Pryma Artem and Yulia Zhuravok. Photo: biathlon.com.ua

At the third IBU Cup in Austria Obertilliach pryma Artem and Yuliya Zhuravok took third place in sprint mixed relay.

Despite the fact that the men’s team of Ukraine played with the core team in General for our team, he still was a failure. All athletes, as if by agreement, undertook to compete with each other in the number of misses on the shooting range, sometimes reaching a very sad “records”.

And if these “records” performed by Yana Bondar already feel, why inherit it took all the rest is a big mystery. Therefore, even bronze, obtained in a single mixed event, were, so to speak, not because of, but in spite of…

However, here Yulia Zhuravok there can be no complaints – it is both his stage worked perfectly, finally, and showing impeccable shooting. But Brendan barely screwed it up. On first standing, he earned a penalty and the second was very close to repeating four misses.

Fortunately, was limited to three, which helped to keep the odds on a pedestal. And, ahead in the final metres of the canadian Carson Campbell, prima still managed to finish third.

However, that is little consolation when you consider that, in General, negative issues to the current state of readiness of some Ukrainian athletes is enough.

Sergey DATSENKO, Sport-Express in Ukraine

OBERTILLIACH (Austria). The IBU Cup. The 3rd stage. 16 Dec. Men. Sprint. 10 km. 1. Malyshko – 24.44,1 (0+1). 2. Latypov (both – Russia) – 9,2 (0+0). 3. E. Jaclin (France) – 30,4 (0+1)… 6. PIDRUCHNY – 34,0 (0+2). 7. PRIMA – 44,0 (0+1)… 22. SEMENOV – 1.11,0 (1+0)… 35. TRUSH – 1.37,8 (0+1)… 47. LESYUK (Ukraine) – 2.01,8 (0+2).

GC. 1. Christiansen – 258. 2. Nancier – 195. 3. Yesback (all – Norway) – 183… 28. TISHCHENKO – 72… 40. SEMAKOV – 48… 48. PIDRUCHNY – 38… 50. PRIMA – 36… 68. LESYUK – 20. 69. TRUSH – 19. 70. SEMENOV – 19…. 79. MIGD – 16… 82. DUDCHENKO – 14… 84. IVKO – 11. 85. DOTSENKO (Ukraine) – 10.

Women. Sprint. 7.5 km away. 1. K. Horchler (Germany) – 21.38,5 (0+0). 2. Simon (France) – 6,6 (1+0). 3. Kaisheva (Russia) – 14,3 (0+0)… 14. ZHURAVOK – 55,3 (1+0)… 27. BELKIN – 1.14,9 (1+1)… 30. ABRAMOVA – 1.33,2 (1+1)… 40. COOPER – 1.55,7 (2+2). 41. PANFILOVA – 2.09,5 (0+2)… 70. KRUTOVA (Ukraine) – 3.19,7 (1+1).

GC. 1. Kaisheva – 284. 2. Khogberg (Sweden) Is 182. 3. K. Horchler – 181… 5. ZHURAVOK – 171… 10. ABRAMOVA – 147… 28. PANFILOVA – 75… 38. COOPER – 58. 39. BELKIN – 54… 50. MERKUSHINA – 31…85. KROKOWA (all – Ukraine) – 2.

17 Dec. Sprint mixed relay. 1. Russia (Reztsova, Wolves) – 39.07,2 (0+5). 2. France (Simon, Jaklen) – 37,1 (0+6). 3. UKRAINE (Zhuravok, prima) – 48,9 (1+7). 4. Canada – 51,0 (0+6). 5. Norway – 57,8 (0+7). 6. Czech Republic – 1.39,7 (0+10).

The mixed relay. 1. Norway (Kallenberg, Knotted, Christiansen, Jerangau) – 1:10.44,9 (0+7). 2. Germany (N.Horchler, K Horchler, Zobel, Rees) – 32,4 (0+6). 3. France (Varcin, M., Bogu, Dumont, A., Bogu) – 1.09,7 (0+6). 4. Switzerland – 1.24,5 (0+12). 5. Sweden – 1.41,8 (0+8). 6. Russia – 1.52,9 (3+9)… 10. UKRAINE (Abramova, Belkin, Semakov, Pidruchny) – 2.53,9 (2+12).

The Nations Cup. Men. 1. France – 3162. 2. Russia – 3119. 3. Norway – 3004… 5. UKRAINE – 2545.

Women. 1. Russia – 3173. 2. Germany – 2908. 3. France – 2800… 6. UKRAINE – 2683.