Two years in the new sport.
Now Stina Nilsson is making changes for the next season.
– Has been very complicated, says coach Johannes Lukas.
Stina Nilsson shocked an entire sports world when she announced a little more than two years ago that he would stop cross-country skiing. Instead, she changed sports completely, and opted for biathlon instead.
First success
It has been two seasons that have gone up and down for Stina Nilsson. She has mixed and given, and it would be until the end of the second season before the first really big success would come.
Then Stina Nilsson finished in third place in a World Cup competition, and thus took her first podium place in the new sport.
Right now, Stina Nilsson is recharging for her third season in biathlon. In previous years, she has mainly focused on shooting, but from this year, the star will train more like a real biathlete.
– It will be more as a whole for her. Now we can have much more specific biathlon sessions that will help her even more in getting routine in fast movements on the embankment, says coach Johannes Lukas to SVT and continues:
“Been complicated…”
– It was complicated for her last year too, but we have seen that she learns things all the time and I am sure that she will be able to train more as a biathlete this year.
It has not been an easy transition for Stina Nilsson, and it has meant a number of changes for someone who has not done full-time biathlon before.
– There will be much more comb shooting. That you really have a clear plan when it comes to intervals and technique and tactics in the track. At the same time, we will get the shooter with all the pieces in a great way on the dike. It can be ten steps that happen at the same time, so for a beginner it is very much to keep track of and very complicated, says Lukas.
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