The Summer Biathlon World Championships have already begun with junior competitions. Well, tomorrow there will be adult competitions - super sprints. The IBU has slightly changed the format of the competition. Now qualifying takes place not in the sprint mode, but also in the mass start mode, so the athletes are divided into several groups.
The 6 best from each race + 6 lucky losers (athletes outside the top 6 who showed the best time), 30 in total, will promoted to the finals.
Men's qualification starts at 09:15 +25 minutes for each group
Women's qualification at 12:00, +25 minutes for each group as well.
Among the interesting athletes I would like to highlight:
- Group 1: Andreys Rastorguevs, Adam Vaclavik, Olli Hiidensalo
- Group 2: Fabien Claude, Vladimir Iliev, Vytautas Strolia
- Group 3: Jesper Nelin, Florent Claude, Anton Dudchenko
- Group 4: Emilien Claude, Michal Krcmar, Dmitryi Pidruchnyi, Otto Nivenius
A total of 76 athletes. This is an unprecedented number of biathletes at the start of the Summer World Championships. In past years there were 40-50.
Women will have such strong athletes:
- Group 1: Paulina Fialkova, Baiba Bendika, Alina Stremous
- Group 2: Tuoli Tomingas, Tereza Vobornikova, Camilla Zhuk
- Group 3: Lotte Lie, Anastasia Merkushina, Suvi Minkinnen,
- Group 4: Lucy Charvatova, Yulia Dzhima
There are 74 ladies in total.
In general, teams from Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Poland, Estonia, Finland and Kazakhstan have a large representation.
The final races will begin(CET):
- 14:45 - Men, super sprint final
- 16:00 - Women, supersprint final.
