Italian Championship: Hofer and Wierer are the first winners

By Luis Mahlknecht Lukas Hofer was able to impress with absolutely safe shooting at the shooting range and celebrated a confident victory in the absence of the completely cold Dominik Windisch. The closest to him was Giuseppe Montello from Friuli, who had to go through the penalty loop twice, but in the end was only 23,9 seconds behind the new Italian champion Hofer. Thomas Bormolini took third place on the podium, just ahead of Maikol Demetz from Val Gardena, who showed a strong performance at the shooting range and on the track. In the women's race, Dorothea Wierer had to go through the penalty loop twice, but her running potential secured her the state championship title again ahead of Nicole Gontier and Lisa Vittozzi, who finished ahead of the South Tyrolean pack of Federica Sanfilippo, Carmen Runggaldier and Karin Oberhofer. Karin Oberhofer had a mishap when she shot at prone targets during the second shooting and promptly missed all five targets. Revenge is the order of the day in tomorrow's pursuit competition.

South Tyroleans dominate in the youth categories The new state champions among the juniors are Paolo Rodigari from Livigno and Ginevra Rocchia from Piedmont, while among the youth biathletes both titles went to South Tyrolean athletes: Irene Lardschneider clearly distanced Samuela Comola despite three penalties, Patrick Braunhofer even had to go through the penalty loop four times and left second place finisher Peter Tumler behind by nearly 52 seconds. Rebecca Passler from Antholz won even more clearly among the biathletes from the U17 category. For them, a single missed shot was half the battle for success ahead of Linda Zingerle and Anna Maria Oberegger, which meant that SV Antholzertal even achieved a triple success. Another Antholzer narrowly missed out on success: Josef Plaickner was only 17 seconds slower in the U2,9 boys' category than Samuele Puntel from Sappada, who won the title on the Marteller roller track. The pursuit competitions will follow tomorrow, Sunday, with the first starting gun ringing at 9.30:XNUMX a.m.

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Italian Championship: Hofer and Wierer are the first winners

The Italian Summer Biathlon Championships began in Martell this Saturday with the sprint competition. In the senior categories, Lukas Hofer and Dorothea Wierer were the favorites to win.

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