The Russians “recouped” for the failure of male biathletes by winning “silver” in the relay

The Russian team in the women’s 4×6 km biathlon relay took second place, which was a kind of sensational compensation for the “bronze failure” of the men the day before. The first place was taken by the Swedish team, the Germans – the third.

Irina Kazakevich played for Russia at the first stage. At the first turn, she made one mistake, at the second – another one, arriving in the seventh gear, 17 seconds behind the leader.

Kristina Reztsova, despite a miss in prone, left for the second round in fourth place. Everything turned out great for Christina on the stand, and she ran right behind the Italian Dorothea Wierer. I must say that the leaders were lucky here, because the wind died down for some seconds, but their pursuers ran into a gust, and, in particular, a very strong Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff went two laps.

As a result, Reztsova brought Dorothea 10.7 seconds, and it was with such a handicap that Svetlana Mironova left for the third stage. She passed the first line without a penalty, alas, Svetlana had to run an extra 150 meters on the “rack”.

As a result, she passed the baton to Uliana Nigmatullina in 13 seconds after the Swede and in seven seconds after the Italian. The Germans pulled up – they were losing 24 seconds to ours. Denise Hermann caught up with this duet by the first shooting, but once missed, and on the second round Ulyana was the vice-leader, having a small lead over her and the Italian. Nigmatullina used six rounds at the final shooting and went to the finish line with a gap of 24 seconds that could not be regained, in turn ahead of the German woman by 10.