Belarusian woman becomes biathlon star: She takes medal after medal – Biathlon News

On Saturday, commentator Dmitry Guberniev had to chew his mitten on the live broadcast of Match TV. All due to women who could not interrupt the team’s mediocre streak in the relay. Before the pursuit, he no longer promised anything. Although the Russians were not very far from Dinara Alimbekova: Ulyana Kaisheva was 50 seconds behind, Irina Kazakevich and Larisa Kuklina were losing a little more than a minute, and only Evgenia Pavlova was in 2.

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Alimbekova allowed the pursuers to come to her even before the first line. That’s just the chase of Tiril Eckhoff and Marthe Ulsby-Roiseland there was no further continuation. Both went to the penalty loop. Reiseland, however, was a little more lucky (one miss), so she was not so much behind the Belarusian – 25 seconds. In our country, Kazakevich took the place of the best Russian woman (55 seconds behind), because Kaisheva missed the fourth shot. The rest have been worse so far.

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The second round was unsuccessful for Alimbekova. She stumbled, fell and lost first place to Marketa Davidova. Failure helped Franziska Preuss, Dorothea Wierer, Roiseland and Elvira Oeberg get close to her. Naturally, after the next prone, many of them dropped out. The misses unhooked the Czech and the German. The rest lost to the leading group for more than 20 seconds. Our positions have become even worse. The pursuit was not easy for any of the Russians. Hence the misses.

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On the stand, Wierer and the younger Eberg took off from the contenders for the victory. But Roiseland and Alimbekova continued to shoot accurately. Although the Belarusian lost 8.3 seconds to the Norwegian, she still did not lose anything. She didn’t have to think about the pursuers behind. Wierer and Hannah Oeberg lost to Alimbekova Where 25 seconds. By the way, Kazakevich passed this milestone without fail and again entered the top 15. Irina held onto the swift-footed Eberg.

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Alimbekova did not manage to come to the final line with Reiseland. She was clearly inferior in speed, losing 15 seconds at 7.6 kilometers. With such a backlog, the Norwegian could even afford to miss. And so it happened. Dinara worked cleanly and left the line, losing only 2 seconds to her. But Alimbekova didn’t have the strength to hold on to Reiseland today. The Norwegian ran away from her long before the finish line. But silver is also a great success for the Belarusian. She’s becoming super top. She is already in 2nd place in the overall World Cup – 6 points from Reiseland.

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In the cut, for the bronze, Oeberg gave up to Julie Simon. The Frenchwoman left her after getting up.

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Our girls again would not be able to fight for top-3 and with accurate shooting: Kazakevich finished 14th, Kuklina – 23rd, Kaisheva – 27th, Pavlova – 42nd. On the fourth, the biathletes missed 13 times. At the same time, the weather allowed shooting with a minimum number of errors. Now it seems that the medal anti-record can only be interrupted in any from relay races and no more. Objectively, the team is not yet in those conditions to fight the leaders of the season.

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