Biathlon IBU Junior & Youth World Championships 2018

[heywoodu 15,141]

10 minutes ago, Werloc said:

You know how biathlon always takes talented cross-country skiers and teaches them to shoot in the quest of forming the perfect biathlete?

I know that Serbia definitely has some great athletes in shooting, maybe an experiment is in order to see how good they'd be on skis?

On the bright side, 7 misses for Altair is actually really good 

[dareza 911]

41. place for Drndic with 1+3 +0+0. Very good. I hope that she will be in top 40 in sprint

Edited February 26, 2018 by dareza

[heywoodu 15,141]

Biathlon hurts, but when your hobby is to rupture your meniscus, I guess the pain of skiing doesn't frighten you at all.

 

 

She'll start in the relay tomorrow, I'm putting my money on Russia with a pain lover like this.

[heywoodu 15,141]

Definitely my new favourite youngster biathlete, just look at that name....Martin Bourgeois Republique 

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Unsurprisingly, France takes the gold in the junior women's relay, but what else would you expect when your team consists of the numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the Junior Cup?  

 

Silver for Norway, bronze for Russia. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Finland was well in top-10 contention in the junior men's relay, but Aapo Erkkilä for some reason stopped in the first lap  

He passed 0.8km, but at 2.1km he was a DNF.

[Werloc 3,164]

Seeing as I've been following the Biathlon scene for a good amount of years and especially focusing a lot on the junior results, I think that it's fair to say that Finland is growing up to be a powerhouse nation in a couple of years, just like Sweden has the foundations now to be able to challenge Norway, Germany, Russia etc.

[heywoodu 15,141]

Did the Russian boys use skis or motorbikes? 

 

[Belle 975]

Gold for Sweden in women's relay! Congrats girls! 

Edited February 28, 2018 by Belle

[Werloc 3,164]

1 hour ago, Belle said:

Gold for Sweden in women's relay! Congrats girls! 

I think Biathlon is going to become a very interesting and attractive sport to Sweden starting from now on. Seeing the amount of junior talent that you're producing, this might surpass the Zidek, Ekholm, Ferry, Bergman era.