Birkenthal’s Record Pursuit in Rupolding | Sportacentrs.com

In the sprint competition, the career record was achieved yesterday by Renárs Birkenthals, who won 18th place in the shooting range with one mistake, 75 seconds behind the winner Sebastian Samuelsson from Sweden. Andrejs Rastorgujev also made a mistake once in the shooting range, who took 32nd place, 19.4 seconds behind his compatriot.

Birkenthal has participated in all pursuit races this season and has started better than Rastorgujev. If in Esteshund he fell from 37th place to 55th place with six mistakes, then in the pursuit of Hochfilzen he rose from 46th place to 32nd place with four mistakes. In Annecy with four mistakes he fell from 34th place to 39th place, but in Oberhof with three mistakes he kept 32nd place.

Rastorgujev has participated in two pursuits so far – in Annecy he fell from 46th place to 47th with four mistakes, and in Oberhof with eight mistakes he slipped from 42nd place to 52nd. Rastorgujev thus does not have a single point in the pursuit yet, while Birkenthal with 20 points is 43rd in the overall standings of the pursuit. The leader of the pursuit is the leader of the grand total and the sprint runner-up Tommaso Giacomel from Italy, who won one first and one second place and accumulated 246 points. Second with 232 points is the Frenchman Eric Perrault, who has one victory.

For the first time this season, he will start in the pursuit Sanita Buliņawho in Friday’s sprint with one mistake was in 57th place, about two minutes behind the winner Hanna Eberja, and was the only Latvian in the top 60. Bulina’s record in the pursuit is 30th place in December 2023 in Esteshund. Finland’s Suvi Minkinen is the leader of the pursuit standings this season with three silvers and 253 points. Among the Latvians, Esther Wolfa is in 48th place with 18 points, while Baiba Bendika is in 62nd place with five points.

The fifth stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Rupolding