MWSC biathletes BethAnn Chamberlain and Walt Shepard, along with MWSC alum, Laura Spector, headed to Germany today for the last stage of Olympic Trials. They will be joined by Zach Hall, Susan Dunklee and Sarah Studebaker for a training camp at Rhupolding, Germany. The contingent will then travel to Altenburg, Germany to meet up with the rest of the US Team, competing for the ffinal two spots on the Men’s Team and final three spots on the Women’s teams.br /br /The competitions start Thursday January 7th with a 10K Sprint time trial between just the US Team. That will be followed by another Sprint competition on Saturday, this one as a part of the Altenburg IBU Cup Race. The last race will be a Pursuit race on Sunday, also as a part of the IBU Cup.br /br /Each race will be scored with a percent-back score and the two highest scores from the three race series will count for each athlete. The top two Men and top-three Women will be named to the 2010 US Olympic Team on Sunday January 10th, after the final race.br /br /The athletes who make the Olympic Team will join the World Cup Team for races in Rhupolding, Germany and Antholtz, Italy. The rest of the athletes will travel to Novo Mesto, in the Czech Republic for an IBU Cup series.br /br /The following athletes will be competing for the final spots on the Olympic Team:br /br /strongMEN/strongbr /Walt Shepard (MWSC), Lowell Bailey (MWSC Alum), Wynn Roberts, Zach Hall, Lief Nordgren, Kevin Patzholtbr /br /strongWOMEN/strongbr /BethAnn Chamberlain (MWSC), Tracy Colliander (MWSC Alum), Lanny Barnes (MWSC Alum), Laura Spector (MWSC Alum), Susan Dunklee, Sarah Studebakerdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6813061107698506856-8483509314534555315?l=mwscbiathlon.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
