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After Loginov's victory in yesterday's Sprint, Russia doubles in Oberhof with the mixed pairs relay. Anonymous performance by Giacomel and Sanfilippo, on Sunday the Pursuits to try to seize the highly anticipated first podium of the season.
Saturday 8 January 2022 2 minutes reading time
The Single Mixed Relay of Oberhof is outlined as a hard-fought test with six teams (Germany, Slovenia, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine and Russia) battling lap after lap in the space of about ten seconds and Italy out of the game after the first fraction of Tommaso Giacomel who, managed with a reload the shooting range on the ground, runs into three penalty laps standing by slipping behind the group.
At the last change the Russia of Reztsova and Babikov (1 + 9) shows up with two seconds on Lesser and Hildebrand (0 + 6), 11.3 on Tyshchenko and Blashko (0 + 9) and 16.9 on Eder's Austria and Hauser (1 + 8). In the final fraction, already from the session on the ground, Reztsova stretches who resorts to a reload while Hauser misses twice and Hildebrand 3. The Russian also defends herself in the standing range to bring her national team to the second stage victory while saving at the 'last Hauser for the second step of the podium, in front of the Ukrainian Blashko.
On the finish line, Russia (1-12) precedes Austria (1 + 13) by 41.5 and Ukraine (0 + 12) by 1.03.6, which climbs to the podium for the first time this season. Belarus is fourth (1 + 11) at 1.15.2, Sweden fifth (2 + 12) and Belgium sixth (0 + 13). Tommaso Giacomel (3 + 7) and Federica Sanfilippo (1 + 10) closed an anonymous performance in fourteenth position at 2.10.1.
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