Confirmations and surprises in the first race-testing of Canmore snow

On Tuesday in Canmore it was held an internal competition at the Canadian team that was also attended by American and Ukrainian biathletes, present on site for a training camp. What emerged was an interesting test of international character.

Friday 11 November 2016 5 minutes reading time

Obviously these are the beginning of competitions in November the results should be taken lightly, especially since athletes can arrive at very different stages of athletic work, as some are likely to have already secured the place for the first stages and therefore do not need to shine in these tests. However, the men's sprint saw the Ukrainians on their shields, with thirty-one (imported Russian) Vladimir Semakov doing better than many of the most quoted compatriots, especially by virtue of superior precision shooting. The pitch was in fact deficient than that sported by Artem Pryma and Dmytro Pidruchnyi. The 'only one to slip into the plethora of Ukrainians who settled in the first positions was the American Lowell Bailey, the only (along with a junior who finished in the rear) among 44 starters find the shoot-out at the shooting range. Tim Burke held a similar pace, but definitely wrong more, finishing seventh. So the Canadian hosts have not done properly impress. The best of the representatives of the leaf 'Acero turned out to be Scott Gow, sixth, just ahead of his brother Christian, eighth. Brendan Green proved so perky on narrow skis as disastrous for pitch. Totally anonymous Nathan Smith performance. SPRINT MASCHILE1. SEMAKOV Vladimir [UKR] (1 + 0) 28''36 "02. BAILEY Lowell [USA] (0 + 0) 4" 53. PRYMA Artem [UKR] (0 + 2) to 8 "94. ZHYRNYI Oleksander [UKR] (0 + 2) 35" 85. PIDRUCHNYI Dmytro [UKR] (0 + 3) 37 "66. GOW Scott [CAN] (0 + 1) 45" 87. BURKE Tim [USA] (1 + 2) to 1''29 "88. GOW Christian [CAN] (1 + 0) to 1''33" 39. GREEN Brendan [CAN] (3 + 2) to 2''11 "710. CURRIER Russell [USA] (2 + 2) to 2''12" 2.12. KILCHYTSKYY Vitaly [UKR] (3 + 2) to 2''26 "214. DAVIES Macx [CAN] (1 + 4) at 3''06" 917. SMITH Nathan [CAN] (3 + 1) to 3''41 "218. Leif Nordgren [USA] (2 + 1) to 3''55" 5 As for the female sector, he is admired a Rosanna Crawford overflowing. With the same mistakes the twenty-eight dell''Alberta has inflicted more than half a minute of posting to the American team point diamond Susan Dunklee. However between the two it has entered a surprise US un''altra, the twenty-four Joanne Reid, who has unexpectedly kept a similar pace to that of the foreman. Remarkable also evidence of young Megan Bankes, born in 1997, able to do better than more experienced countrymen and listed as Julian Ransom and Megan Tandy. SPRINT FEMMINILE1. CRAWFORD Rosanna [CAN] (2 + 1) 28''11 "02. REID Joanne [USA] (1 + 2) in 34" 43. Susan Dunklee [USA] (2 + 1) 35 "04. Bankes Megan [CAN] (1 + 0) 43" 65. RANSON Julia [CAN] (1 + 2) to 1''00 "36. TANDY Megan [CAN] (1 + 2) to 1''10" 87. MOSER Nadia [CAN] (0 + 1) to 1''14 "38. Emma Lunder [CAN] (0 + 3) to 1''30" 49. BEAUDRY Sarah [CAN] (1 + 2) to 2''05 "510. EGAN Claire [USA] (0 + 2) to 2''22" 0

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