Biathlon IBU Summer World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 16,142]

Biathlon IBU Summer World Championships 2019

 

Minsk-Raubichi (BLR) - 23 August 2019 - 25 August 2019

 

 

Official Website

[RobtheAggie 340]

About two weeks away from the start.  Short article here  with some basic stats, but it does say that there will be athletes from 27 countries including Greece, Turkey and Mongolia.  Should be good.

 

Schedule:

 

23 AUG 2019 03:40 Junior Men Super Sprint Qualification  

23 AUG 2019 04:15 Junior Women Super Sprint Qualification  

23 AUG 2019 06:00 Men Super Sprint Qualification  

23 AUG 2019 06:35 Women Super Sprint Qualification  

23 AUG 2019 08:10 Junior Men Super Sprint Final  

23 AUG 2019 08:40 Junior Women Super Sprint Final  

23 AUG 2019 10:10 Men Super Sprint Final  

23 AUG 2019 10:40 Women Super Sprint Final 

 

24 AUG 2019 03:45 Junior Men 7.5 km Sprint Competition  

24 AUG 2019 06:15 Junior Women 6 km Sprint Competition  

24 AUG 2019 09:00 Men 7.5 km Sprint Competition  

24 AUG 2019 11:00 Women 6 km Sprint Competition  

 

25 AUG 2019 04:15 Junior Men 10 km Pursuit Competition  

25 AUG 2019 06:15 Junior Women 7.5 km Pursuit Competition  

25 AUG 2019 08:45 Men 10 km Pursuit Competition  

25 AUG 2019 10:30 Women 7.5 km Pursuit Competition 

[heywoodu 16,142]

As always with summer worlds, the big question is who will appear  

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

As always with summer worlds, the big question is who will appear  

 

Super sprints appeared...

[heywoodu 16,142]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Super sprints appeared...

Summer biathlon is excellent for things like that in my opinion. Plus I've heard super sprint is a lot of fun to do..  

[Grassmarket 4,103]

Usually the 4 main races at the weekend get streamed live.  Some nations take it more seriously than others. Norwegians, French & Germans don’t often bother. Poles & Ukrainians mostly do. Home nation generally send their best.

[heywoodu 16,142]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Usually the 4 main races at the weekend get streamed live.  Some nations take it more seriously than others. Norwegians, French & Germans don’t often bother. Poles & Ukrainians mostly do. Home nation generally send their best.

Yeah Eastern Europe is generally pretty strong here  Plus Kaisa when it was in Estonia (which is when Brazil was there too, working together with British Amanda Lightfoot if I'm not mistaken)

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

These are confirmed to be there - 

Timofey Lapshin

Anna Frolina

Andrejs Rastorgujevs

Ekaterina Glazyrina

Larisa Kuklina

Krasimir Anev

Valj and Vita Semerenko

Sergey Semenov
 

[Grassmarket 4,103]

1 hour ago, RobtheAggie said:

These are confirmed to be there - 

Timofey Lapshin

Anna Frolina

Andrejs Rastorgujevs

Ekaterina Glazyrina

Larisa Kuklina

Krasimir Anev

Valj and Vita Semerenko

Sergey Semenov
 

 

Oh, yeah, also out-of-favour Russians trying to get back into the national squad. 

[Grassmarket 4,103]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah Eastern Europe is generally pretty strong here  Plus Kaisa when it was in Estonia (which is when Brazil was there too, working together with British Amanda Lightfoot if I'm not mistaken)

 

 

 

Actually I remember it being a very important week for Kaisa because she got her first wins there after doing both biathlon & cc for a while.  Then I think at the first WC that year she got a snow win as well, so it was a big confidence booster.