Russian biathletes won the men’s relay – Russian newspaper

The final race of the sixth stage of the World Cup in Anterselva Italy ended in victory for the Russian team in the men’s relay. Second place went to Germans, the third – the Norwegians.

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All the previous races this stage Russian biathletes have completed at least on the podium, but three times, and all won. So from the men’s relay team fans rightly expect nothing less than getting the number of winners.

“miners” the Russian team Maxim Tsvetkov took one extra cartridge on each shooting and finished the stage eighth, with a lag of about 23 seconds Lesser of the German in the lead. It could have been better if not for the loss of the stick. However, the coaches quickly replaced Maxim broken “accessory”, and nothing critical has happened.

After the fourth shooting in the race leaders came Italian Hofer him fled Overshot once Eugene Garanichev, and the third turned out to be a Norwegian Birkeland, who soon gave way to this place Swiss Weger. Well, bad shooting Benedict Doll threw the Germans already in eighth place. Garanichev meanwhile, until the end of the Italian stage almost “eaten” by eliminating nearly 9-second gap.

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Then the Russian team for the distance traveled Dmitry Malyshko, which caused nervous. He missed three times at the first turn, but still was able to do without the penalty loop and back to the distance, behind only serious Be Johannes from Norway. Malyshko corrected at the next shooting, which worked cleanly and quickly. As, however, and Be, Jr., who until the end of the stage to increase their advantage to 30 seconds. Given that the Norwegians finisher at the last moment Erlend Bontegorda appointed, replacing Tarja Be pribolevshy such handicap Norwegians were very helpful.

Already in the “prone” Bontegord missed twice and lost his advantage. Not without mistakes and our SHIPULIN Anton. He took one extra cartridge and went to third on a distance, behind the Norwegian in addition also German Schempp. As a result, all of the trio came to the last line almost at the same time.

The Norwegian missed two more times and the number of applicants for a victory fell. SHipulin and Schempp had shot perfectly and simultaneously ran to ski, to play winning. Anton looked at this duel favorite, and his reputation as a finisher Russians confirmed. SHipulin already pulled away from the stadium Schempp and the Russian team brought another “gold.” The Germans, however, may complain about the Japanese circle that prevented Schempp to finish dismantling. But this is a question for the judges. Closed the top three Norwegians.

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