French biathlete Martin Fourcade won the gold in the sprint at the World Cup – TASS

Holmenkollen / Norway / 5 March. /Specialist. corr. Artem Kuznetsov TASS /. French biathlete Martin Fourcade won the gold in the sprint at the World Cup, which takes place in Holmenkollen, Norway. He overcame a distance of 10 km in 25 minutes 35.4 seconds, while preventing blunders at two firing lines

The second was Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, the third -. Ukrainian Sergey Semenov

The best. of the Russians was Eugene Garanichev, who finished in sixth place.

Fourcade became eightfold world champion, among the French on this indicator, he caught up with Rafael Poiret.

Later, the female sprint will be held on Saturday.

Choosing Shipulina

After the race, the leader of the Russian national biathlon Anton Shipulin admitted that in spite of the advice of coaches and service brigade command, insisted to run in the first group.

Shipulin got the first starting number, while most of the leaders of the season, with the exception of a Frenchman Martin Fourcade, chose to go to the start much later. During the race the Russian biathlete allowed two misses and lost chances of winning medals

“Yesterday watched the weather, -. Said Shipulin of the reasons for the selection of the first group -. Coaches and servismeny tells me that we should not be declared in the first group, but I insisted to run at the beginning, because he believed that it would be better. but, of course, did not expect that will get the first start number “.

biathlete said that on the starting room Fourcade he learned only in the evening, when I saw the start list. “Today the whole race hard, the results can be seen that neither the fire nor the course of today do not get,” – said he

High rate

Also after the race, reporters talked Eugene Garanichev.. He admitted that he took too high a tempo at the start of the sprint World Cup race in Norwegian Holmenkollen, which did not allow him to retain power in the last lap distance.

“The race was difficult, especially the last lap. The conditions were almost the same as in Tyumen (on successful for biathlon European Championships -.. Note TASS), but today it was not possible to me to show my maximum, – said Garanichev -. We had to start calmly and then add “

biathlete. He said that his decision to actively start the race was not connected with the desire to go at the same time to become the winner of the competition, Martin Fourcade. After the first firing Garanichev ahead of the Frenchman for a few seconds: “Such tactics were not simply decided to try to pass the first round faster than usual, but the forces at the finish line is not enough With Martin is quite real fight, when to shoot accurately and well-run fight for top rankings possible.. always. “

Garanichev lamented the fact that once again made him the inherent error, missing when shooting from a standing position. “Recently, I begin to” finish off “the target, which is not covered with the first shot,” – he explained

The athlete noted the work of the tournament organizing committee, who was able to prepare well the track, despite the fact that in the last days. abundant snowing. “So do not make a lot of difference in a group start, the conditions were the same for all”, – said biathlete

Garanichev convinced that despite the failure of the Russian team top of the World Cup, it has “everything will be fine. “. “We will show the result,” – he said

World Championship will last until 13 March

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