Biathlon World Championships 2016 - Men's Individual 20km race
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- BMW IBU Biathlon World Championships 2016 - Men's Individual 20km race
10.03.2016, Oslo
Fourcade Comeback for Gold Number Four
One Penalty; Still the Winner
Martin Fourcade of France came back from a penalty in the first standing stage, with an impressive skiing performance to win his fourth Gold medal in the men's 20K individual at the IBU World Championships today. His time of 49:13.9 put him 5.1 seconds ahead of the Silver medalist Dominik Landertinger of Austria who shot clean. His teammate Simon Eder won the Bronze medal, also shooting clean, 14.4 seconds back.
Local favorite Johannes Thingnes Boe finished fourth, with one penalty, 57.2 seconds back. Fifth went to Michal Krcmar of Czech Republic, who also shot clean, 1:16.4 back. Jakov Fak of Slovenia, with one penalty finished sixth, 1:40.4 back.
Fog, Then Gone
Heavy early morning fog finally dissipated about 2 hours before the competition started, leaving partly cloudy skies of the longest and toughest competition in biathlon.
Windless; Good Shooting
The men took advantage of the great windless conditions right from the start with a lot of clean shooting. Clean shooting with an extremely fast first loop gave Fourcade a wide lead of 12.5 seconds ahead of Landertinger and Johannes and another 7 seconds on Eder. Johannes took charge in the first standing, nine seconds ahead of Landertinger. Fourcade's easy route to the podium was temporarily delayed with a one minute penalty. Yet his fast skiing saw him only 30 seconds away from the leading Norwegian.
Three Stages
Once they hit the second prone, the crowd was in a bit of a frenzy with each shot from the leaders. Landertinger cleaned, taking the lead, with his teammate Eder matching just over 3 seconds behind. Then Fourcade moved back into contention, from eighth to fourth with a clean stage. Johannes was up next and thrilled the fans with clean stage number three. Now the young Norwegian was fully in charge.
Comeback and Victory
However, there was that all important last standing stage to tackle. Landertinger cleaned as did Eder, taking a six second lead over his teammate. Then the drama effectively ended as Fourcade, cool and calm cleaned. He left just .3 seconds back. Johannes had a chance to spoil this party, but with a single penalty left 49 seconds back in fourth. Fourcade flew around the last loop, gaining bits and pieces of time with each meter, until he crossed in the top spot 5.1 seconds up on the field. That set the podium, with Fourcade, Landertinger, Eder and then Johannes fourth once again.
Love for 20K
Fourcade called the individual the competition that "I love so much...I have won 9 of the last 11 of them. What a day! This is an amazing feeling; the same as last year. The difference is that I only won the individual last year!"
Eyes Closed
He continued, "I knew after the last standing, that I was in a position to win. The coaches told me that Landi was only three seconds ahead; he lied, but I knew that Landi is strong and this would be a hard last kilometer. I had my eyes closed going up the last hill; there was so much pain. I gave everything I had, probably more!"
On the chance of four individual medals, he added, "I told my coach this morning that I wanted to win to be in that position. Now I am."
Two Medals for Austria
Eder commented on the two Austrian medals, "Two medals; this might be the best day ever for Austria." He always shoots fast, but toned it down today. "I had a good mix between fast and safe shooting today...Winning an individual medal at the World Championships has been a big goal for me. I have been close before but today I have it. I think tonight I will truly realize what happened."
A great day for AUSTRIA :) All three are well deserved medal winners!
Ja jsem Fandila Simonovi Ederovi,Ktery Skoncil Na Bronzove Pricce.
@1:20:21 Moravec's shot would have counted had the mechanical target did it's job...
I don't know how we say in english but in french we call that a "cordon". Than mean he shot just at limit of the target. Sometimes the target fall, sometimes not, it's a lot of luck. Landertinger had some luck at his first shoot, he did two "cordon". If you watch at 1:00:11, J.Boe had bad luck doing one too what cost him the victory.
+Timothé Michel
Oui je sais bien, c'est ce que je trouve un peu dommage justement... cette part d'aléa qui n'est pas liée à l'athlète lui-même mais aux conditions de fonctionnement du matériel... balot! Mais dans le cas du dernier tir de Moravec, c'est pas un cordon: il a bel et bien tiré entièrement DANS la cible, mais celle-ci, au fonctionnement mécanique, n'a pas enclenché... Une cible dotée d'une autre technologie - disons, sensible aux impacts pleins et entiers (disons... tant de newtons par cm²...) - aurait accordé le tir, par exemple... Les résultats de la course auraient été très différents.
Concernant la part d'Aléa, il y en a toujours dans pas mal de sports, en Biathlon je la trouve encore assez limitée. Après pour la cible de Moravec moi je la trouve pas différente de celle de J.Boe mais bon après je suis pas expert non plus. Après je pense que tu dois être au courant mais lors du tir couché, c'est la petite cible qu'ils faut atteindre contrairement au tir debout où il s'agit de la grande.
Timothé Michel
Oui merci, je suis au courant. Son tir est en plein dedans...
Quand je reregarde son tir je la vois bien à côté pourtant. xD
M'enfin chacun est juge.