Biathlon IBU Cup 2020 - 2021

[RobtheAggie 340]

Russian women win the relay going 2+9.  Only 7 teams finished the race, the US were in 7th.  13 started the race.  The US finished 5+15, but left the shoot #2 in 2nd place with Maddie Phaneuf going 0-0 and handed over in 4th place.  Nice job by her!

 

Men's relay in about 90 min.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Germany, Russia and Norway in the men's relay.  Russia only used 6 spares.  13 of the 17 teams made it to the finish.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Nice job today by Egorova , Johansen  and Erdal  in the women's Sprint.  Over 1/3 of the women had either zero or only one misses.  Oberthaler was DQ.  Not sure why.

 

As an aside, UK had Amanda Lightfoot race, so whatever had kept her out of the single-mixed relay at the World Championships is now gone.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Women's pursuit results:

Weidel  takes the win by shooting 19 of 20 and moving up from 7th place.  Nilsson finished in 21st shot 16 of 20, but had a good day on the skis.  She was the fastest overall on the skis, and closed 20 sec in the final lap.  Lap 1 - 2nd fastest, Lap 2 - 48th fastest, Lap 3 - 4th fastest, Lap 4 - 5th fastest, Lap 5 - 1st Fastest.

[heywoodu 15,136]

Anna!  

 

@brunamoura

[Illya 511]

Second place for Anna ??????

[RobtheAggie 340]

Last race is moved from Italy to Obertillach next week.

[RobtheAggie 340]

125 in the men's short individual.  

109 in the women's short individual

 

Looks like a mix of IBU and Juniors

[RobtheAggie 340]

Finland with a surprise 3rd in the men's short individual.  Rivail of France and Cappellari finish 1st and 2nd with Laitinen and Strelow of Germany tying for 3rd.  Cappellari was the only one to shoot clear.

 

Voigi of Germany won the Gold with a clean shoot for Germany.  She was the only one to do so.  Goreeva (2nd) and Chauveau (3rd) both missed 3 shots.

 

In the men's sprint from this morning, Nawrath took the win, A. Andersen 2nd and Rivail 3rd.  Bjoentegaard finished 4th.  I do not see how he gets back onto the World Cup team. I would not be surprised if he retired this summer.  There were 4 other Norwegians in the top 12, all younger than him.  

 

15 shot clean, with Vsivtsev of Estonia being one of them.  Even with a clean shoot, he finished in 93rd place 4:01 behind.  A little more random analysis, no Norwegian shot clean in the sprint, 3 Germans did, 3 Italians, 2 Russians, 1 Slovak, 1 Slovene, 1 Belgian, and 1 from Moldova.

[heywoodu 15,136]

Noteworthy list, I wonder what's with all those DNS's....positives?