The Austrian team organized trial sprints, in which, in addition to the Austrians, the national teams of Russia, Belarus, the USA, and Bulgaria also took part.
Alexander Loginov won the men's sprint, while his teammate Karim Khalili was second. Simon Eder is only third with clean shooting.
1. Aleksandr Loginov – 24.51,6 (0+1)
2. Karim Khalili +4,9 (0+0)
3. Simon Eder +22,1 (0+0)
4. Sergey Bocharnikov +28,0 (1+0)
5. Dmitriy Lazouski+36,4 (0+1)
6. Sean Doherty +40,1 (0+0)
7. Felix Leitner +48,4 (0+1)
8. Magnus Oberhauser +56,8 (0+0)
9. Roman Eletnov +1.00,8 (3+0)
10. Maxim Varabei +1.02,3 (1+2)
The women's sprint was won by Dinara Alimbekava. And in principle, the Belarusian athletes took the first three places.
But the Austrians were not happy. In the absence of Lisa Hauser, only Julia Schweiger showed an acceptable result, the rest - far below.
- 1. Dzinara Alimbekava 22:43,9 (1+0)
- 2. Hanna Sola +20,7 (1+1)
- 3. Irina Leschenko +53,3 (0+1)
- 4. Milena Todorova +1:00,7 (0+2)
- 5. Julia Schwaiger +1:07,6 (1+0)
- 7. Clare Egan +1;20,7 (0+1)
- 9. Susan Dunklee +1:26,4 (1+0)
- 14. Karin Innerhofer +1:59,6 (0+3)
- 17. Dunya Zdouc +2:26,9 (0+2)
