The first mountain at the starting gate was the Corporal Enrico Nizzi in the cross-country skating technique sprint race. The Trentino of Val di Fassa, at his Olympic debut, failed to enter the quarter-finals, closing at the 44 ranked one race, however, conducted very well. The victory went to the Norwegian Ola Vigen Hattestad in front of the Swedish couple formed by Teodor Petterson and Emil Joensson.
In the afternoon, instead, the chase race for women of the biathlon took off, which saw the 10 ° Caporale Maggiore Karin Oberhofer fight once more among the best ten world athletes on the distance of 1 km with departures marked by the detachments of the previous day. Starting from the fourth position of the sprint race, the South Tyrolean athlete conducted a wonderful race, marked by a single mistake on four firing ranges, which allowed her to cross the finish line in 8 position and still close to the best .The victory went to the Belarusian Darya Domracheva over the Norwegian Tora Berger and the Slovenian Teja Gregorin.
In the evening, on the Olympic gut of the Sanki Sliding Center, the 1 ° Caporale Maggiore Sandra Gasparini concluded the last two heats, of the four total, for the awarding of the medals of the single female sled on an artificial track. of Vipiteno (BZ), who has always seen her in the first fifteen positions and then finish with the final placement in 14 position, and better than the Italian ones.
Sandra Gasparini will thus take the lead tomorrow after the team relay that in the past has given satisfaction to the Azzurri of the discipline.
Always the Olympic gut will see, engaged in, the Chief Corporal Patrick Gruber tomorrow, paired with Christian Oberstolz in the men's double sled.
Source: Army Sports Center - Winter Sports Section
