Tero Seppälä was eighth in the Biathlon World Cup in the men’s co-start race.
18:15•Updated 18:15
Tero Seppälä got his best ranking of the season in the joint start competition that ended the Biathlon Men’s World Cup, when the Finn finished eighth in the foggy weather of Oslo’s Holmenkollen. Seppälä, who kept a good skiing speed in the races of the end of the season, shot two penalties, remaining at the finish line by more than a minute after taking a clear race victory Johannes Thingnes Bö.
Seppälä, 27, reached the top ten several times last season, but this season was more challenging for the Kontiolahta player. In February, Seppälä finished tenth in Oberhof’s World Cup joint start, and the pursuit race at Holmenkollen brought the same ranking.
– It was great to end this World Cup season with a good performance. Of course, the goal was to finish (in the top six), but it wasn’t quite enough. High-level competitions, when with two fines and good skiing you place eighth and tenth. Good investments and clearly better than this winter. It was important to have successes in the spring so that it brings strength to the training season. I know there are opportunities. Let’s go from here through the championships towards a new season, Seppälä commented in the announcement of the Biathlon Union.
As the second Finn who made it to the joint start Otto Invenius was 27th in the final race of the season. Invenius had a total of six missed shots from vertical positions.
Norwegian star Bö celebrated his third win of the week in front of his home crowd at Holmenkollen. Swiss Niklas Hartweg was second and won the joint start cup against Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen third.
The men’s biathlon season was one of Bö’s unfathomable superiority, as the Norwegian won 19 of the season’s 25 individual races, including the World Championships.
Women’s joint start race, Holmenkollen, 12.5 km:
1) Hanna Öberg SWE 36.33.5 (1 penalty)
2) Marte Olsbu Röiseland NOR +22.6 (1)
3) Anais Chevalier-Bouchet FRA +43.7 (3)
4) Hanna Kebinger GER +46.5 (1)
5) Julia Simon FRA +56.6 (4)
6) Denise Herrmann-Wick GER +57.1 (3)
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20) Suvi Minkkinen FIN +1.55.8 (2)
29) Mari Eder FIN 4.54,6 (7)
Final results of the World Cup (20 races):
1) Julia Simon FRA 1,093 points
2) Dorothea Wierer ITA 911
3) Lisa Vittozzi ITA 882
4) Denise Herrmann-Wick GER 874
5) Elvira Öberg SWE 764
6) Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold NOR 731
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22) Mari Eder FIN 305
27) Suvi Minkkinen FIN 228
53) Nastassia Kinnunen FIN 80
87) Venla Lehtonen FIN 1
Men’s combined start race, Holmenkollen, 15 km:
1) Johannes Thingnes Bö NOR 38.51.9 (2 fines)
2) Niklas Hartweg SUI +26.2 (0)
3) Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen NOR +35.2 (0)
4) Quentin Fillon Maillet FRA +36.8 (1)
5) Sturla Holm Lägreid NOR +40.0 (1)
6) Martin Ponsiluoma SWE +43.0 (4)
7) Tarjei Bö NOR +51.2 (2)
8) Tero Seppälä FIN +1.03.7 (2)
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27) Otto Invenius FIN +3.30.0 (6)
Final results of the World Cup (21 races):
1) Johannes Thingnes Bö NOR 1,589 points
2) Sturla Holm Lägreid NOR 1,098
3) Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen NOR 935
4) Benedikt Doll GER 782
5) Martin Ponsiluoma SWE 779
6) Tarjei Bö NOR 684
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29) Tero Seppälä FIN 229
30) Olli Hiidensalo FIN 223
41) Tuomas Harjula FIN 94
47) Otto Invenius FIN 74