Latvian biathlete Andrejs Rastorgujevs On Saturday, December 5, in the second stage of the World Cup, Kontiolahti made a mistake five times in the shooting range and took 32nd place in the driving competition.
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Leading Latvian biathlete Rastorgujev, who started with the 42nd minute and 48.7 seconds behind the Norwegian Tarjee Be, was punctual in the first shooting range and climbed to the 32nd place. However, two mistakes in the second line of fire dropped him back to 39th place, less than two minutes behind the leader.
The third and fifth bullets flew in the first standing shooting range “after milk”, with the Latvian biathlete slipping to 40th place. Another mistake in the fourth shot meant that he would not be able to climb anything higher, taking the 35th place after the fourth shot. He was 32nd in the finish, two minutes and 29.5 seconds behind the winner.
The winner of the sprint, Tarjee Bé, made a mistake three times in the first shooting range, retiring to the 15th place and taking the lead with his brother Juhannes Tīngnēs Bē, who was not pushed out of the first place by one failure in the third shooting range.
However, two mistakes in the last shooting range, including the last shot, shattered Bea’s chances of victory.
The winner was Sebastian Samuelson from Sweden, who had the first victory of his career in driving. He was 15.8 seconds ahead of Frenchman Fabian Claude, who rose from 11th place in the sprint to second place with one “poodle”. He had never won a second place in the World Cup.
The third was finished by Juhann Tinggnes Bay, but his brother Tarje, who made a mistake in the shooting five times, took 12th place.
Last season, the Frenchman Emiljen Jacqueline won the Small Crystal Globe in the discipline. Norwegian Juhann Tinggnes Bä triumphed in the overall ranking of all disciplines.
On Thursday, Roberts Slotiņš finished in the sprint in 79th place, Kirill Matjuhins in 98th place and was not included in the top 60 biathletes who gained the right to participate in the run.
In the first stage of the season, which also took place in Kontiolahti last week, Rastorgujev took 21st place in the 20-kilometer individual distance, and 23rd in the sprint.
Last season, Rastorguyev Kontiolahti retreated to 35th place in the sprint after 35th place in the sprint, shooting six times. His best chase last season was 19th in Hohfilzen, making a mistake in the shooting range only once and moving up from 39th in the sprint.
The best place in the World Cup for the leader of the Latvian national team is 2013/2014. won the fourth place in the Oberhof season.
On Thursday, December 3, Annija Keita Sabule, the only representative of Latvia in the women’s competition, shot all ten goals and took the high 69th place in the competition of 103 athletes.
On Saturday, there will be a 4×6 kilometer relay for women, in which Latvia does not participate, but on Sunday, without the participation of Latvian representatives, there will be a women’s relay and a 4×7.5 kilometer relay for men, for which the Latvian four have entered.
The Latvian national team participates in an unusual composition in the first two stages.
It has already been reported that Bovila Baiba Bendika and the head coach of the national team Ilmārs Bricis, who do not participate in the first two World Cup stages, had positive tests at the Covid-19 training camp in Sweden.
Slotiņš, Sabule and Rastorgujev were the first to come to Finland. Athletes in Sweden – Aleksandrs Patrijuks, Sanita Buliņa and Edgars Mise – went home as a precaution, but in Finland juniors Rūdis Balodis, Renārs Birkentāls, Kirils Matjuhins and Ieva Pūce joined the team last week. Intars Berkulis, who has been in Finland since last Monday, will be the head coach of Kontiolahti in the first two stages.
After Kontiolahti, two World Cup stages will take place in Hohfilzen in December. Athletes will start the new year with two stages in Oberhof, but a stage in Antholz-Anterselv is planned. Pokļuka will host the world championship in February, followed by two stages in Nove Mesto, and the end of the season is scheduled for the second half of March in Oslo.
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