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Mäkäräinen to participate in Frassinoro Biathlon Fest

Published : 25 Jun 2017, 23:56

Updated : 25 Jun 2017, 23:59

  DF Report
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The three-day Frassinoro Summer Biathlon Festival will begin in Forni Avoltri, Italy on July 14.

A total of 28 athletes from 6 different nations including Finnish world biathlon star Kaisa Mäkäräinen will participate in the festival, said a press release.

Famous Italian athletes Dorothea Wierer, Dominik Windisch, Lukas Hofer, Lisa Vittozzi, Alexia Runggaldier, Federica Sanfilippo and some others foreign athletes will also participate.

Kaisa Mäkäräinen will take place to the unique Italian Biathlon Kermesse. The two times overall World Cup winner will compete in a team single mixed relay against other two important international biathletes-Selina Gasparin from Switzerland and the Slovene Teja Gregorin.

The entry list is completed with another Slovene athlete Klemen Bauer and by two Skiroll biathlon specialist: the World Champion Martins Otcenas from Slovakia and Kristina Ilchenko from Belarus.