Windisch & Co. slip off the podium

Just two hours after that outstanding success of the women's relay It seemed as if the “Azzurri” wanted to emulate Dorothea Wierer & Co. They were on course for the podium until the last shooting, but then an old realization came into play: Italy was missing a fourth world-class man.

Hofer and Windisch were in the lead The start was extremely promising. Thomas Bormolini was surprisingly hardened at the shooting range and was the only member of the Italian team to make all his attempts without making any mistakes. He handed over to Lukas Hofer in second place. The in-form Montaler, who had achieved his best result of the season in fifth place in the pursuit just the day before, had to reload three times at the shooting range, but made up for these mistakes with an outstanding running performance and sent Dominik Windisch into the trail in the lead. The two-time Olympic medalist from Rasen cleverly managed the lead with only one missed shot, thereby laying the foundation for a possible top ranking.

However, Thierry Chenal was unable to take advantage of this, on the contrary: the young Aosta native exhausted himself in the duel with the Swede Sebastian Samuelsson, who was in the lead, and collapsed completely after the prone stage. In the standing test he was pushed out of the top three by Benedikt Doll, and later he even fell back to sixth place.

At the front, Samuelsson Vetle kept Sjåstad Christiansen at bay and relegated Norway to second place. Third place went to Germany's biathletes, who made a strong comeback. Result of the men's relay in Hochfilzen (Tirol/AUT): Pos Country Time Penalty laps/spare rounds 1. Sweden 1:16.10,6 hours 0/5 2. Norway +3,6 0/7 3. Germany +28,8 1/6 4. Austria +41,7 0/7 5. Russia +52,7 0/10 6. Italy +1.13,3 0/7 7. Czechia +1.22,6 0/7 8. Switzerland +1.33,1 1/9

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Windisch & Co. slip off the podium

For a long time it looked as if Italy's biathletes could reach the podium in the first men's relay race of the season, but in the end they had to settle for sixth place.

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