Russian biathletes became third in the relay at the World Cup stage

Russian biathletes won bronze medals in the 4x6 kilometer relay at the sixth stage of the World Cup, which takes place in Italian Anterselva.

Russians Yekaterina Glazyrina, Svetlana Sleptsova, Olga Zaitseva and Olga Vilukhina, who used 11 additional cartridges and set off for 1 penalty circle, lost 21.4 seconds to the winner of the rack to the France team (Marie-Lor Bruna, Sophie Boylei, Anai Bessonki and Marie Doren-Abber), showing the time 1 hour 17 minutes 6.5 seconds and did not close 9.5 seconds and did not close targets (0 penalties).

“In general, I am satisfied with the performance of the team. All the athletes ran well, taking into account the conditions of the Middle Ages. I will not allocate any of the girls, they all looked normally. Tomorrow we are still waiting for a mass start, and then a week of relaxation in front of the Holmen College,” commented on the results of the start of the Russian Biathlonian website, the senior coach of the Russian women's national team Wolfgang Pichler.

Silver medals went to the national team of Belarus as part of Nadezhda Skardino, Lyudmila Kalinchik, Anastasia Duborazova and Daria Domracheva (10 misses, 0 penalty circles).