Mirco Doddi is like a large part of the Italian biathlete sports soldier and starts for CS Esercito , an association of the sports promotion group of the army . He competed in his first international races as part of the European Junior Cup, later the IBU Cup . The first international championships were the 2007 Junior World Championships in Martell . In singles, the Italians came at the World Championships on the 56th, was the 17th of the sprints, dropped back to 49th place in the pursuit race based on it and came alongside with the Italian squadron Lukas Hofer and Mario Demetz on 13th place. The next major event was the 2009 Junior World Championships in Canmore , where Doddi finished 43rd in the individual and came seventh in the relay race with Dominik Windisch , Lukas Hofer and Rudy Zini .