France wins both races at the World Championships military patrols

At SodankylÃ¤ concluded today the program of the World Cup biathlon races with military patrols where France won both the gold and then completed the "sweep" after the success of Martin Fourcade and Anais Bescond in the sprint.

Friday 28 March 2014 3 minutes reading time

In this format, the men's distance is 25 km, while the women's 15 km. There is a single polygon (located after 20 km for men and after 10 km for women), where only three of the four members of the patrol to shoot each three targets (instead of five). Each error results in one minute penalty. In the women of France won the gold medal'' fielding Anouk Faivre-Picon, Anais Bescond, Caroline and Celia Hugue Aymonier, so three racers and a biathelta. The quartet transalpine preceded by 18 "8 Germany, silver, formed by Nadine Horchler, Luise Kummer, Anna Siemoneit and Carolin Hennecke. The bronze went to Russia (Yulia Belorukova, Galina Nechkasova, Suraeva Anna, Anna Korbova) detached 2'' 08 "with Sweden fourth, beaten by fifteen seconds. WORLD MILITARY - PATROL women1. FRANCE [FRA] 44'' 10 "02. GERMANY [GER] 18" 83. RUSSIA [RUS] 2'' 08 "04. SWEDEN [SWE] 2'' 23" 85. POLAND [POL] 2'' 47 "96. AUSTRIA [AUT] 3'' 12" 2 Among the men of France scored the gold medal'' in a decidedly sharper fielding Martin Fourcade, Simon Desthieux, Robin and Mathias Duvillard Wibault. Silver for Austria'' (Bernhard Trischer, Simon Eder, David Komatz, Sven Grossegger) to almost three minutes. At least c'' was great fight for the bronze medal went to Germany for a breath (Andreas Katz, Matthias Bischl, Bartscher Steffen, Matthias Dorfer) damages for Estonia'' s (Kalev Ermits, Kauri Koiv, Roland Lessing, Indrek Tobreluts), beaten only by 6/10! Fifth Sweden II 4 "3 WORLD MILITARY - PATROL MASCHILE1. FRANCE [FRA] 1:02'' 09 "32. AUSTRIA [AUT] 2'' 53" 63. GERMANY [GER] 4'' 22 "24. ESTONIA [EST] 4'' 22" 85. SWEDEN II [SWE] 4'' 26 "56. FINLAND II [FIN] to 5'' 49" 9

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