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Russian biathletes failed the second relay of the season. In Oberhof, Germany in the framework of the 4th World Cup Russians did not manage to compete for medals in the team race.

In the middle of December in the Austrian Hochfilzen in the 2nd World Cup Russians claimed a medal in the relay, but at the last stage Catherine Glazyrina allowed a lot of mistakes and brought his team only 8th place in the record.

Now the coaching staff put Glazyrin for the first phase and the Russian has brilliantly coped with their task. With only one miss it passed the baton to the first.

However, this success Russians ended. Galina Nechkasova in the second stage of the work done exactly at the shooting range, but on the track could not compete with the leaders, bringing passed the baton to a 40-second delay from Ukrainian biathletes.

Daria Virolainen after she rushed to the chase and after the “maturation” reduced the backlog for half a minute, but in the “rack” it most of their ammunition sent to hit the target, adding to his race just two penalties.

After this fight the Russians for prizes over and Yana Romanova in the last stage looked extras.

But the fight for the medals was acute. Representatives of the Czech Republic avoided failures and deservedly won the gold. Quite a bit of the French ceded them. They lost it a little less than 9 seconds, allowing 1 miss more.

Bronze also had to get all Ukraine. Irina Varvinets after the last firing was third, with 50 seconds advantage over Darya Domracheva, but the latter had created a real miracle.

Another 500 meters before the finish line ahead of Ukrainian Domracheva for 15 seconds, but eventually Belarusian easily surpassed rival. Moreover, Varvinets lost in finishing the alignment colleagues from Norway and Italy and settled for sixth place.

As for the Russian women’s team, it improved its results a month ago, taking 7th place.

On Thursday, January 8 in the men’s relay Russia will have a greater chance of success. A month earlier, our guys were gold.

Oberhof, Germany. Biathlon World Cup. The fourth stage. Women. 4×6 km relay race, eight fire lines

1. Czech Republic – 1: 16.56,0 (0 penalty laps + 7 extra rounds)

 2. France – 8.9 + (0 + 8)

 3. Belarus – + 1.06,8 (1 + 8)
7. Russia (Catherine Glazyrina, Galina Nechkasova, Daria Virolainen, Yana Romanova) – + 2.11,5 (2 + 8)