The Finnish duo won the stadium event in Stockholm.
Tero Seppälä and Suvi Minkkinen celebrate in Stockholm. Archive picture. EPA / AOP
Suvi Minkkinen and Tero Seppälä Won the biathlon stadium competition in Stockholm Skidskytekkopen.
The Finnish pair of pairs defeated the Swedish pair Hanna Öberg and Martin Ponsiluoma by second. Seppälä raised the fast -paced competition to the top of Finland in the second final shooting.
From the last shooting point, Seppälä went on a short ski run with a 4.9 second distance. That was enough against Ponsiluoma’s fierce ending.
– It was a really drastic end. I couldn’t look behind me. My legs were shaking and the technology broke down, Seppälä, who was relieved, described his victory after the race.
It was an invitation to the world’s best biathlon. It is not part of the Biathlon World Cup, but there are big prize money in the race.
The duo will acknowledge SEK 160,000, or approximately EUR 16,000.
The Finnish duo finished sixth in their first round, but in the finals everything went great. The resort to only five spare cartridges reported the success of the shooting.
Minkkinen and Seppälä have also celebrated the victory of a couple cavity in the World Cup this season.