Biathlon IBU Junior & Youth World Championships 2019

[Monzanator 4,499]

Kamila Zuk 7th in the junior individual with 4 misses. She won this event last season and allthough her skiing time was 60 secs. faster than anyone else, the shooting was poor. Still, this is not the way to go given how her chief rival from last season Davidova has moved on in the World Cup.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Top 5 leaving the last shoot

Norway

Germany

France

Poland

Slovenia

 

Norway has almost a 20 sec lead over Germnay.  France is about 1 min behind Germany.

 

Edited January 29, 2019 by RobtheAggie

[Olympian1010 7,972]

31 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Top 5 leaving the last shoot

Norway

Germany

France

Poland

Slovenia

 

Norway has almost a 20 sec lead over Germnay.  France is about 1 min behind Germany.

 

Pretty much the countries I expect to factor into the YOG next year (save Poland and Slovenia)

[RobtheAggie 340]

Norway 0+3

Germany 0+3

France 0+6

[heywoodu 15,135]

Wow Sweden was poor, 16th.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Not sure what happened with Mongolia.  They have 10+3 before they were presumably lapped.  Their first shooter shot 5+0 and 1+0, how does that work?

[OlympicsFan 858]

The positive trend continues for Germany, although i am not sure how much sense relays make at this level.

[Werloc 3,164]

4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Kamila Zuk 7th in the junior individual with 4 misses. She won this event last season and allthough her skiing time was 60 secs. faster than anyone else, the shooting was poor. Still, this is not the way to go given how her chief rival from last season Davidova has moved on in the World Cup.

This comment feels so familiar... Even if we have athletes that are talented in youth & junior level, we are always left behind in the senior level

[RobtheAggie 340]

If youth/junior success was a clear marker of World Cup success, Sean Dougherty should already be challenging for the overall crystal globe.  I have no idea of the statistic, but it would be interesting to see what % of Youth/Junior WC medalists ever make it to the podium at the World Cup Events, let alone the World Championships.

[Werloc 3,164]

12 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

If youth/junior success was a clear marker of World Cup success, Sean Dougherty should already be challenging for the overall crystal globe.  I have no idea of the statistic, but it would be interesting to see what % of Youth/Junior WC medalists ever make it to the podium at the World Cup Events, let alone the World Championships.

Well, you cannot expect immediate success from junior level. Especially if you're Norwegian, French, Russian, German etc. when it takes you years & years to even get on board on the world cup team. There's also the phenomenon where in some years, the biathletes are not as strong, so it's easier to win. I have been looking back at a lot of statistics, following how many Youth & Junior biathletes actually end up achieving success and what is interesting, is that it's usually the hard-working athletes that just don't quit that end up making it further with a lot of those prior winners simply ending their sports careers for different opportunities in life or other reasons.

 

In the case of Doherty, barely any biathletes from his age group have started in the world cup. Emillien Jacquelin comes to mind. Felix Leitner from Austria is slowly moving up the ranks. Pettersen going through the Norwegian ranks, Ponsiluoma sneaking a surprise podium for Sweden in the world cup. After that, there are some that are starting in the world cup from small teams and a few that are stuck at ibu cup level. Looking at the stats of this generation, Doherty still needs a couple of years to produce his best results.

Edited January 29, 2019 by Werloc