Some good placements and few satisfactions for the Italian NT in Pokljuka (SLO), where the second stage of this year's biathlon IBU World Cup took place from December 5th to December 11th.
The ten Italian athletes missed the podium in all the ten events of the competitio, achieving the best placements in the Men 12.5 km Pursuit race, where Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch respectively jumped up 14 and 30 positions from their spot at the end of the Sprint finishing 28th and 29th, and in the Men 4x7, 5 km Relay, where they both joined forces with Thomas Bormalini and Giuseppe Montello placing 7th.
Dorothea Wierer were not able to comeback again as she did in Östersund, as she climbed 2 positions after finishing 21st in the Sprint race, reaching the 19th position in the Pursuit. In the same event, a good performance was signed by Lisa Vittozzi, who came back from the 35th to the 22nd place.