Justine Braisaz smells the scent of home and manages to impose herself with a pace on skis that only the Slovenian Lampic manages to beat, overtaking the German Preuss by a handful of tenths who takes the lead over her competitors for the yellow bib. For the first time in her career, Hannah Auchentaller enters the top ten in a race with four Italians in the top 27 classified.
Friday 20 December, 3.25pm
Justine Braisaz (0-1) savors the taste of returning to victory in front of the impressive scenery of the home crowd in the women’s Sprint that opens the French weekend of the Biathlon World Cup.
The transalpine is very fast on skis, second only to Lampic, and manages to precede the German Franziska Preuss by 1.4 seconds (0-0) who scores important points against the competitors for the yellow bib. Anastasija Lampic conquers the first career podium (0-2) who on skis takes 20 seconds from Braisaz, 28 from Elvira Oeberg, 36 from Julia Simon. Slovenia ends the race 13..7 seconds behind the winner and precedes the Ukrainian Yuliia Dzhima (0-0), fourth at 19.1.
Another confirmation comes from Selina Grotian (0-1), fifth at 20.1 seconds, preceding the third German in the top six positions, Vanessa Voigt (0-0), sixth at 22.8 seconds. Julia Simon (1-1) is seventh at 37.5 seconds and precedes the Polish Zuk (0-0) by 4 tenths. An excellent Hannah Auchentaller (0-0) enters the top ten positions in the World Cup for the first time with ninth place at 44.4 seconds. Swedish Magnusson is tenth (0-1) at 45.7 seconds in the succession of 18 biathletes with a gap of less than one minute.
Among them also Samuela Comola (0-0), seventeenth at 57.6 seconds, while Dorothea Wierer (0-2) still argues with the standing shot and is twentieth at 1.03.0. Also in the points is an excellent Martina Trabucchi (0-1), twenty-seventh at 1.18.9
