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Race Snapshot: WCF Pursuit
Sorry for posting these so late in the day. I had a race, then drove home, etc.
Week In Review: Friday Mar 18th
I’m on the road again for 50k number two of the season. Not looking forward to this one as much. The course doesn’t really excite me, and there are a ton of crazy fast runners here so it’ll be a miracle if the leaders haven’t flown home by the time I finish. Stupid fast people!
Anyhoo, the season’s almost done…
- We had the Lahti XC World Cup races: the pursuits and the sprints, and some brief recaps, despite a few snafus with the live timing.
- The World Biathlon Champs wrapped up with the mass start races.
- I gave a very general assessment of how the US and Canadian teams fared at World Biathlon Championships compared to the past.
- The final weekend of biathlon WC racing is under way starting with some sprints, and a recap in which I managed to put my foot in my mouth.
- Now the XC World Cup Final mini-stage race thingy is going on, starting with a classic sprint (recap) and continuing with the prologue.
IBU WC Sprint: Americans
Yesterday’s biathlon WC sprint saw a mix of results for the Americans. First, things seem to have sort of reversed themselves from early in the season with Laura Spector struggling and the other ladies skiing quite well:
An excellent race from Haley Johnson and Sara Studebaker, but a pretty dismal one for Spector, who shot rather poorly. From the looks of things, shooting should for sure be a priority for these ladies going into next season.
Tim Burke almost had a great race yesterday, but with two misses it ended up being just pretty good: Continue reading ›
Tagged americans, biathlon, men, recap, Sprint, women, World CupRace Snapshot: WCF Prologue
Sigh. Prologues. They count for FIS points. They count for World Cup points. And yet, somehow, I just don’t really care that much about them. Still, a race is a race, so here are the requisite snapshots:
Neuner Does It Again
As far as I can tell, Magdalena Neuner leads all currently active female biathletes in victories in major international races. Granted, she’s been racing longer than many of the current top women, but still. (Update: As pointed out to me in the comments, that isn’t exactly the case. All I meant to say was that I hadn’t adjusted the counts for number of races or number of seasons. My bad.)Â By my count, Neuner has 25 24Â wins, Andrea Henkel has 20 and then you have to go to Helena Ekholm with only 13 wins. And check out her standing shooting in the following graph:
Yikes. She really doesn’t shoot well standing, although it’s dramatically improved over the last several years. Can you imagine what sort of crazy, Frankenstein-ish super biathlete you’d get if you could combine Neuner’s skiing with Helena Ekholm’s shooting?
In any case, this race seemed fairly close, all things considered, in that the field wasn’t too spread out. How about the top few men: Continue reading ›
Tagged alexander wolf, andreas birnbacher, biathlon, björn ferry, helena ekholm, magdalena neuner, men, recap, Sprint, women, World CupRace Snapshot: IBU World Cup Sprint
Great races from Sara Studebaker and Haley Johnson today. A decent race from Tim Burke, probably undone by those two missing last time through the range. You’ll note that Tarjei Bø was back in 44th with 5 missed shots; that’s biathlon for you!
Tagged biathlon, men, race snapshot, Sprint, women, World Cup