Biathlon IBU Junior & Youth World Championships 2020

[Monzanator 4,776]

Jan Gunka has some impressive ski speed amomg his peers. Poland should be a major relay favorite 12 months from now.

 

Among the medallists there were 8 guys born in 2001 and one in 2002. The Polish team was 2x 2002 and 1x 2003.

[Werloc 3,191]

3 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

@Werloc  Dinda really struggled with the stand.  I am sorry.

 

The US is surprising me.  Also, something happened to the Swiss.  I am pretty sure the Greeks have been lapped, but there must have been an injury or broken equipment that caused them to pullout during the first leg. Keller and the Swiss are now listed as DNF by the 7.1 KM mark.

 

That was not a biathlete on the shooting range, he was not thinking at all.

 

He hit the first target, then rapid fired the next 4 missing all of them. You can stop, adjust your sights, adjust your position, anything. He just went rapid fire 'whatever' mode and then even missed everything with the spare rounds. I don't know if he himself knows what he was doing there, but yeah. 

[RobtheAggie 340]

47 minutes ago, Werloc said:

 

That was not a biathlete on the shooting range, he was not thinking at all.

 

 

 

Same thing for the 3rd US biathlete, not a good last shooting.  

 

The Youth female is closer than the Youth male was.  Norway once again in the lead.  Lots of teams so far have avoided the penalty loop.  The US is 0+4 after 5 shoots, but are 5:38 behind.  Just slow on the skis.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Italy made a real race of it at the end, but congrats to Bakken who held her nerve and only used one spare round.  

[RobtheAggie 340]

Pretty exciting Junior Men relay this morning.  @Werloc  12th!  That is great.  Italy got a DQed.  Great last leg by Reithmueller who led Germany to 2nd behind Russia.  

[Werloc 3,191]

Well, personally, me and my good friend were both expecting a top 10 from these guys, but Fomin wasn't looking too good today on the skis and Romanov needed to step up a bit more. 

[RobtheAggie 340]

Congrats to France on the Junior Women's side of things.  We had another DQ, this time it was Ukraine.  The race for 3-5 was much closer than 2-3. 

[SalamAkhi 338]

All the French are first year juniors (eg 2000), a great performance ! Third title in a row, and third with Camille Bened in the line-up, she could end up her junior career with 5 relay titles 

[RobtheAggie 340]

On 29/01/2020 at 09:55, RobtheAggie said:

We had another DQ, this time it was Ukraine.  

Catherine Beh in the prone had four penalties, but instead to go to the penalty loop, she used the fourth spare. This led to the disqualification of the entire Ukrainian team.

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

In the Youth Men another Russian with the gold as Kovalev takes the win.  The Czech's get the silver and Maxime Germain of the US  got the Bronze!  In fact if you look at the top 10, there were 2 Americans, a New Zealander, a Belorussian, two Norwegians, a Slovenian, French Czech and a Russian.  Great diversity and 18 within 1 min of the leader.  In fact the top 33 are all within 90 seconds of the top.  This could create a very interesting pursuit.