Biathlon 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread

[Swewi 509]

Update from Stina Nilssons attempt to go from the best Cross country sprinter to biathlete:

Most events has been cancelled so after her debut in october where she had 3 misses in sprint and 10 misses in individual, she started in two sprints on sunday and monday. The first race was caotic, slipper conditions, fall, skiied some extra meters in wrong direction etc. She had 4 misses.

 

Better on monday where she shot 1+0 and finished 3rd in a race with the best biathletes in Sweden without the world cup team. Elisabeth Högberg shot clean but still over 40 seconds ahead of Stina. So a great shooting result for her 4th race ever, impressed by that, but even though she must be much slower on the shooting than the rest, I am still not very impressed of her being so far away from Högberg. I really hope she is skiing carefully now in the beginning until she has learned to shoot with high heart rate because that ski speed is not what I expected.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Good article from the NYT with reaction to the reduced ban for Russia by from CAS.

[RobtheAggie 340]

A little more about the Swedish race.  It was in Ostetsund, and was won by a 17 year old!  

 

Some good info in the article.

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

US Team for IBU Cup

 

Chloe Levins (Rutland, Vt.)

Hallie Grossman (Craftsbury, Vt.)

Kelsey Dickinson (Winthrop, Wash.)

Lucy Hochschartner (Lake Placid, N.Y.)

Jackie Garso (Lake Clear, N.Y.)

Helen Wilson (Eagle River, Alaska) serving as alternate.

 

Vasek Cervenka (Grand Rapids, Minn.)

Raleigh Goessling (Duluth, Minn.)

Lars Hammernes Leopold (Truckee, Calif.)

Garrett Beckrich (Grand Rapids, Minn.)

Vincent Bonacci (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Luke Brown (Saint Paul, Minn.) will serve as alternate.

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

For those who still need a biathlon fix:

 

Slovenian National Biathlon Championship (Series of domestic races)

12 December -  Super Individual results - 

26 Dec - Sprint

27 Dec - Pursuit

3 Jan - Mass Start

 

Balkan Biathlon Cup/Serbian Open Biathlon Championship - These are in Sjenica, a city south of the country near the border with B&H, Montenegro and Kosovo.

This will run from 24 Dec - 27 Dec

 

Russian Biathlon Championship in Tchaikovsky 22-28 December

Women's 15 km  Dec 24, 09:30  Link is here

Junior 12.5 km race  Dec 24, 12:30

Relay 3x6 km Juniors  Dec 26, 09:30

Women's 7.5K Sprint  Dec 26, 12:00

Sprint 7.5 km Junior Dec 27, 09:30

Women's 7.5K Sprint  Dec 27, 12:00

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

 Stina Nilsson has been named to the Swedish team for the first IBU Cup in Arber.

[Werloc 3,191]

Lithuanian Championships are going to be held on January 2-3rd in Otepaa. I imagine Estonia, Latvia are probably going to be running too, but I don't think many Lithuanians are going to be able to travel, so I don't expect much, perhaps scraps from team A and everyone from team B?

[rybak 3,431]

[Grassmarket 4,305]

On 24/12/2020 at 03:51, RobtheAggie said:

 

 

Russian Biathlon Championship in Tchaikovsky 22-28 December

Women's 15 km  Dec 24, 09:30  Link is here

Junior 12.5 km race  Dec 24, 12:30

Relay 3x6 km Juniors  Dec 26, 09:30

Women's 7.5K Sprint  Dec 26, 12:00

Sprint 7.5 km Junior Dec 27, 09:30

Women's 7.5K Sprint  Dec 27, 12:00

 

The guys decided just to settle for an arm-wrestling & vodka drinking competition instead, then?

[RobtheAggie 340]

5 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

The guys decided just to settle for an arm-wrestling & vodka drinking competition instead, then?

I found the Men's Individual race - https://biathlonrus.com/news/translyatsiya-individualnaya-gonka-u-muzhchin-na-chr-v-izhevske/

 

Looks like Canada was there.