Pellegrino closes big at BlinkFestivalen: success in the sprint, which Bormolini is good in the last race

The final day at Sandnes also speaks blue, but the Norwegian trip is far from over for the champion from Valle d'Aosta.

Saturday 3 August 2019 3 minutes reading time

Federico Pellegrino takes the whole scene in the grand finale of the 2019 BlinkFestivalen, triumphing in the bottom sprint ahead of the British James Clugnet and the Russian Sergey Ustiugov, adjusted quite easily by the vice world champion of the specialty. For Chicco, the preparation calendar now includes a training period together with the great rival Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, as well as of course Francesco De Fabiani, with his valdostan colleague on the trip to Scandinavia which started at the beginning of the week. In the women's race, Anamanja Lampic had the upper hand (a bit 'surprise), good at reassembling an ace as Maiken Caspersen Falla on the final straight, while the Slovenian party was completed by Visnar's third place. And the final day of Blink dedicated to biathlon? The supersprints did not smile at the blue colors in terms of results, but Dorothea Wierer was the protagonist dominating the semifinal with a double zero that she did not repeat in the final, closing 11th at 36 "from Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, who burned in the sprint Oeberg and Eckhoff. For Lisa Vittozzi, instead, elimination in the semifinals with 7th place and 3 errors, missing the pass for a couple of seconds. To close the great Norwegian evening the test dedicated to boys, with Thomas Bormolini very good at entering the battle and seizing an excellent 8th place, with some regrets for three errors in the two central polygons, and then ending at 39 seconds (with 4 errors overall) ) from the winner, a practically perfect Birkeland that outperformed the competition and preceded compatriot Christiansen, able to pull Martin Fourcade in the sprint for 2nd place, again on the podium but without repeating the duel of the previous day (and waiting for everything winter ...) with Johannes Thingnes Boe, never running for success in the grand final.

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