Biathlon: time for the women’s sprint in Lenzerheide
This Friday, after a well-deserved rest day following the opening mixed relay, the biathlon world championships in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) continue with the women’s sprint.
This first individual race of the competition gets underway at 3.05pm with the start of Poland’s Anna Maka, who has pulled number 1. The first group also includes Valentina Dimitrova (3), Anna Andexer (4), Erika Jänkä (6), Tuuli Tomingas (7), Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold (10), Elisa Gasparin (13) and Baiba Bendika (14).
Then, in the blue group, Maya Cloetens (16), Yuliia Dzhima (18), Karoline Knotten (20), Tereza Vobornikova (22), Julia Tannheimer (24), Eve Bouvard (25), Hannah Auchentaller (26), Amy Baserga (28), Anastasiya Kuzmina (29), Anamarija Lampic (30), Anna Gandler (31), Anna Magnusson (32), Lena Haecki-Gross (34), Ragnhild Femsteinevik (35), Paulina Batovska Fialkova (36), Hanna Oeberg (38) and Milena Todorova (40) are expected in the starting gate.
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet last favourite to start with n°68
Finland’s Suvi Minkkinen, in her 42, will open the red group. In her wake will be Dorothea Wierer on 44, Franziska Preuss on 46, Julia Simon on 48, Selina Grotian on 50, Maren Kirkeeide on 52, Lou Jeanmonnot on 54, Océane Michelon on 56, Aita Gasparin on 57, Lotte Lie on 58, Elvira Oeberg on 60, Sophia Schneider on 61, Jeanne Richard on 62, Lisa Theresa Hauser on 64, Ella Halvarsson on 66 and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet on 68.
Finally, in the last bibs, we’ll be keeping an eye on the performances ofInka Hämäläinen (70), Lucie Charvatova (72), Gaia Brunello (76), Estere Volfa (77) and Margie Freed (78), Chloe Dupont (79), Lucinda Anderson (81), Ziva Klemencic (82), Shawna Pendry (84), Alla Ghilenko (88), Anika Kozica (89), Chloe Levins (90) and Ukaleq Slettemark (92).
The complete start list
Women’s 7.5 km sprint – 3.05pm
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- Two of the four reigning world champions have been retained: the French mixed relay line-up for Wednesday’s opening round of the World Championships in Lenzerheide.
- “We decided to follow the sporting logic”: Stéphane Bouthiaux explains how the French mixed relay team for the World Championships in Lenzerheide was put together.
- Quentin Fillon-Maillet annoyed at being sidelined in the mixed relay at the world championships in Lenzerheide: “I thought I deserved more consideration from the staff”.
- “We’re aiming for the title”: a year after their triumph in Nove Mesto, France will attempt to make it two in a row in the mixed relay at the World Championships in Lenzerheide.
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- “We couldn’t have got off to a better start than this”: the perfect start for the French team, which won gold in the mixed relay at the world championships in Lenzerheide.
- “I don’t feel like I made a mistake”: Julia Simon recounts her collision with Sweden’s Anna Magnusson during the mixed relay in Lenzerheide
- Julia Simon and Sebastian Samuelsson crash, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Hanna Oeberg fail to shoot: an opening mixed relay full of twists and turns in Lenzerheide
- Lenzerheide: Czech Republic surprise silver medallists in mixed relay
- Lenzerheide: seventh in the mixed relay with Lukas Hofer and Tommaso Giacomel, Italy’s Hannah Auchentaller and Dorothea Wierer battled it out on the difficult Swiss track
- “It was fun”: during the mixed relay at the World Championships in Lenzerheide, Britain’s Shawna Pendry was surprised to ski with her idol Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold.
- Lenzerheide: the day after her fall in the mixed relay, Julia Simon did not take part in the day’s official training session
