After the German women had made an outstanding start to the European Biathlon Championship on Wednesday, the further races showed that the DSV ski hunters separated a lot from the top from the top. The pursuers also underpinned this on Saturday.
For women, Lettin Baiba Bendika (33: 54.4/3 shooting errors), who won bronze in the sprint, secured the title on Saturday. Sprint European champion Anna-Karin Heijdenberg (+15.6/4 shooting errors) from Sweden landed behind it.
As the best German, European European champion Johanna Puff ended the race as ninth. The German problems already reveals that the 22-year-old was the only athlete that the winner was not a mistake, but still lost 48.8 seconds and even lost two places compared to the sprint.
Sophia Scherer also only made one mistake, but lost three ranks than 20 (+2: 11.5). Anna Weidel (+2: 21.0/2 shooting errors) did better, who was ranked 37th to 23rd place, Marion Wiestensarter (+2: 57.2/2 errors), which was started as 49th and 27th and 27th Marlene Fichtner (+3: 26.5/2 shooting errors), who could make up for 31. 16 ranks.
Julia Kink, who just slipped into the pursuer as 60th of the sprint, ended the race as 47th (+5: 18.4/5 shooting errors).
While the German shooting deposits can be seen, the performance on the route was very sobering. Weidel was the best DSV starter from the pure term, Puff, for example, landed in the back field as 47th.
Rees and emperors as a little bright spots
A little better went for the men, in whom Roman Rees (+1: 31.0/2 shooting errors) went into the race from 26th place, at least as tenth. Simon Kaiser (+1: 47.1/4 shooting errors) also knew how to convince. Emperor only took 33th place in the sprint. Lucas Fratzscher (+1: 51.6/3 shooting error), on the other hand, lost five places as 14, David Zobel (+2: 40.4/4 shooting errors) lost even 16 positions and was only 26.
The 22-year-old Franz Schaser (+2: 57.1/3 shooting errors) also lost as 30. 16 ranks.
Soothing: At least the gentlemen provided an athlete with Kaiser (fourth best duration) who could keep up in the cross -country ski run.
The otherwise dominating Norwegians were not surprising this time on the route. Norge had to be satisfied with the stands two to four . EM-Gold surprisingly won Patrick Braunhofer from Italy (34: 27.2/0 shooting errors).