Belarusian biathletes win second medal at Biathlon Junior World Championships

Belarusian biathletes win the second medal at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in Brezno-Osrblie, Slovakia.

Today, the Belarusian team represented by Kiryl Tsiuryn, Ilya Auseyenka and Dzmitry Lazouski, have become bronze medalists in 3х7,5 km relay. Belarusians have lost to the winning Norwegian national team (55:5.4 min) with the result of +1:41.6 min back. Russian biathletes have taken silver with 54.2 sec behind the leaders.

Anton Smolski showed a good move on the track, thus having won a bronze medal. In the 12.5 km pursuit with four shooting ranges, he missed five times falling 27.4 sec behind Russian winner Igor Malinovsky (32:39.8; 4). A silver went to Norwegian biathlete Sindre Pettersen (+13.0 sec; 5). And on Saturday, Anton Smolski stopped one step from the podium, having finished 4th in the sprint race. The Biathlon Junior World Championships finishes on February 28.

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Photo by: Alena Zubrylava

Translation by 5th year BSU student Anastasiya Litvinchuk