Shipulin ahead of Fourcade. Be – Shipulin – SPORT – EXPRESS

WORLD CUP

Russia’s Anton Shipulin won second place in the sprint race at the World Cup in the American Presque Isle. He won the Norwegian Johannes Be.

BU did not begin to finish backwards

sprint in Presque Isle promised to be even more short-lived than anywhere else again: Followers amicably decided to go the distance in the first starting group, almost one after the other. World Cup leader Martin Fourcade went the distance to third, immediately after him – the winner of the mass start at the previous World Cup in Canmore Italian Dominik Windisch. Russians Anton Shipulin, Maxim Tsvetkov also took to the track of the first 20. Suffice frosty (around -8 degrees) and stable weather, combined with tough natural snow did not cause the top athletes no desire to freeze while waiting for their turn to start.

, who is this year in stunning form Fourcade even miss the “rack” could expect to win. But Shipulin was the second time in a row this season was a sprint clean – great news for the Russian fans. At the exit from the second firing line, Anton won the Frenchman 8 seconds – a very precarious advantage. Already on the final climb Shipulina Fourcade and shared a few moments, but eventually the Russian managed to realize the advantage of a later starting number. Shipulin scratched Fourcade in the current first place with a margin of one second. However, very soon it became clear that the victory of the question – on the road to the finish line was approaching fast and accurate Johannes Be

The youngest of the Be brothers, who arrived in the US on the eve of the race. He seemed to have not heard what fatigue and problems with acclimatization. Half a minute of superiority – the gulf for sprint races where seconds count. Johannes could not afford to finish even backwards, as it recently did Czech Gabriela Soukalová. However, the Norwegian this time refrained from shocking – apparently decided not to confuse prim audience of the American heartland

Shipulin also eventually became a second -. As a week ago in Canmore, though then he lost Fourcade. After the race, Anton said that the feeling on the track is poor, but maybe it’s good – peak shape should come for the World Cup

<. span> WOLVES was injured

The Russians Alexander Povarnitsyn and Alexei Kornev, for example Be, arrived in Presque Isle from Europe just before the race. However, their results were far less impressive: c Povarnitsyn two penalties, showed the 28th time, and the roots and do not hit the pursuit race, with three shooting errors on it 79 minutes. Thus, if the coaches do not decide as an experiment to try it in the relay, performance in Presque Isle for the root end. Value fly to another continent for a failure of the race – the question is not so much to the athlete as to the coaching staff

In fact, with the exception of Shipulin, record yourself in the sprint race asset in. our team no one can. Alexey Volkov, despite just one penalty, finished only 66th, and the persecution and did not hit. In addition, Alexei fell on one of the slopes and was injured. How serious – remains to be seen, but perhaps on this American tour Volkova also completed.

another unsuccessful race held and Dmitry Malyshko – 45th position with three errors on the shooting . In the final sprint of the World Cup before the start of the World Cup in Oslo Olympic champion was not able to re-prove their worth. Chance to do so he is less and less …

Presque Isle (United States). World Cup. Men. Sprint, 10 km. 1. J. Be (Norway) – 24.38,8 (0 pcs circles.). 2. Shipulin – lag 27.9 (0). 3. M. Fourcade (France) – 28.9 (1). 4. Lesser (Germany) – 45.9 (0). 5. Vistner (Switzerland) – 50.3 (1). 6. B. Weger (Switzerland) – 52.5 (1) … 28. Povarnitsyn – 1.51,1 (2) … 43. FLOWERS – 2.16,1 (1) … 45. Dollar Baby – 2.20 4 (3) … 65. WOLVES – 3.02,7 (1) … 79. KORNEV -. 3.50,6 (3)