Junior World Championships: Michela Carrara sprints to gold

By Luis Mahlknecht from Osrblie

The young athlete from Courmayeur showed high speed in the first few meters, especially since the wax technicians had once again done an excellent job. At the shooting range, Michela Carrara once again showed the enormous progress she has made thanks to the work of the coaching staff (especially Michela Ponza), hitting all the targets both times and racing towards victory. At the finish, she was 15,2 seconds ahead of the Norwegian Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, who had to go through the penalty loop once. Bronze went to France's Myrtllle Begue, who also made no mistakes. The sprint competition was more modest for the other two “Azzurre” in the race, who made too many mistakes in the prone position. Ginevra Rocchia finished 49th, Rachele Fanesi finished the race in 55th place.

Russia dominates the men's sprint

The junior sprint in Osrblie (Slovakia) speaks Russian: gold and silver went to athletes from the largest country in the world, bronze went to an athlete from Kazakhstan, which is also home to the Russian language.

Precise shooting was the key to success in difficult conditions (everything from light snow flurries to sunshine) and the two Russians hit all ten targets in the sprint competition with precision. In the end, Igor Malinowskii, who comes from Kamchatka, won with a 12,2 second lead over his countryman Kirill Streltsov. With two errors in his “rucksack”, Roman Yeremin from Kazakhstan was 24,9 seconds behind and thus secured third place.

The four athletes from the Italian team did not cope well on the shooting range and played no role in the fight for the top spot. At least the quartet was able to qualify as a unit for the pursuer tomorrow, Sunday. Their placings were as follows: Paolo Rodigari 24th, Luca Ghiglione 32nd, Daniele Cappellari 37th, Michael Durand 42nd.

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Junior World Championships: Michela Carrara sprints to gold

Italy's biathlon women are currently causing a real stir in Osrblie (Slovakia). After the sprint success of Irene Lardschneider from Val Gardena in the youth competition, Michela Carrara secured another gold medal for Alex Inderst's team on Saturday.

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