Sweden’s Hanna Öberg won the women’s combined start competition on the last day of the Biathlon World Championships. The Swede kept a wild pace on the ski track and was convincing on the vertical shooting positions.
Swedish Hanna Öberg became the world champion of the final leg of the Biathlon World Championships thanks to a brilliant last shot. Öberg fired five shots at a ferocious pace with no misses.
Öberg, who had already won the normal distance world championship, managed to fight to the end of the last ski round without a major clot, and Norway’s Ingrid Landmark Tandervold or France Julia Simon caught the woman.
– She was a thoughtful woman, kept herself in charge all the time, Urheilu’s expert Ville Kotikumpu atmosphere after the competition.
Anais Chevalier-Bouchet and Simon arrived in the last vertical position at the head of the race, but one missed shot by both of them watered down the country’s double victory. Like Öberg, Tandervold tapped a sure zero shooting.
Öberg and Tandervold skied the last lap in the same time. Tandervold eventually took silver and lost to the winner by just under five seconds. Simon, who lost to the winner by more than 12 seconds in the last ski run, was 20 seconds behind Öberg for the bronze.
Öberg shot both vertical positions without misses, and she was the fastest woman on the ski track in the entire competition. Bronze medalist Simon lost to the Swede by less than a second in ski speed.
The gold medal was Sweden’s second of the day. The men won the corresponding distance earlier today Sebastian Samuelsson.
Finland Suvi Minkkinen was the 25th The Finn shot the first vertical shot without misses, the other places got one penalty round each.
– It was a tough race. It’s sad that the shot missed the first berth. It was a clear mistake of my own that I knew. That’s where I was a bit left out of the crowd. If it had hit, I probably would have been able to ski the second round well in the peese, Minkkinen analyzed after the competition.