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.
Hannah Dreissigacker (USA)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER) has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance.
Tarjei Bø (NOR)
Benjamin Weger (SUI)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER)
Darya Domracheva (BLR) starting the sprint in Hochfilzen, Austria, earlier this season.
Simon Fourcade (FRA, left)
Karin Oberhofer (ITA)
Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)
Dominik Landertinger (AUT)
Fredrik Lindstrom (SWE)
Evi Sachenbacher Stehle (GER) and Jitka Landova (CZE)
Daniel Mesotitsch (AUT)
skiers cresting a hill on course
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.
Jakov Fak (SLO)
Fanny Welle Strand Horn (NOR)
Andreas Birnbacher (GER)
Simon Schempp and Daniel Boehm (GER)
Jakov Fak (SLO)
Andreas Birnbacher (GER)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Magdalena Gwizdon (POL)
Laura Dahlmeier (GER)
Federica Sanfilippo (ITA)
Sarah Murphy (NZL, via Canada)
Lanny Barnes (USA) and Krystyna Palka (POL)
Michal Slesingr (CZE)
Synnøve Solemdal (NOR)
Vladimiar Iliev (BUL, left) and Tarjei Bø (NOR)
Anais Chevalier (FRA)
Andrea Henkel (GER)
Carl Johan Bergman (SWE) and Martin Fourcade (FRA)
Ann Kristin Flatland (NOR)
Lanny Barnes (USA)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Krystyna Palka (POL)
Tarjei Bø (NOR)
Andrea Henkel (GER)
Martina Chrapanova (SVK)
Skiers winding back and forth along a hillside
Kaisa Makarainen (FIN)
Jitka Landova (CZE) and Andreja Mali (SLO)
Dmitry Malyshko (RUS)
Evgeniy Ustyugov (RUS), Pavel Hurajt (SVK), and Hidenori Isa (JPN)
Markus Windisch (ITA)
Emil Hegle Svendsen (NOR)
Nadezhda Skardino (BLR)
Juliya Dhzyma (UKR)
Darya Domracheva (BLR)
Christoph Sumann (AUT)
Klemen Bauer of Slovenia racing at a World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria, in 2013.
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.
