Biathlon: Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold battled to the end
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold worked hard on Sunday to claim her second victory in two days in the opening Norwegian biathlon races in Sjusjøen (Norway). A solid winner of the previous day’s sprint, this time the Norwegian pulled out all the stops to win the mass-start.
In control from the start of the event, the Scandinavian was heading into the final shot of the day with a comfortable lead. However, the 28-year-old biathlete still had a scare in this final run on the mats. Faulted twice, she ultimately failed to make the hoped-for finish.
In her duel with her young compatriot Maren Kirkeeide, triple gold medallist at the last European championships in Brezno-Osrblie (Slovakia), last season’s world number three had to call on her experience: “Maren had a superb race. I had to try and contain her as much as possible,” she told NRK.
This she managed to do right up until the final sprint, when her team-mate gave nothing away. However, the 21-year-old biathlete was lacking in the face of the leader of her national team. “I made a bad tactical manoeuvre in the sprint, she concedes. I should have gone around her but she was simply too strong.”
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold followed up her dramatic win with a second success in a row at the weekend in Innlandet. It was a great way to build her confidence and put herself in the right frame of mind less than two weeks before she returns to the elite of her discipline in Kontiolahti (Finland): “I feel I’m where I should be physically,” she admits with satisfaction.
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