Venla Lehtonen, who has achieved the best performance of her career in the early part of the season, will withdraw from the World Cup starting next week due to health atmosphere.
7.2. 14: 02 • Updated 7.2. 14:57
The World Biathlon World Championships will compete from 12 to 23 June. February in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. shows the World Championships on its channels.
During the early part of the year, several illnesses suffered Venla Lehtonen You have to skip the World Biathlon World Championships because of heart inflammation. Lehtonen tells about this on his Instagram account.
– I had a lot of misfortune in January when I first became ill with stomach ailment and shortly thereafter for influenza. I was recovering from both diseases, and after all, we did detailed examinations to ensure that everything was fine before I returned to practice.
– I feel physically ok, but with illness I suffer from a slight heart inflammation that I have to recover, Lehtonen writes in his update.
Before the turn of the year, Lehtonen competed in the World Cup at his best level. In December at the Annecy World Cup, Lehtonen improved his best career in his career several times and was as much as seventh in the chase. After that, Lehtonen became ill but returned to the World Cup.
Lehtonen has also suffered from heart problems before. In February 2023, Lehtonen’s season was interrupted due to cardiac bag inflammation during the Oberhof World Cup. At that time, Lehtonen returned to training after a few months of rest.
Influenza on the national team
Most recently, Lehtonen competed in the Anterselva Quick Competition on January 23, but left the race weekend. At that time, Finnish male athletes also Tero Seppälä, Otto Invenius and Olli Hiidensalo missed the national team’s influenza epidemic.
Finnish team doctor Katja Mjøsund tells Sports that male skiers have improved from influenza and everyone has returned to training.
Athletes had received influenza vaccinations.
“Most have been completely restored and everyone is in training,” says Mjøsund.
– It is essential that athletes are healthy. Influenza is a severe disease, of course, vaccinated, but it is difficult to guess whether it affects performance.
The World Biathlon World Championships will compete from 12 to 23 June. February in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. shows the World Championships on its channels.
Jutta updated 7.2. 2:55 pm: Added comments from Katja Mjøsund and Tieto Lehtonen’s previous inflammation of myocardial bag.