Biathlon: Denise Herrmann wins the Kontiolahti Sprint, royal podium for Stina Nilsson, Wierer seventeenth

A chaotic race in Kontiolahti sees the victory of the German while the first individual podium in the Biathlon is celebrated by the Swedish Stina Nilsson, author of the best time on skis and a 9/10 in shooting.

Saturday 5 March 2022 3 minutes reading time

As happened yesterday for Dominik Windisch, the news arrives in the morning of Lisa Vittozzi's positive buffer that cuts her out of the race and in all probability from the next stage. There are no Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians, the balance at the showdown is that almost half of the top 60 in the World Cup standings are absent. During the race the information system goes haywire with errors and gaps randomly assigned in the official leaderboard making it extremely complex to follow the race for commentators and the public. At the end of the day, the German Denise Herrmann (0 + 1) of 5.0 Tiril Eckhoff (0-1) and of 5.2 an unleashed Stina Nilsson (0-1) on the first podium in her biathlete career prevails. cross-country skier makes compatriot Hanna Oeberg (1-0), fourth at 6.8, drop off the podium to lay all the conditions for an exciting Pursuit scheduled for tomorrow. In the club of athletes with an error, there are only 5 10/10 of the day, Anais Chevalier (1-0) is also found, fifth at 15.5. The German Vanessa Voigt (0-0) is sixth at 16.7 while Elvira Oeberg (1-1), author just 2 seconds from Nilsson's best time on skis, remains seventh at 18.5 and precedes Mars Roeiseland by 10 seconds ( 1-1). The Finnish Eder (0-1) is ninth at 29.1 and the Swedish (4 in the top 10) is tenth, Persson (0-1) at 32.0. to 33.7. Dorothea Wierer (2-0) sees her race compromised by the error at the last target on the ground and closes in seventeenth position at 52.4 seconds from Herrmann.

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