The Youth and Junior Biathlon World Championships in Soldier Hollow (United States) officially kicked off today. On the American snow they went on stage the two individual male and female. Races characterized by the presence of wind and particularly cold temperatures (-11 ° C).
In the first test, the 12.5 km men’s race, it was the Finn Arttu Heikkinen to impose itself with two errors equally distributed in the first two polygons, preceding the Slovak Jakub Borgula (1 + 0 + 1 + 0) of 1: 36.9 and German Albert Engelman (1 + 1 + 1 + 1) of 2: 02.3.
Among the blue ranks, excellent but not enough to hit the podium the performance of the Aosta Valley Nicolò Betemps. The blue was in contention for the podium until the last polygon, but paid duty with that target missed in the last standing series and had to settle for tenth place (1 + 1 + 0 + 1) to 2: 57.5 from the summit. As for the rest of the Italian troop, the South Tyrolean Cristoph Pircher reached 20 °, while the Piedmontese Marco Barale finished in 38th place, having to deal with six errors in the shooting series.
Nothing to do for Italy even in the women’s competition. The Swede was the winner Sara Andersson who built his success with a great performance on skis, limiting the errors at the shooting range (three) in an individual affected by a thick snowfall. To complete the podium were the German Iva Moricarrived with zero on arrival at 9.8 and the other Teutonic Selina Grotian at 17.0 with 1 + 0 + 1 + 0. There were expectations in the Italian team, but unfortunately there was no accuracy in the shooting series. The best was Ilaria Scattolo, 12 but with two errors in the last two polygons at 3: 11.9. Further back the most accredited Sara Scattolohowever, arrived 15 but with six errors in the shot (1 + 2 + 1 + 2) at 3: 40.1, while Fabiana Carpella got the 27th place (1 + 2 + 2 + 1) at 5: 24.4.
Photo: Federico Angiolini
