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Nove Mesto (dpa) - The German men's biathlon relay has won a world cup race for the first time in more than four years.
The quartet with Erik Lesser, Benedikt Doll, Arnd Peiffer and Philipp Nawrath prevailed in the Czech Nove Mesto with only five spare rounds ahead of Russia and Norway.
One and a half weeks after the World Cup relay debacle with seventh place in Pokljuka, the team looked like they had been changed and were 1: 21.7 minutes ahead of the Russians after 4x7.5 kilometers.
The last German success to date was in Antholz in January 2017.
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Above all, the 32-year-old Lesser was in the focus in front of empty grandstands on the 2013 World Cup tracks.
As a starting runner at the World Championships in Slovenia, he suffered a slump, so that his team was out of the race right at the beginning of the competition and had no chance of winning the medals at the end.
The Thuringian now shone in Nove Mesto and gave Germany an early lead.
The team with last runner Nawrath held this position surprisingly well, while world champion Norwegians made three penalties in difficult wind conditions in the last relay race of the winter.
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