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The Italian Liza Vitozzi won, improving her hopes of fighting for the first place in the season standings. French biathlete Lou Jeanmont was 5.5 seconds behind, while Switzerland’s Lena Hecki-Gross completed the top three 8.6 seconds behind the winner. All three athletes who met on the podium shot without mistakes.
Bendika hit all the targets lying down in the first shooting and kept the chances of a high place. However, in standing shooting, the last three bullets missed the target, preventing them from staying in the leader group.
Baiba Bendika’s second shooting
Women’s World Cup biathlon sprint. Baibas Bendika’s second shooting1min
Two more Latvian biathletes, Sanita Buliņa and Annija Keita Sabule, took 83rd and 91st place, respectively, in the competition of 94 participants. Neither Buliņa nor Sabule qualified for the chase, where the fastest 60 will start according to the sprint results.
Bendika finished two minutes and 11.5 seconds behind the winner. Ranking behind the TOP40, Baiba did not add a point in the stock ranking.
Buliņa earned three penalty rounds already in the first shooting range while lying down, but in the second firing line she closed all the targets while standing. For Sabule, the only two intact targets remained lying down after firing.
Before the last two races of the season, the Norwegian Ingrida Lanmarka Tandrevold, who took 17th place in the sprint, kept the lead in the World Cup standings.
but her lead over Vitoci dwindled to seven points. Tandrevold, however, secured victory in the World Cup overall in the sprint competition.
90 points are awarded for the victory in each competition, while other female athletes who finished in the TOP40 are awarded proportionally less.
After the birth of her baby, Bendika, who started for less than a season, ranks immediately behind the sixth tenth in the overall standings, while Buliņa takes the 77th place.
In the continuation of the stage, men will compete in a sprint on Friday in Kenmore, on Saturday both men and women will start in the pursuit, and on Sunday – in distances with a joint start.
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