Kruglov won a sprint in Oberhof

At the stage of the Biathlon World Cup passing in the German Oberhof on Saturday, a race of 10 kilometers in men took place on Saturday. The strongest in this sprint discipline was Russian Nikolai Kruglov, who for 3.5 seconds ahead of the leader of the general standings of the German Michael Grais. The third place was taken by the Italian Renee Laurent Villermozh.

Despite the fact that Graice was going on later Kruglova and showed the best time after both firing borders, the victory still went to Nikolai, RTR-Sport notes. For the first time this season, the Russian rose to the podium.

Other representatives of our team successfully performed, ”Ivan Cherezov showed the fourth time, Dmitry Yaroshenko - fifth, Maxim Chudov was the seventh, and Sergey Rozhkov eight. Thus, the Russians have a great opportunity to show high results in tomorrow's pursuit.

As the Soviet Sport notes, Oberhof was terrible weather conditions, because of which many recognized arrows suddenly often missed. So, for example, the titled Norwegian Ule-Einar Bjornalen allowed 2 misfires at each of the borders and finished only with the 30th time.