Biathlon: men’s sprint in Kontiolahti on Friday
The Biathlon World Cup in Kontiolahti (Finland) continues this Friday with the men’s sprint. At 16:20, Germany’s David Zobel, bib number 1 in the race, will start. After that, before the line-up of favourites, there will be Thierry Langer (6), Antonin Guigonnat (7), Dmytro Pidruchnyi (11) and Tero Seppälä (12).
Vebjoern Soerum (16) was the big winner among the big names, followed by Niklas Hartweg (17), Florent Claude (18), Quentin Fillon-Maillet (20), Philipp Horn (24), Jesper Nelin (28), Didier Bionaz (30), Fabien Claude (36), Sebastian Stalder (38), Lukas Hofer (40), the blue bib Vitalii Mandzyn (41), Tommaso Giacomel (42) and Johannes Kuehn (44), Eric Perrot (46), Sturla Holm Lægreid (48), Campbell Wright (49), Martin Ponsiluoma (50), the red bib Tarjei Boe (52), the yellow bib Endre Stroemsheim (54), Johannes Dale-Skjevdal (56), Emilien Jacquelin (58), Sebastian Samuelsson (62), Johannes Thingnes Boe (64), Emilien Claude (65) or Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen (68) will start their race.
At the end of the competition, Felix Leitner (70), Jeremy Finello (72), Anton Ivarsson (75), Daniele Cappellari (78), Blagoy Todev (80), Tomas Mikyska (81), Jakub Borgula (94), César Beauvais (96) and Arttu Heikkinen (102) will all be watching out for.
The complete start list for the men’s sprint
[Local time indicated on the pdf, subtract one hour for French time].
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