Biathlon – Page 70 – FasterSkier

Canadians, Led by Gow in 9th, Improve in Junior Individual Races – Updated

Chelsea LittleFebruary 2, 2011

In an individual race in biathlon, every missed shot adds a minute to an athlete’s ski time, so it’s even more important to hit all the targets than it might be in other formats. Canadian Scott Gow had missed two shots over the first three stages of the junior men’s 15 k individual race at World Junior Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic on Wednesday, which normally wouldn’t bode well. But today, it did –...

Biathlon General World Cup

Svendsen Named To Norwegian World Championship Team, and Not All Are Pleased

Chelsea LittleFebruary 2, 2011

First, retired star Thomas Alsgaard showed up at Norwegian national championships and placed third in the 15 k classic, leading commentators and fans alike to bemoan the state of the national team. Sure, Alsgaard is an amazing talent and is training fairly seriously for marathons, but should a man who has been retired for almost ten years be able to beat everyone except Martin Sundby Johnsrud and Eldar Roenning? Then the Norwegian team for World...

Biathlon General Juniors Results

Canadian Stuart Harden 18th in Youth Individual at Biathlon World Juniors – Updated

Chelsea LittleFebruary 1, 20115

How poor was the shooting on the third day of biathlon World Junior Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic? In two races on Tuesday – the youth men’s and women’s individual – only a single athlete, Pavel Hancharou of Belarus, shot clean for the four stages of the race. He was rewarded with a 48-second victory in the 12.5 k race and his first World Juniors gold medal. Second-place Steffen Bartscher of Germany was so...

Biathlon General Juniors Results

Kjorlien Leads North American Ladies Again at Biathlon World Juniors

Chelsea LittleJanuary 31, 20111

When American biathlete Kelly Kjorlien arrived in the Czech Republic for IBU Youth/Junior World Championships, she was confident – but she also came down with a cough. Has that slowed her down so far? No, not at all. After finishing 27th in Saturday’s youth women’s 6 k sprint, Kjorlien told FasterSkier that she was excited going into the pursuit, because shooting was her “strong point” and there were four shooting stages in which to best...

Biathlon General Juniors Results

No New Biathlon Medalists in Men’s World Juniors Pursuits- Updated

Chelsea LittleJanuary 31, 2011

While all of the medalists from Saturday’s youth and junior men’s sprints repeated on the podium in Sunday’s pursuits, there was still plenty of excitement on the second day of World Youth and Junior Biathlon Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. In the junior men’s 12.5 k pursuit, Germany’s Tom Barth, who started with bib one and a 16-second advantage over teammate Johannes Kuhn, had to fight just to stay on the podium after missing...

Biathlon General Juniors Results

Kjorlien’s 27th Leads North American Women in World Junior Biathlon Sprints

Chelsea LittleJanuary 29, 2011

The single most dominating performance on the first day of Biathlon World Youth and Junior Championships came in the second race on Saturday, the junior women’s 7.5 k sprint. Dorothea Wierer of Italy shot clean to win the race by over a minute. It wasn’t an entirely surprising result: Wierer has contested every Junior Worlds series since 2007, and won a gold medal in Ruhpolding in 2008 and one in Canmore in 2009. And of...

Biathlon General Juniors Results

Canadians Put Two Men in Top 20 In World Junior Biathlon Sprints

Chelsea LittleJanuary 29, 2011

After a tough first day of competition at the World Youth and Junior Biathlon Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic on Saturday, the American and Canadian men will be on the offensive in Sunday’s pursuit. With the top 60 finishers from today’s sprint races qualifying to move on, the North American teams – which notched just two top-30 performances – will have plenty of pursuing to do. “Overall the Canadian team didn’t have a stellar...

Biathlon General Juniors

More Medals? A World Youth and Junior Biathlon Championships Preview

Chelsea LittleJanuary 27, 2011

When the World Youth and Junior Biathlon Championships kick off in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic on Saturday, both the U.S. and Canadian teams will have high hopes. How high? In 2010 in Torsby, Sweden, Canadian Rose-Marie Cote won a bronze medal in the youth 10 k individual. In 2009 in Canmore, Canada, American Grace Boutot won silver in the same event, and Canadian Yolaine Oddou was one spot behind her. That was a banner year...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

American Men 9th in Biathlon Relay, Best Result in a Year – With Photos

Chelsea LittleJanuary 24, 20113

It’s not as if the U.S. men’s biathlon team hasn’t shown its potential this year: Lowell Bailey led the beginning of the last relay before missing too many shots to maintain his position, and Bailey has had a number of top-20 finishes in individual races, while Tim Burke has two top-20’s and Leif Nordgren shot clean to finish 35th in the very first World Cup race of the season. But still, the biathlon world was...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Berger Ekes Out Mass Start Win Despite Two Penalties; Overall Leader Makarainen DQ’ed

Chelsea LittleJanuary 24, 2011

While the once-dominant Norwegian men are in a slump right now, their teammate Tora Berger is just getting started. With an exhilarating mass start win in Antholz, Italy on Sunday – which came down to the final hundred meters but at the same time was a foregone conclusion at least a kilometer earlier – Berger collected her fourth victory in as many individual races, after winning Friday’s sprint by almost 30 seconds as well as...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Fourcade Is One Shot Closer to Perfect In Mass Start Win, But Ferry “Has Superpower”

Chelsea LittleJanuary 23, 2011

In the final shooting stage of Saturday’s mass start World Cup in Antholz, Italy, Martin Fourcade of France and Bjorn Ferry of Sweden went shot-for-shot for four bullets, each dropping all the targets. But while Fourcade quickly hit the fifth target, Ferry hesitated, waiting for the perfect shot. He kept waiting and waiting… and missed. While Ferry headed to the penalty loop, Daniel Mesotitsch of Austria and Anton Shipulin of Russia shot clean and embarked...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

U.S. Women Strong in Last Sprint of World Cup Period 2; Berger Picks Up Third Consecutive Win

Chelsea LittleJanuary 22, 2011

While there’s a full schedule of World Cup racing scheduled in Antholz, Italy this weekend, Friday’s sprint might very well have been the last individual race the U.S. women had a chance to contest in Europe before World Championships. With a relay on Saturday and a mass start, capped at thirty athletes, on Sunday, and then the entire World Cup circuit picking up and heading to the U.S. for a few weeks in February, the...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Bailey 12th in Antholz World Cup Sprint – Updated

Chelsea LittleJanuary 21, 20111

In Antholz, Italy on Thursday, Lowell Bailey of the United States was one shot out of the top five and just two seconds away from his first World Cup top-10. As it was, he had the tenth-fastest ski time of the day, the second-fastest shooting time, two penalties, and finished 12th overall. It was the top American result of the season so far. “It was a great race for me,” Bailey told FasterSkier in an...

Biathlon General World Cup

Rupholding Courses, New for 2012 World Champs, Get Rave Reviews

Chelsea LittleJanuary 20, 20111

When the small town of Ruhpolding, Germany, bid to host biathlon’s 2012 World Championships, they knew they had their work cut out for them. “Preparations for the World Champs 2012 start now,” said Mayor Claus Pichler in August 2008 when Ruhpolding won the bid. “I got plenty of feedback from the delegates at the IBU Congress.” And they have been busy ever since, completely renovating and reconfiguring the area’s stadium as well as giving the...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

With World Cup Pursuit Victory, Tora Berger Gives Family Three Wins in Three Days

Chelsea LittleJanuary 17, 2011

Laura Spector led he U.S. women with a 41st-place finish, while Rosanna Crawford of Canada finished the first World Cup pursuit of her career.

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Ferry Is Golden Again in Ruhpolding Pursuit; Bailey Sneaks Into Top 30

Chelsea LittleJanuary 16, 2011

Ruhpolding, Germany, has been both kind and cruel to Olympic gold medalist Bjorn Ferry of Sweden. On one hand, the summer before his Olympic victory, he crashed while rollerskiing at the venue. The impact broke his collarbone and he had to have surgery and give up a period of training. But on the other, Ruhpolding is his second home. “I have trained here three times every year for the past ten years, so I have...

Biathlon Continental Cup General Results

Barnes, Cook, and Hakkinen End IBU Cup Campaign on High Notes

Chelsea LittleJanuary 15, 2011

When U.S. biathletes left Altenberg, Germany after the pursuit race on Saturday, they were saying goodbye not only to the venue, but to the entire IBU Cup circuit. While the U.S. Biathlon Association is supporting the World Cup team for the rest of the year, no more Continental Cup races will be funded. Luckily, the team had plenty of satisfying results while in Europe, so the trip ended on a positive note. “I’m proud of...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

How Many Norwegians? With Perfect Shooting, Berger Makes It Four

Chelsea LittleJanuary 15, 2011

So far this season, three Norwegian men have dominated the World Cup biathlon circuit, taking wins when it suits them and not always playing nicely together. 22-year-old Tarjei Boe currently sits atop the overall World Cup rankings, followed closely by teammate Emil Hegle Svendsen. Veteran Ole Einar Bjorndalen, who has won 92 World Cups in his career but only one this year, is third, giving the Norwegians a clean sweep of the standings halfway through...

Biathlon Continental Cup General Results

U.S. Women Continue Hot Streak in IBU Cup Competition

Chelsea LittleJanuary 14, 2011

After last week’s success at the IBU Cup races in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, U.S. biathlete and 2010 Olympian Haley Johnson was promoted to the World Cup. You might think that sending the top finisher off to Rupholding would slow down the American women racing on biathlon’s second-most prestigious circuit. But you’d be wrong. Susan Dunklee, Tracy Barnes, and Annelies Cook – who all missed qualifying for the Olympics last year – didn’t need Johnson...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Only The Strong Survive In Rainy Rupholding Shooter’s Duel – Updated

Chelsea LittleJanuary 14, 20112

To say that it was raining in Rupholding, Germany, on Thursday would be an understatement. “It was pouring rain, perhaps the worst rain I’ve ever skied in, winter or summer,” said U.S. biathlete Sara Studebaker. “It was tough out there… today was all about fighting through the conditions.” For most of the women’s World Cup field, it was a tough fight as the tracks slowed to a cement-like consistency and the downhills became rutted and...

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