Biathlon IBU World Cup 2017 - 2018

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Quick comeback to today´s race marked by the First podium for Slovak biathlon since March 2014. Very well done Anastasiya Kuzmina, This girl definitely know how to prepare herself for the Olympic season. Great race, to finish with 1 loop 22 seconds behind Domracheva with perfect shooting is really encouraging. 6th fastest time today and high quality shooting in disastrous weather conditions. Really great performance.

Congrats Nastya. Very well done !

 

 

 

Pitty for the bad shooting of our Fialková sisters, they were both relatively decently fast today on their skis but had quite a lot of hard luck arriving to the shooting range with the conditions resulting in 3 misses for Paulína 2 in the first shooting and 4 for Ivona, at least both managed to secure the qualification for tomorrow´s pursuit from 50th and last 60th place.

 

Terézia Poliaková once again disaster. 7 faults and terrible skiing resulting in the last position   This is really looking worrying, hopefully she will find some magic and do much much better in the relays.

 

Spoiler

 

Anastasia Kuzminová v rýchlostných pretekoch
	streľba v ľahu:						streľba v stoji:					výsledok:
												2. +22.1 (1)
	5	4	3	2	1		5	4	3	2	1
	bežecký čas: 6. +19.9						strelecký čas: 10. 0:57					získané body: 54

 

Paulína Fialková v rýchlostných pretekoch
	streľba v ľahu:						streľba v stoji:					výsledok:
												50. +2:22.8 (3)
	5	4	3	2	1		5	4	3	2	1
	bežecký čas: 41. +1:09.9						strelecký čas: 24. 1:04					získané body: 0

 

Ivona Fialková v rýchlostných pretekoch
	streľba v ľahu:						streľba v stoji:					výsledok:
												60. +2:42.2 (4)
	1	2	3	4	5		1	2	3	4	5
	bežecký čas: 34. +58.9						strelecký čas: 54. 1:09					získané body: 0

 

Terézia Poliaková v rýchlostných pretekoch
	streľba v ľahu:						streľba v stoji:					výsledok:
												102. +6:03.7 (7)
	1	2	3	4	5		1	2	3	4	5
	bežecký čas: 88. +2:26.2						strelecký čas: 74. 1:16					získané body: 0

 

 

[hckošice 16,562]

Strolia after 2 shootings from 50th to 27th ! Impressive !

where is @Werloc ?

[Werloc 3,191]

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

Strolia after 2 shootings from 50th to 27th ! Impressive !

where is @Werloc ?

He didn't do a penalty loop, so +2 minutes incoming.

 

Edit: and now it seems that he didn't miss at all? I'm confused.

Edited December 9, 2017 by Werloc

[hckošice 16,562]

Just now, Werloc said:

He didn't do a penalty loop, so +2 minutes incoming.

 

[hckošice 16,562]

Matej "4 loops" Kazár is back

[Werloc 3,191]

It seems that everything is alright with Vytautas Strolia and his shooting at the moment is 0+0+1+????? This is an amazing chance, but I'm almost certain that the nerves will kick in in the final stand, he's never won points before.

[Werloc 3,191]

OMG Will this be our first points??? From our former cross-country skier, in a PURSUIT race, where we never win anything

[hckošice 16,562]

6 minutes ago, Werloc said:

OMG Will this be our first points??? From our former cross-country skier, in a PURSUIT race, where we never win anything

 

Done ! Congrats

[Werloc 3,191]

Okay, so this is pretty amazing for our weak country.

 

Vytautas Strolia, a former Lithuanian cross-country skier switched to biathlon a couple of years ago with very mixed results and pretty bad shooting. He has participated in two pursuits before today and his previous best placement was 50th place in the sprint yesterday. 0+0+1+1 he showed maturity and his improvement over the years and in pursuits Lithuanians always go backwards, so this is a very nice thing indeed.

 

It is also the first time since 2015 Antholz (Kočergina) and 2015 Kontiolahti (Leščinskaitė) that a Lithuanian biathlete that is not Tomas Kaukėnas manages to get into top 40.

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