Biathlon 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[RobtheAggie 340]

Junior Boys Sprint is over.

Congrats to Grotian of   with the win.  He missed 1 shot on his way to victory.  Local youth  Aolaid shot clean, but was 7 sec outside 6th place.  Yesterday winner Cisar missed two shots in the stand and ended up in 12th place.  De Santana  shot well again, only missed twice.  I wish I could say the same for the US skiers.

 

Jugvic of Bosnia missed 9 shots, and only 3 shot clean, Aolaid, Kocain  (15th) and Secu  (87th!)

 

Edited March 2, 2019 by RobtheAggie

[Wumo 3,001]

 Statement from IBU:

- CAS has decided to grant the application for provisional measures filed by Kazakh athlete Ms Galina Vishnevskaya on 22 February. The IBU is obliged to lift her provisional suspension with immediate effect. The athlete is therefore eligible to be registered at IBU events.

 

https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/ibu-statement-cas-order-galina-vishnevskaya

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

 

Junior Men Individual done

 

1 - Tim Grotian            Perfect shooting!

 

2.- Vebjoern Soerum   +23.4   One miss    Would have been very close.

 

3 - Alex Cisar             + 54.3  Perfect shooting

 

Josefsen of Greenland missed 18 shots!  One two shot perfect.

 

Junior Women Individual done

1 - Camille Bened              Perfect shooting

 

2 - Amanda Lundstroem    Perfect shooting  +5.5

 

3 - Franziska Pfneur          Missed one  +29.7

 

Remenova of Slovakia missed 11 shots.  Three shot perfect.

 

Best US female athlete was Chloe Levins in 19th with +3:16 and 2 misses.  Garrett Beckrich was 21 at 4:03 with 3 misses.  These two will be in the Single Mixed Relay tomorrow.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Single Mixed Relay looks to have been a good one.

1.    0 + 10 - One of 8 teams who did not have a penalty loop.  Best shooting was  who went 0 + 6 but without enough ski speed finished in 12th.  Top 10 teams were all within 1:15 of the Russians.

2.   Close to the lead, or leading the entire way, both Stalder and Baserga shot well.  Baserga did end up with 1 + 6, the penalty loop made the difference.  + 6.9

3.    0 + 7 + 22.  

 

Worst shooting performance was close between the Serbs 11+21 and the Bosnian team 15+23.  Despite shooting worse, the Bosnian team finished almost 4 min faster.

 

Next up Mixed Relay in a few hours.

[justony 454]

Wow, already a medal for Alex Cisar in junior level after succesful youth performances this winter.

And also nice 6th place with Vindišar at Single Mixed.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Just now, justony said:

Wow, already a medal for Alex Cisar in junior level after succesful youth performances this winter.

And also nice 6th place with Vindišar at Single Mixed.

All do not pan out, but Cisar is one to keep tabs on for sure.  I hope he keeps working hard, and keeps his arc of progression.

[RobtheAggie 340]

An odd piece of news from Denmark:

 

Greenland teen a big biathlon hope
Norway, Sweden and Finland are light years ahead of Denmark when it comes to the biathlon, but a 17-year-old from Greenland could help bridge that gap in the near future. Ukaleq Slettemark won the women’s 10 km individual title at the recent 2019 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Slovakia, taking Greenland’s first ever medal in an international competition. Slettemark spent some of her formative years in Norway.

 

It sounds like Denmark might be making a play for Slettemark.

[Wumo 3,001]

12 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

An odd piece of news from Denmark:

 

Greenland teen a big biathlon hope
Norway, Sweden and Finland are light years ahead of Denmark when it comes to the biathlon, but a 17-year-old from Greenland could help bridge that gap in the near future. Ukaleq Slettemark won the women’s 10 km individual title at the recent 2019 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Slovakia, taking Greenland’s first ever medal in an international competition. Slettemark spent some of her formative years in Norway.

 

It sounds like Denmark might be making a play for Slettemark.

If a person or an athlete can be related to/with Denmark, that person is basically Danish. Greenland is part of the Danish Kingdom, but Slettemark got her skiing-education in Norway, which is a big reason that she can actually become a decent biathlete in the future.  

Sidenote, up to the Oscars this year, the Danish medias had to mention every time that we sort of had a Danish actor nominated for Best Actor for his role in Green Book. Viggo Mortensen is born in USA. His father is Danish, but he only lived in Denmark for a short while. He has lived longer in Argentina, but I don't think Argentina claims he is Argentine. 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

2 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

An odd piece of news from Denmark:

 

Greenland teen a big biathlon hope
Norway, Sweden and Finland are light years ahead of Denmark when it comes to the biathlon, but a 17-year-old from Greenland could help bridge that gap in the near future. Ukaleq Slettemark won the women’s 10 km individual title at the recent 2019 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Slovakia, taking Greenland’s first ever medal in an international competition. Slettemark spent some of her formative years in Norway.

 

It sounds like Denmark might be making a play for Slettemark.

Well, she won't compete for Greenland at the Olympics, so..  

[Monzanator 4,501]

2 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

An odd piece of news from Denmark:

 

Greenland teen a big biathlon hope
Norway, Sweden and Finland are light years ahead of Denmark when it comes to the biathlon, but a 17-year-old from Greenland could help bridge that gap in the near future. Ukaleq Slettemark won the women’s 10 km individual title at the recent 2019 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Slovakia, taking Greenland’s first ever medal in an international competition. Slettemark spent some of her formative years in Norway.

 

It sounds like Denmark might be making a play for Slettemark.

 

Her father competed for Denmark at the Olympics already. Greenland is Denmark's dependent territory. Likewise people from Faroe Islands would compete for Denmark at the Olympics as well. Or people from Macau for China.