HOCHFILZEN, Austria – The action was fast, it was slow, it was colorful in the men’s and women’s 7.5 and 10 k sprints on Friday. Snowstorms meant changing conditions over the course of both races, but the world’s best biathletes still tried their hardest to knock down targets and get their skis moving in the snow that piled up on course. Here are some photos of the day’s action.
Nadezhda Skardino (BLR)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Ekaterina Glazyrina (RUS)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Jakov Fak (SLO)
Martina Chrapanova (SVK)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER) and Jitka Landova (CZE)
Hannah Dreissigacker (USA)
Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR)
Synnøve Solemdal (NOR)
Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Sarah Murphy (NZL, via Canada)
Darya Domracheva (BLR) starting the sprint in Hochfilzen, Austria, earlier this season.
Simon Eder (AUT)
Michal Slesingr (CZE)
Simon Schempp and Daniel Boehm (GER)
Andreas Birnbacher (GER)
Andreas Birnbacher (GER)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER)
Krystyna Palka (POL)
Carl Johan Bergman (SWE) and Martin Fourcade (FRA)
Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)
Andrea Henkel (GER)
Klemen Bauer of Slovenia racing at a World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria, in 2013.
Tarjei Bø (NOR)
Darya Domracheva (BLR)
Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)
Bjorn Ferry of Sweden racing in Hochfilzen, Austria, earlier this season. He won today’s World Cup sprint in Pokljuka, Slovenia, by 1.5 seconds.
Magdalena Gwizdon (POL)
Anais Chevalier (FRA)
Benjamin Weger (SUI)
Tarjei Bø (NOR)
Fanny Welle Strand Horn (NOR)
Michal Krcmar (CZE, right) and Lukas Hofer (ITA)
Lanny Barnes (USA) and Krystyna Palka (POL)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER) has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance.
Evgeniy Ustyugov (RUS), Pavel Hurajt (SVK), and Hidenori Isa (JPN)
Chelsea Little is FasterSkier's Editor-At-Large. A former racer at Ford Sayre, Dartmouth College and the Craftsbury Green Racing Project, she is a PhD candidate in aquatic ecology in the @Altermatt_lab at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. You can follow her on twitter @ChelskiLittle.
