Wierer & Co. miss the podium

It would have been the happy end to a great comeback: In the women's relay race in Pyeongchang, the Italian quartet, made up of Lisa Vittozzi, Federica Sanfilippo, Alexia Runggaldier and Dorothea Wierer, was ahead after a botched performance by the recovered Sanfilippo (five shooting errors). at the second change in seventh place, over a minute behind the top places. Then Runggaldier started to catch up, hit all ten targets and brought the “Azzurre” dangerously close to the podium again. Dorothea Wierer continued this route, remained flawless in the penultimate shooting and had the top three in sight. Even with two mistakes in the last stop, the Niederrasner woman was still on course for a podium finish, but was no longer able to keep up with her competitors' pace in the last lap and missed the podium by 3 seconds.

In the end, third place went to the Czech Republic, while Norway took silver. At this time the German squadron was already in a celebratory mood. Even without superstar Laura Dahlmeier (she wanted to take it easy) and despite a penalty lap, the black-red-gold quartet took victory with a lead of 22 seconds. Curious: Germany was always on the highest podium in five relay races this year.

IBU World Cup in Pyeongchang, women's relay race: 1. Germany (Horchler/Hammerschmidt/Hermann/Hildebrand)1:07.35,6 (7 spares / 1 penalty) 2. Norway (Nicolaisen/Fenne/Eckhoff/Olsbu) +22,8 seconds (11 / 1) 3. Czech Republic (Jislova/Puscarcikova/Koukalova/Koukalova)+22,9 (9 / 1) 4. Sweden +23,0 (7 / 0) 5. Italy (Vittozzi/Sanfilippo/Runggaldier/Wierer) +25,9 (11 / 0) 6. France +1.18,8 (12 / 2) 7. Ukraine +1.27,2 (9 / 0) 8. Canada 1.34,0 (7/0) 9. Kazakhstan +2.05,2 (9 / 1) 10. Belarus +2.07,1 (8 / 0)

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Wierer & Co. miss the podium

The second podium place this season was within reach for the Italian women's relay team. In the end, Dorothea Wierer & Co. had to settle for fifth place. Germany took the victory.

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