The athletes who celebrated the women’s World Championship Sprint have also been a tough percentage of medals in chase. Suvi Minkkkinen has a seam at the jackpot at the race, writes Atte Husu.
Atte Husurahutan
Zero shooting.
It has been a rare treat for Finnish women in the sprint of the World Biathlon World Championships, which has been competing at the World Cup since 1984, now 33 times. Before Minkkk, only five Finnish women had been able to shoot all ten boards in the quick race – and with very varied success as to the final results of the race.
In addition to Minkkinen’s Friday World Championship bronze only Kaisa Mäkäräinen Zero shooting had been enough for the medal, silver, at the 2011 World Cup. Other Finnish zero shooters Annukka Malt reached 15th in the 1997 World Championship print list, while Erika The skiing speed was not enough in 2021 with complete shooting, even for chase (61).
The guarantee of Minkkinen’s World Championship bronze is specifically in the skiing rate, as he has been a hell of a shot in the noble of his sport for several seasons.
If Minkkinen kept skiing at last season’s best speed race at 46, the fastest pace, this season he has been twice in the sprint among the 15 fastest athletes and at best 12th. The first personal start of the Lenzerhe World Championships became the second hardest score in Sprint’s skiing, 14th place.
A staggering view of the chase
The medal in the sprint opens Minkkkinen’s tremendous view of his next World Championship start. It is a chase competing on Sunday, which will start based on sprint results.
Athletes who have celebrated the World Sprint in 2011 in the women’s sprint have also been a tough percentage of medals in the chase: from 11 last eight in eight sprint medal trunks have also got a World Cup in their neck.
Seam for jackpot
Minkkkinen now has a seam to make Finnish biathlon history in Lenzerheide.
As the only Finnish woman, Kaisa Mäkäräinen has been able to achieve two personal medals in the World Cup. This happened in Hanty-Mansijsk in 2011, when Mäkäräinen was in silver in a quick race and won gold in the chase.
In a body Juhani Suutarinen He was able to celebrate two spirit-specific World Championship medals, both gold, in 1974. Erkki Antila In turn, he achieved a personal double, silver and bronze, at the 1981 World Cup.
Minkkkinen has three more seams left in the Lenzerheide, alongside Mäkäräinen, Suutarinen and Antila, and in each of the remaining personal competition forms (chase, normal journey and joint departure) athletes shoot four times. It plays the best shooters on the tour, such as Minkkinen.
When included in the LenzerHe World Championships, the mixed message that opened, Minkkinen has shot purely in both starts as the only woman. The accumulation of a medal account would no longer be the miracle of any kingdom.