Categories: Winter Sports

Biathlon: Fourcade wins pursuit – Lesser in tenth place

At the end of the World Cup in Östersund, Sweden, the German biathletes missed a top position in the 12.5 km pursuit of Dominator Martin Fourcade’s victory. After finishing third in the sprint, Erik Lesser could not use his good starting position and had to settle for tenth place.

Fourcade clinched his first win of the season, the 62nd place. in his successful career. The 29-year-old Frenchman won clearly ahead of Jakov Fak (Slovenia) and fellow countryman Quentin Fillon Maillet.

Lesser only missed his third World Cup victory by 3.7 seconds on Saturday in the sprint. Simon Schempp had finished fifth. But on Sunday, the DSV athletes made too many mistakes at the shooting range.

“We underestimated the wind a little bit and didn’t react well enough,”said national coach Mark Kirchner on ZDF. Nevertheless, the overall result of the weekend was “positive”, he added:”We showed a very good sprint and the mileage was right.

Schempp was in pursuit 16. another rank behind Arnd Peiffer. Johannes Kühn finished in 25th place, Benedikt Doll on the 26th place. Place.

Starting next Friday, the men’s second World Cup will be held in Hochfilzen (8. till 10. December) on the programme.

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