Biathlon IBU World Championships 2019

[Monzanator 4,502]

Will Lindstroem retire after this season?

[bestmen 2,818]

maillet took the bronze

[Bohemia 1,411]

I just noticed that this is QFM's first medal in a world championship, his best result was 10th until now :o

[bestmen 2,818]

can someone post the podium????????

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Gold JTB

Silver Loginov

Bronze QFM

[Werloc 3,164]

Lithuania is having simply the best championships! I am so excited. Vytautas Strolia, another person that's not known for hitting all the targets, I think this might have even been the first time (second at best) when he goes clear in a race and finished with a PB of 26th place Tomas Kaukėnas after an abyssmal season actually made it in the pursuit with clean shooting as well and Karol topped it off with decent ski speed and 63rd place, but his priority is the individual race and we'll see if he shines there.

 

Anyway, 26th for Strolia and 27th for Kočergina is more than anyone could have asked from our team, especially since we qualified like to two pursuit races this year and our only points were from Karol in an individual race at the start of the season. I'm a happy camper.

Edited March 9, 2019 by Werloc

[heywoodu 15,141]

44 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Will Lindstroem retire after this season?

Thanks to this post I realize he was in the race  

 

I thought he would be focussing entirely on next season after his illness.

[Werloc 3,164]

46 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Will Lindstroem retire after this season?

I don't think he will retire. He was just very ill this season, though I'm highly surprised he got a start in the world championships. Kinda unfair to Ponsiluoma (unless of course he's sick himself)

[RobtheAggie 340]

17 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Doherty 10/10. @RobtheAggie will be happy about it

 

Yep, very happy.  22nd place when shooting 0+0.  See what I mean when I said top 15 would be amazing!  The fact that both Claire Egan and Joanna Reid were in the top 15 for the womens sprint was great.  

But it was not just Doherty who shot well, coming off his terrible performance in the Mixed Relay, Nordgren shot 0+0, but is 1:51 behind, in 34th place.  A third American male, Jake Brown also qualified for the pursuit at 0+3 2:41 in 58th place.  I predict he will be lapped.  

 

Great shooting for four (males and females) in the sprint, just not great ski speed.  But I am happy!

[hckošice 14,829]

Paja DNS in todays pursuit, she is too much disappointed by her performance (especially shooting) in the sprint, she decided altogether with the coaches that the best choice will be to DNS today and instead of competing to train and work on the shooting, before the remaining events, clearly focusing on the mass start.