Photo : RIA Novosti
other March 19, 2016, Saturday. 17:30
Anton Shipulin ranked only 20 th in the pursuit at the World Cup home. Now he gives Norwegians Boe in the overall standings
Simple Affair
«hold or not hold” -. Asked each other Russian fans at the stadium in Khanty-Mansiysk, before the start of the men’s pursuit race. The penultimate race of the World Cup did not promise the owners an opportunity to win a medal, even in the absence starring Martin Fourcade. Too bad the Russian team held a sprint, but with the seats in the third and fifth scores on the podium to get difficult.
So the intrigue somehow by itself has been reduced to a confrontation Anton Shipulin and Johannes Boe in the overall World Cup standings. Even yesterday, the Russians looked the clear favorite in the fight for second place, but after the failure in the sprint the gap between him and norvezhtsemv reduced by two-thirds, plus prelaunch Boe had an advantage of almost 40 seats. Now Shipulin had to win back
When he is ready
Pursuit -. A favorite theme of Anton when he is ready. I had to wait and see if he’s ready now. Garanichev, for example, two starting kilometer played eight positions, but even he came to the line, when the leading Landertinger and pursuing his Schempp and Lesser gone. Evgeny clearly worked “maturation” and was on the 20th place. Boe with clean shooting kept the seventh position, Shipulin also had a problem at the first shooting. And it was already the 27th place.
At the head of the race rolled mentioned trio, consisting of one Austrian and two Germans. Garanichev in distance walked faster leaders Shipulin – faster Garanicheva. The Russians, of course, had nothing to lose, we had to just work and work. Blind, Volkov, Tsvetkov, baby, Pascenco, Elisha – all of them made by slip on the first “lezhke»
Point on the weight of silver
With each kilometer. two Russians approached the leaders Garanichev more and played three positions. At the turn of the leading trio broke up: exactly had shot only Lesser. Water to the mill Boe flowed plentifully: Norwegian errors are made, and the fifth and the second place it is separated by only 10 seconds
Garanichev second time closed five targets and moved to 15th place, but missed Shipulin.. Maybe give the Russian fans will, they would have swapped Eugene and Anton: the first is still not applied for a medal for every second Scoring was on the weight of silver.
The unmistakable Boe
Remote course Garanicheva Eugene continued to help regain a place at the venue. At the cut-off of 7.1 km, it was already the 13th and conceded leader just over a minute. Shipulin also tightened, but not as fast as we would like. Boe on the “rack” has got everything and led the race. In such hands, there was no doubt that it will come out of Norway in second place in the overall standings. And it does not matter it was like the rest of the race will be held Shipulin. The role played by only the number of errors that make Boe at the final turn. To start
Garanichev missed twice, then made a mistake and Shipulin. Now they rolled close – on the 18th and 20th places. Boe led the race by setting your own pace, Schempp followed immediately behind the Norwegian, and the leaders of the duo had 10 seconds advantage over the Lesser and Landertinger. Then in 25 seconds riding the American Burke, which meant that even with one penalty Boe is unlikely to fall below fifth place.
14 points
and Norway made a mistake, but the thing is that all the leaders were mistaken. So Boe was the first, three seconds left the penalty loop Schempp. Lesser went to third, but could hardly believe that his ability to play for 10 seconds. So that no one could stop the Norwegian become the first or the second.
A missed Shipulin again and fell back to 22 th position. Garanichev gathered and shot clean. On getting into the top-10 Eugene he never claimed he could fight a maximum of 12th place. Schempp, meanwhile, pulled at the last climb, and took away the victory Boe, Shipulin and prepodnёs six Cup points. Lesser was the third, Garanichev took 14th place.
Anton Shipulin finished in 20th place, and added to its credit 21 points. Now they have the Russians 806. Johannes Boe – 820. The fate of the “total silver” will be decided in tomorrow’s mass start.
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