa
DOMRACHEVA Darya
ZAITSEVA Olga
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