Yana Romanova and Alexey Volkov won the first Single Mixed history

A Nove Mesto na Morave the first "Single Mixed" official history of the biathlon is won by the Russian pair formed by Yana Romanova and Alexey Volkov.

Friday 6 February 2015 4 minutes reading time

Russia & egrave; always remained in the top positions and took advantage of the best of a resounding blunder top-polygon Erik Lesser. The German arrived with a margin of more than 20 "on his pursuers direct & egrave; stumbled upon a shooting session disastrous after which he had to go three rounds of penalty payment agrave ;. Germany, where in addition to Lesser has also competed Luise Kummer , after flirting with success & egrave; even finished off the podium finishing in fourth place. Piazza d''honor for Norway formed by Mars and Henrik Olsbu The' Abee-Lund, managed to spear an unexpected podium in the final meters surpassing even the 'Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma and Artem Tyschchenko. Distant all other nations as France, fifth, & egrave; reached almost 2 minutes from Russia. Absent the 'Italy. As seen today, the Single Mixed appears a real shooting competition "masquerade", since & eacute; the polygon seems predominant over the ground. Also, if the 'Ibu was planning to create a race where "15 nations can fight for the podium," exact words of President Besseberg, the' objective can & ograve; be said to be completely missed because the gaps were very high. Moreover, the international federation had motivated the 'introduction of this format stating that he should reward the' excellence and encourage nations can express only a high-level athlete. Actually & agrave; very few countries have been presented with the pair type, preferring to & nbsp; deploy their numbers 3 or 4. In short, the Single Mixed & ograve can not; be promoted, but is "postponed until September." Serve other experiments to see if this format potr & agrave; have a future or if the first impression, or that it is only suitable for the performances, will prove & agrave; the correct one. NOVE MESTO - SINGLE MIXED 1. RUSSIA [RUS] (0 + 5) 35''43 "32. NORWAY [NOR] (0 + 3) in 21" 53. UKRAINE [UKR] (0 + 8) 24 "64. GERMANY [GER] (3 + 6) in 38" 95. FRANCE [FRA] (0 + 15) to 1''57 "86. SWEDEN [SWE] (1 + 16) in 1''57" 97. BELARUS [BLR] (0 + 14) to 2''19 "08. BULGARIA [BUL] (2 + 13) to 2''32" 79. UNITED STATES [USA] (0 + 13) to 2''39 "710. JAPAN [JPN] (2 + 15) to 2''41" 5 Click here for complete results. In the next hours will disputer & agrave; a medley relay, while tomorrow happening the sprint. The women will compete at 12:30, men at 15:30.

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