Biathlon | Idre Fjäll Sprint: Elvira Oeberg’s turn to impress in the Swedish opening races, Lisa Vittozzi still fourth

Biathlon: Elvira Oeberg demonstrates at Idre Fjäll

The second women’s sprint of Sweden’s opening biathlon races took place in Idre Fjäll (Sweden) on a sunny Sunday morning. Hanna Oeberg (8/10), who was imperious in the same exercise on Saturday, made a mistake on each run and her time was extended by 50 seconds, but failed to double her tally.

This time it was her little sister Elvira Oeberg (10/10) who put in the perfect performance. Faultless in her shooting and very fast on the cross-country track, as usual, she won the 8km sprint by a wide margin.

Germany’s Janina Hettich-Walz (8/10), second in this race, was pushed back by more than a minute, as was Hanna Oeberg, who was nevertheless third in this Sunday sprint. Italy’s Lisa Vittozzi (8/10), second after the standing sprint, broke down a little in the last lap and had to make do, as she had the day before, with fourth place,… 1 second off the podium.

Anna Magnusson (9/10), Emma Nilsson (10/10), Ella Halvarsson (8/10), Vanessa Voigt (9/10), Marlene Fichtner (9/10) and Julia Tannheimer (7/10) rounded off the morning’s top 10.

Further back are Selina Grotian (7/10) in twelfth place, Sara Andersson (7/10) in thirteenth, Sophia Schneider (8/10) in fourteenth, Elsa Taenglander (17/20) in twentieth and Tuuli Tomingas (7/10) in twenty-fifth.

Full results

• Two sprints without penalty laps: the full programme for the Swedish opening races at Idre Fjäll
• The Swedish national team begins its final preparation camp on the snow of Idre Fjäll
• Sprint test at Idre Fjäll: Anna Magnusson and Martin Ponsiluoma win with 10/10
• Germany goes on a two-week training camp in Idre Fjäll… except for Franziska Preuss, who will finish her preparation in Obertilliach
• The Italian stars head for Scandinavia: Lisa Vittozzi and Lukas Hofer go to Idre Fjäll and then Östersund, while Tommaso Giacomel and Dorothea Wierer go to Geilo.
• Change of programme at Idre Fjäll due to lack of snow
• Idre Fjäll: no Swedish opening races for Anna-Karin Heijdenberg and Johanna Skottheim, who are ill
• Swedish opening races at Idre Fjäll: Hanna Oeberg wins a high-level sprint ahead of Elvira Oeberg and Linn Gestblom, Lisa Vittozzi fourth
• Idre Fjäll: Sebastian Samuelsson crushes the men’s sprint, Germany’s Philipp Horn and Simon Kaiser on the podium