Great shooting finisher Michal Krčmář pulled the biathletes to fifth place in the relay in Hochfilzen. The quartet Tomáš Mikyska, Jakub Štvrtecký, Ondřej Moravec and Krčmář improved their week-long position from Kontiolahti by two places. The Swedes won the World Cup race at the Austrian center.
After a successful debut in Finland, Junior Mikyska started the Czech relay again and did not disappoint. He passed with only a half-minute loss to the forehead, which he scored due to slower shooting.
“I watched the shooting a lot. The boys told me that the shooting range was very demanding here, so I shot slowly,” he told Czech Television.
Štvrtecký, who replaced Tomáš Krupčík in the team, took the baton in twelfth place. The 21-year-old national team recharged five times together, but avoided the penalty round. He had a fourth running time, yet he dropped to fourteenth place and the loss of the Czechs increased to more than a minute.
The most experienced Czech national team member Moravec only finished once once, but after a great stand he was not good enough for the best in the run. He took half a minute on the track in the final lap. He moved the Czech quartet to the end of the top ten and sent Krčmář to the finish line with a loss of a minute and three quarters.
The innkeeper showed an excellent performance at the shooting range, shooting down all ten targets in the fastest time of the fourth section. He got a taste for Saturday’s fighter, where he lost the chance for a better position with two mistakes on the final item.
“I was sound angry. It turned me on yesterday. That’s how biathlon is done,” praised Pyongyang, an silver Olympic medalist. “I have to race like this all year, take healthy risks. I didn’t invent anything. I don’t remember the stand at all, I just came and suddenly I had a shot. It’s a good injection for me,” he said after moving the Czech team five places forward. The Czechs lost a minute and 35 seconds to the best Swedes.
The winners were decided by the final shooting. The Swede Sebastian Samuelsson refrained a lot because he failed to recharge one round, but the Norwegian leader of the SP Johannes Thingnes Bö did not use it and had to go to the penalty round. Even so, the Norwegians kept second place with a loss of 16.6 seconds to the Swedes. The Nordic powers exchanged orders from Kontiolahti. The third place from Finland was repeated by the Germans.
The next round of the Biathlon World Cup will also take place in Hochfilzen. It will start on Thursday, December 17 with a men’s sprint.
Biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen (Austria):
Men & # 39; s 4 × 7.5 km Relay: 1. Sweden (Femling, Nelin, Ponsiluoma, Samuelsson) 1: 16: 31.5 (0 penalty circuits + 8 recharges), 2. Norway (Laegreid, Dale, T. Bö, JT Bö) -5.7 (1 +11), 3. Germany (Lesser, Rees, Doll, Horn) -44.1 (0 + 7), 4. Russia -1: 13.5 (1 + 9), 5. Czechia (Mikyska, Štvrtecký, Moravec, Krčmář) -1: 35.1 (0 + 6), 6. France -1: 51.3 (3 + 12).
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