Olga Zaitseva opened an account with Russian biathlonists to the victories

On Sunday, as part of the fourth stage of the Biathlon World Cup, a female pursuit of 10 km with four fire lines, whose winner was the leader of the Russian team Olga Zaitseva, took place in the German Oberhof.

The second with a delay of more than 25 seconds became Czech Veronika Vitkova, who for a couple of moments, which had been ahead of the Ukrainian Valentina Semerenko. Both medalists made one miss, while the winner was mistaken at the shooting range three times.

This is the first success of the pupils of the German mentor Wolfgang Pichler this season. A day earlier, in men, Dmitry Malyshko won the first individual victory in a 10 km sprint race.

The men's persecution race starts in Oberhof at 18:35 Moscow time.