Biathlon, for the mixed relay is immediately world podium

Excellent start for a quartet that continues not to betray.

It opens immediately with a podium for Italy the Biathlon World Cup on the Swedish track of Oestersund, thanks to the third place of the stainless quartet of the mixed relay composed by Didier Bionaz, Tommaso Giacomel, Dorothea Wierer and Lisa Vittozzi, historically bearer of satisfactions for our colors.

This time the lineup led by Klaus Hoellrigl è placed behind the unreachable France (Fillon Maillet/Jacquelin/Braisaz Bouchet/Jeanmonnot), which completed the course with an overall time of 1h09'09''9, made up of one lap penalty and 5 reloads, while in second place was Norway (T. Boe/J. Boe/Knotten/Tandrevold) at 15''7, with only seven reloads. Our quartet, on the other hand, shot once with Giacomel in the second fraction that ended in third place, while Wierer (not in the best of condition after a flu-like state in recent days) and Vittozzi nibbled away ground in polygon after polygon, until allowing the Sappada-born Caraninieri Sports Center’s Sappadina to reach the finish line without any trouble, with a total of nine reloads. Off the podium were Germany, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

Previously, the mixed single relay had been staged, dominated by the home team of Sebastian Samuelsson and Hannah Oeberg, who set the time of 37'46''9, the result of only eight reloads and zero penalty laps. Second place for Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid and Juni Arnekleiv, distanced by 13''8 with six reloads and zero penalty laps; while France’s Fabien Claude and Julia Simon rounded out the podium with third place at 42''2 with 12 reloads and as many as two penalty laps. Eleventh position for the blue duo consisting of Lukas Hofer and Rebecca Passler, conditioned by 13 reloads, although without penalty laps, lagged 1'38''2 behind the winners. On Sunday, Nov. 26, the program includes individual races (women at 11:20 a.m., men at 2:30 p.m.).