Biathlon IBU Cup 2020 - 2021

[dcro 10,210]

Well, decent result for Kožica.

[RobtheAggie 340]

The provisional start lists for the relays are out.

30 nations in the Single Mixed, and 28 in the Mixed.

[heywoodu 16,004]

After Wright's 5th place, there was a second place for the ever-friendly Anna Weidel in the women's race, what a day it was  

 

Curious to see the rest of Arber.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Quick question for those who have been to Arbor.  Does the finish end with a slight uphill?  It looked that way on the highlights.  

[Monzanator 4,768]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

After Wright's 5th place, there was a second place for the ever-friendly Anna Weidel in the women's race, what a day it was  

 

Curious to see the rest of Arber.

 

After Deigenetsch's 11th place in the Antholz individual it feels like Weidel will be stuck in IBU Cup for a long while now?

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

Quick question for those who have been to Arbor.  Does the finish end with a slight uphill?  It looked that way on the highlights.  

The last part of the Arber lap is a downhill (small) followed by a short flat part  

 

The start of the lap has a (rather seriously big and scary) climb  

[RobtheAggie 340]

Mihail Usov of Moldova in 3rd place at 8.4km!!!   I do not think that he will be able to stay ahead of Nawrath, but what a great result for him!

[RobtheAggie 340]

No surprise, but Norway won the Single Mixed Relay with no penalty loops and 10 spares.  They were to only team to do that.  Of the 29 teams that started, only 15 made it to the finish.  Northern Macedonia did not make it past the 2nd shoot.  France was up in 3rd, 20ish seconds behind until the 6th shoot when they lost 40 seconds, and ended up in 4th.  The biggest surprise to me was Ukraine.  The normally very reliable shooting team went 6+15, but they still managed to finish in 7th, only 2:13 behind.  In the most bizarre stat of the race, Russia had the fastest total course time, but only the 14th fastest range time.  Finland on the other had, was the 14th fastest on the course, or next to last of the teams that finished, but was the 5th fastest in the range.   

Mixed Relay in about 90 min.

[heywoodu 16,004]

On 22/01/2021 at 11:14, RobtheAggie said:

Mihail Usov of Moldova in 3rd place at 8.4km!!!   I do not think that he will be able to stay ahead of Nawrath, but what a great result for him!

I wonder how many Russians were dumped in Moldova lately. This guy, Pavel Magazeev last season (after a 10-year absence), Alina Stremous who appeared out of absolutely nowhere and is consistently posting top skiing times...

[RobtheAggie 340]

The US Announced their team for the last two IBU Cup races:

Women:

Maddie Phaneuf (Old Forge, N.Y.)

Hallie Grossman (Craftsbury, Vt.)

Kelsey Dickinson (Winthrop, Wash.)

Lucy Hochschartner (Lake Placid, N.Y.)

Mikayla Maier (Bozeman, Mont.)

 

Mens:

Raleigh Goessling (Duluth, Minn.)

Vasek Cervenka (Grand Rapids, Minn.)

Vincent Bonacci (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Luke Brown (Saint Paul, Minn.)

Carsen Campbell (Bozeman, Mont.)

 

Campbell and Maier are new to the IBU Cup.  While Luke Brown is the brother of Jake Brown.