Italy won the bronze medal in
the biathlon mixed relay event at the Sochi Winter Olympics on
Wednesday, taking the nation's medal tally up to seven.
The Italian team of Dorothea Wierer, Karin Oberhofer,
Dominik Windish and Lukas Hofer came behind gold medallists
Norway and the Czech Republic.
Earlier in the Games, short-track skater Arianna Fontana
won two individual medals, bronze in the 1,500-metres and silver
in the 500m, and helped Italy come third in the 3,000 relay
event.
Italian skier Christof Innerhofer won two more medals:
silver in the men's downhill and bronze in the super combined.
Armin Zoeggeler's bronze in the luge is the other medal
Italy has won in Sochi so far.
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