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Junior World Champs: Otepaa 2018!

Freezing! That was the exact temperature in Otepaa, Estonia for the first race in the Junior World Championships. After a bit of rescheduling the Relays were the first races on Tuesday.

The women’s 3x6km relay went to the French team of Camille Bened, Myrtille Begue and and Lou Jeanmonnot Laurent. The did 1 penalty loop but beat the Norwegian team to gold. Une Tronerod, Emilie Kalkenberg and Kjersti Dengerud incurred 2 penalty loops on their way to the silver medal. The bronze went to the Russian team of Polina Shevnina, Emma Timerbulatova and Valeriia Vasnetkova who also went around the penalty loop twice.

The men’s 4×7.5km relay was won by a strong Russian team of Said Khalili, Vasilii Tomshin, Viacheslav Maleev and Igor Malinovskii. They used just 9 spares beating Norway by 57 seconds. The team of Sivert Bakken, Johannes Dale, Endre Stroemsheim and Sturla Laegreid won silver despite 3 penalty loops. The bronze went to the French team of Hugo Rivail, Emilien Claude, Morgan Lamure and Martin Perrillat Bottonet who did 2 penalty loops.

The second race for the Juniors was the Individual. It was slightly warmer at -10 degrees!! There were also wind gusts in the range. The women’s race went to Poland with Kamila Zuk winning the gold medal. She won by a massive 3 minutes hitting 18/20. The silver medal went to Anna Kryvonos from the Ukraine also with 2 misses. The bronze medal went to Russia’s Irina Kazakevich who hit 17/20.

The men’s race was won by Igor Malinovskii who hit 17/20 and finished 19 seconds ahead of Norway’s Sturla Laegreid who had the same shooting score. The bronze medal also went to Russia with Said Khalili hitting 18/20.

The Sprint races were held on Saturday and Kamila Zuk made it a golden double for herself and Poland. She hit 9/10 and won the race by 26 seconds. The silver medal went to Marketa Davidova from the Czech Republic with 8/10 hits and the bronze went to France with Myrtille Begue who hit the perfect 10/10.

The men’s race was won by Russia but this time it was Vasilii Tomshin who took gold hitting 10/10 to take a 20 second lead into the Pursuit. The silver medal went to Frenchman Martin Perrillat Bottonet who missed 1 target and Norway’s Sverre Aspenes grabbed the bronze despite missing 2 targets.

The pursuits were held on Sunday and this time Marketa Davidova took the gold medal. She hit 16/20 but it was enough to pass Kamila Zuk who had to settle for silver this time with 6 misses. Myrtille Begue missed 3 shots but maintained her third place finish to take another bronze medal.

In the men’s race Sverre Aspenes moved up from third to take the gold medal hitting the perfect 20/20. Martin Perrillat Bottonet stayed in second to get another silver medal hitting 19/20. The bronze also went to Norway with Johannes Dale moving from 5th to 3rd despite missing 4 targets.

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