Photo Gallery: One Training Day in Ruhpolding

The Chiemgau Arena, a shooting range with paved rollerski loops just outside of Ruhpolding, Germany, is a venue unlike almost anything in North America, with the exception perhaps of a few former Olympic sites. And even if Soldier Hollow has nice rollerskiing, too, Ruhpolding has a bit more: other teams, for one, but also spectators who show up even in the summer just to watch some of the world’s top biathletes train.

Here are a few of our photos from a morning of training earlier this week, when the U.S. national team and the National Guard team joined three German groups as well as the Ukrainians to use the range for a workout.

: Susan Dunklee (front) and Sara Studebaker click their magazines into place before a prone stage.

: Jay Hakkinen (front) and Tim Burke drop in for a speed.

: Annelies Cook lines up in prone as Russell Currier skates away.

: U.S. women’s coach Jonne Kahkonen discusses a shooting stage with Susan Dunklee.

: Russell Currier shooting prone.

: Tim Burke hones his shooting.

: Per Nilsson checks in on Lowell Bailey after a prone stage.

: National Guard coaches Sarah Lehto and Travis Voyer observe their athletes.

: Lowell Bailey in the midst of a speed.

: Annelies Cook in a standing stage.

: German men ski past, cooling down from a sprint workout.

: Looking down the range at the beginning of the Americans’ training session.

: Sara Studebaker training in Ruhpolding, Germany this summer.

: The view from the end of the range into the mountains.

: Leif Nordgren doing one of the ten speeds in his workout.

: Jake Dalgren of the National Guard skates through the range.

: Spectators show up to the Chiemgau Arena even in the summer!

: Leif Nordgren on the range.

: U.S. and National Guard coaches line the range; women’s coach Jonne Kahkonen holds up a magnetic board showing an athlete where their shots fell on the target.