EPN experts Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Ville Kotikumpu download high expectations for Suvi Minkkinen’s chase. According to Kotikummu, Minkkinen can fight even the World Cup gold medal.
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When Suvi Minkkinen Returned Finland’s Biathlon Championships after eight years on Friday, at the Finnish team’s hotel the party was a traditional model. Tero Seppälä On Saturday, EPN revealed that in honor of the medal, a cake was eaten and once a drink.
However, Finland can be able to celebrate the second World Championship medal on Sunday. There are good opportunities for this.
Minkkinen is third in the chase based on the results of the speed race. The difference to number one in French Justine Braisaz-Bouchet’in is 10 seconds.
Franziska Prussia Going to the track in practice at the same time as Minkkinen, as Prussi crossed the finish line only 0.2 seconds faster than a Finn. There is also a Swiss in the top group Lena Häcki-Grossleft only 1.4 seconds from Minkkk.
Finnish national team coach Donald Moilanen Said Saturday that Minkkinen did a peaceful workout in the sun on the day. The moods were good.
– The smile was very wide, Moilanen said.
He welcomes the expectations of Minkkki.
– It’s a very positive thing if they have been successful. This is still the same biathlon. A good race is certainly expected, Moilanen says.
Experts high expectations
Compared to the rapid competition, the competition format changes in the chase to a good shooter like Minkkinen in a favorable direction. There are two shooting sessions in the quick race, with four shooting sessions in the chase.
Minkkinen pulled through both a mixed message and a quick race without skiing.
EPN’s biathlon expert Kaisa Mäkäräinen Expect Minkkinen will continue the World Cup even without missed shots.
-We can expect four zero shootings. He has shown this year that he can do it. Some fine does not pack, Mäkäräinen estimates.
Another EPN biathlon expert Ville Kotikumpu It keeps Minkkinen’s situation really delicious.
– If Suvi is able to maintain the same shooting skills, she will truly fight for a medal and maybe even a profit, home -based homemade charges hard to talk about expectations.
Kotikumpu believes that the top ten in the speed competition will be struggling with medals in the chase.
– Suvi got a difference in bad opponents in the quick race. In the bow, Braisaz -Bouchet is a tough skier. He fired well now, but has sometimes been shocked from the bench, Kotikumpu describes.
In the light of history, Minkkkinen also opens an interesting view of the chase in the light of history. Since 2011, athletes who have celebrated the World Championship medal in the Women’s Quick Medal have also been a tough percentage of medals in the chase: from 11 in the last eight Sprint medal trunks, two have also got the World Cup in the end.
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