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With a long week of racing in eastern Finland, in Vuokatti, it kicked off the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup which, as usual, brings together under the same timetable for the Fund and biathlon trials.
Monday 19 December 2016 6 minutes reading time
In the category Visually Impaired, absent the Russian team in the last few years at the top of the specialty as a result of the decision notice dall''IPC for the 'doping affair, the Ukrainian Oksana Shyskova twenty-five, three silvers and one bronze at the World Championships of 2015 after four bronze medals - one in the Fund and three in Biathlon - the Paralympics in Sochi, second in the ranking of Biathlon Cup last season, dominating the Finnish leg imposing in all five races scheduled as well as in the Mixed Relay experimental Sprint. The sweep was able to Ukrainian is missed by a whisker, or rather for the errors in the second polygon 12.5 km biathlon where he sets the German Anja Wicker, in the return category Sitting by the US Oksana Masters on the snow after having participated in the Rio Games Cycling in the fifth place in Handbike Stopwatch. Masters is not new to hiking across disciplines: daughter of Chernobyl with the battered body from the radiation to which the mother was exposed, abandoned for seven years in an orphanage in Ukraine was adopted and moved to the United States. His first sporting passion was the Rowing in which he won a Bronze medal in London in 2012 before moving to the Nordic skiing with a Silver and a Bronze in Sochi. Now Oksana, winner last year of the Fund of imposing World Cup in all gari in which he participated, began with an excellent performance the new stagione.In a stage dominated dall''Ucraina, the Standing Oleksandra Kononova category, nineteen year old prodigy in Vancouver in 2010 with a gold in the Fund confirmed by the Olympic title in the Biathlon in Sochi, he began his race to a World Cup that has always escaped. The twenty-five of Kiev, in Vuokatti has emerged in the two races Biathlon (Sprint, and the 'Individual) and Long Distance Fund also picks up the' Silver in the Short Distance which was preceded by compatriot Liudmyla Liashenko. Sprint in the victory went to the twentysomething Japanese Yurika Abe.Ancora Ukraine on in the men's shields where the Sitting Maksym Yarovyi category wins all three races scheduled in Biathlon while his compatriot, the seventeen year old Taras Rad, the third appearance in the Cup World, imposes nell''Individuale and the Belarusian Dzmitry Loban in Sprint despite a mistake to poligono.Nei Visually Impaired starts the season well Swedish ventiduenne Zebastian Modin, the youngest participant in the Vancouver Games where he won a Bronze in the Sprint bottom followed by three medals in Sochi, which is imposed in the Short Distance and Long Distance and closes in second place behind the Sprint to the Canadian veteran Brian McKeever, 10 Olympic gold medals in his career and the 'athlete went closer to take part in winter sports both at the Olympics is when the Paralympics in home games in 2010 was also named to the Olympic team to participate in the 50 km which, however, was not a member. He participated, however, in 2007 in an edition of the World Championships with the twenty-first place in the 15 km free technique. In biathlon, Anatolii Kovalevskyi it requires in the Sprint and Iurii Utkin wins the 'Individual. Two more Ukrainians on the top step of the podio.Nel Fund category Standing, a victory in the Sprint and two fourth places for the 'Ukrainian Grygorii Vovchynskyi, first place in the Short Distance of the French Benjamin Davet and Long Distance for' Ukrainian Ihor Reptyukh which also imposes the Sprint Biathlon where nell''Individuale wins Norway's Nils-Erik Ulset.
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