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30/03/2005
Our site was removed to the new hosting. Our new adress biathlonlife.ru. We`ll have a break till November and all this time we`ll work at the reconstuction of this site. All existed stores will saved and improved and we are going to add a lot of new and interesting information.
Best regards, Ali
New on the site: chat summary with Andrea Henkel from biathlonworld.com. Read.
New article about the season recap on the "Point of view" store.
25/03/2005
On Friday Lars Berger visited us for a chat. The 25 year old funny guy from Levanger has established himself in the Norwegian team. Read.
20/03/2005
At the end of the season Russian biathletes presented a great perfomance for their fans. Two top stages of the podium were occupied by Russians. The first team included Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Ishmuratova, Ivan Tcherezov and Nikolai Krouglov after increadible last two stages won the gold WCH medal. The second Russian team (Bogali, Zaitseva, Tchepikov, Rozhkov) took silver with 7 seconds gap. German team ranked third after strong perfomance of Ricco Gross (+43sec.).
Our site contimue to publish chat summaries with biathletes from biathlonworld.com. Today - the summary of talk with the best American female biathlete Rachel Steer. Read
19/03/2005.
Olga Zaitseva (RUS) won the season ending 12.5 km Mass Start in Khanty-Mansiysk. She profited from solid and fast shooting today (one error), defeating German Kati Wilhelm (two errors) by 16.6 seconds. Russians Anna Bogaliy and Svetlana Ishmouratova in positions three and four completed the great result of the Russian team.
Raphael Poiree (FRA) finally won another race, his third of the
season, in the season ending Mass Start in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the
absence of Sven Fischer, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (NOR) won the overall
World Cup title, earning just enough points to pass the German with
his second rank today (two errors, 14.5 seconds behind). Russian
Sergei Rozhkov ranked third, 44.8 seconds back (one error).
(biathlonworld.com)
Sprint and pursuit races took part in Kontiolahti at the Junior and
Youth World championship. Darya Damrachova from Belarus won both
Youth women races, while Anders Bratli was the best among men. Youth
pursuit podium was totally Norwegian.
In Junior competitions Emil Svendsen repeated his individual succes
and defeated Simone Fourcade from France. In pursuit they changed
they places. German Magdalena Neuner won sprint gold, but she
finished only second in pursuit after Russian Anna Boulygina, who
was second after sprint.
18/03/2005
German Kati Wilhelm improved from eighth rank at the start to score her third win of the season today. Just one error at the shooting range and great skiing in the incredibly cold Khanty-Mansiysk put Wilhelm ahead of France's Sandrine Bailly, who finished second (two errors, +19.0). Bailly, in turn, went ahead of Russian Olga Pyleva in the World Cup Total Score with just one race left to go. Pyleva's team mate Olga Zaitseva finished third, 22.1 seconds behind Wilhelm, missing two targets.
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (NOR) won the penultimate race of the season to close the gap behind his friend Sven Fischer (GER) in the World Cup Total Score. Bjoerndalen passed Andriy Deryzemlya (UKR) on the final lap to achieve his twelfth victory of the season. He had a total of four errors and finished just 3.9 seconds ahead of the Ukrainian (two errors). Tomasz Sikora (POL) improved from ninth rank at the start to finish third, just ahead of Fischer. (biathlonworld.com)
17/03/2005
Sven Fischer had to wait a long time today until he was sure of his fifth victory of the season. He shot clean in both sessions and recorded a total time of 26:53.3 minutes. Belarusian Oleg Ryzhenkov surprised with second rank ahead of Norwegian Halvard Hanevold. Both hit all ten of their targets in turn and were 21.9 and 28.3 seconds back, respectively.
German Katrin Apel followed her team mate Sven Fischer onto the top of the podium, winning the Women 7.5 km Sprint. Shooting flawlessly, she defeated Russian Svetlana Ishmouratova and Simone Denkinger (GER) for her first victory of the season. Ishmouratova also shot clean and was 17.3 seconds back, Denkinger completed her run just 24.0 seconds slower than Apel despite a penalty. (biathlonworld.com)
16/03/2005
In Finnish Kontiolahti World Youth and junior championship started with individual races. Russians dominated in youth race, which Victor Vasilyev and Svetlana Sleptsova won. German Anne Preussler won junior women race as well as Emil Svendsen from Norway won men's. He defeated Ondrej Moravec, who has experience in senior competitions this season.
13/03/2005
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen stayed cool in an incredibly exciting final shooting session, where he hit all five targets, and eventually cruised to his fourth gold medal in Hochfilzen. He had collected three penalties in the first sessions but repeatedly caught up with the athletes ahead of him on laps two and four. German Sven Fischer put in an incredible final lap and blew past Frenchman Raphael Poiree to win the silver, his third medal of the World Championships. He missed a total of three targets and crossed the finishing line 11.9 seconds after the Norwegian. Poiree had just two penalties and was 20.6 seconds behind Bjoerndalen at the end.
After a dramatic final shooting session and a great fight for the podium spots on the last lap, Norwegian Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen took the gold. She had three of her four errors today in the final standing shoot but just barely managed to stay ahead of Sweden's Anna Carin Olofsson and Russian Olga Pyleva, who won the silver and bronze medals. Olofsson and Pyleva each had three errors and were 3.7 and 8.4 seconds behind, respectively. (biathlonworld.com)
12/03/2005
The head coach of the Russian national team answered fans questions on Monday on biathlonworld.com chat. Read.
The Austrian relay squad won the first medal for the host of the Biathlon World Championships, finishing 43.3 seconds behind the winning Norwegians after missing a total of just four targets at the shooting range. Russia had one miss more but had quicker legs today to win the silver (+26.0). The Norwegian team, consisting of Halvard Hanevold, Stian Eckhoff, Egil Gjelland and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, had seven errors but prevailed thanks to incredibly strong running performances. It was the first Norwegian World Championship title in the men's relay since 1967. (biathlonworld.com)
11/03/2005
The Russian squad lived up to the expectation and won the Women 4x6 km relay at the biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen. Olga Pyleva, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Anna Bogaliy and Olga Zaitseva combined for just seven shooting errors to take the gold. The team from Germany overcame a huge deficit that had been brought upon them by Uschi Disl on the first leg and won the silver medal. They were 41.4 seconds behind Russia at the end (13 errors, one penalty). Belarus finished third after a strong final leg effort by Olena Zubrilova (+53.2 seconds, ten errors, one penalty). (biathlonworld.com)
Olga Zaitseva answered fan's questions in chat at biathlonworld.com. Read.
09/03/2005
34 year old Roman Dostal (CZE) won the first race of his career today – and is the sensational new World Champion in the 20km Individual. He proved that his early starting number was not a disadvantage today and stormed across the finish line in the total time of 1:00:24.5 hours. Dostal had just one error and was 9.4 seconds faster than German Michael Greis, who confirmed his strong sixth and fifth ranks from the weekend with a silver medal performance, shooting perfectly. His team mate Ricco Gross again proved that he is a true master when it comes to big events returning to the podium for the second time this season and winning his tenth World Championship medal in single races (apart from six in the Relay). (biathlonworld.com)
08/03/2005
Two very unexpected names top the result list of the Women 15 km Individual: German Andrea Henkel wins the Gold medal and repeats her sensational result from the 2002 Winter Olympics. Her better shooting (one error) kept her ahead of China's Ribo Sun (30.2 seconds behind), who even more sensationally won the Silver, the second medal for her team. Sun had two errors and nevertheless defeated Norwegian Linda Tjoerhom (+ 34.3, one error), who won the bronze. (biathlonworld.com)
mixed relay
| 1 | RUSSIA I | RUS | 0+5 0+4 | 0+9 | 1:13:24.2 |
| PYLEVA Olga | 0+1 0+2 | 0+3 | |||
| ISHMOURATOVA Svetlana | 0+2 0+0 | 0+2 | |||
| TCHEREZOV Ivan | 0+1 0+0 | 0+1 | |||
| KRUGLOV Nikolay | 0+1 0+2 | 0+3 | |||
| 2 | RUSSIA II | RUS | 1+4 0+3 | 1+7 | +7.3 |
| BOGALIY Anna | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| ZAITSEVA Olga | 1+3 0+0 | 1+3 | |||
| TCHEPIKOV Sergei | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| ROZHKOV Sergei | 0+1 0+3 | 0+4 | |||
| 3 | GERMANY I | GER | 1+5 0+10 | 1+15 | +34.2 |
| DISL Uschi | 1+3 0+3 | 1+6 | |||
| WILHELM Kati | 0+1 0+2 | 0+3 | |||
| GREIS Michael | 0+1 0+2 | 0+3 | |||
| GROSS Ricco | 0+0 0+3 | 0+3 | |||
| 4 | CZECH REPUBLIC | CZE | 0+2 1+4 | 1+6 | +36.0 |
| HOLUBCOVA Katerina | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| CESNEKOVA Irena | 0+0 0+1 | 0+1 | |||
| DOSTAL Roman | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| SLESINGR Michal | 0+2 1+3 | 1+5 | |||
| 5 | FRANCE II | FRA | 0+5 0+4 | 0+9 | +45.9 |
| PERETTO Delphyne | 0+1 0+0 | 0+1 | |||
| MIGNEREY Anne-Laure | 0+1 0+1 | 0+2 | |||
| ROBERT Julien | 0+0 0+3 | 0+3 | |||
| CANNARD Ferreol | 0+3 0+0 | 0+3 | |||
| 6 | FRANCE I | FRA | 1+3 0+6 | 1+9 | +1:07.9 |
| BAILLY Sandrine | 0+0 0+2 | 0+2 | |||
| BAVEREL-ROBERT Florence | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| DEFRASNE Vincent | 1+3 0+3 | 1+6 | |||
| POIREE Raphael | 0+0 0+1 | 0+1 | |||
| 7 | UKRAINE | UKR | 0+5 0+7 | 0+12 | +1:10.1 |
| KHVOSTENKO Oksana | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| LEMESH Nina | 0+2 0+3 | 0+5 | |||
| DERYZEMLYA Andriy | 0+1 0+3 | 0+4 | |||
| DERKACH Vyacheslav | 0+2 0+1 | 0+3 | |||
| 8 | POLAND | POL | 0+5 0+4 | 0+9 | +1:23.0 |
| PALKA Krystyna | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| GWIZDON Magdalena | 0+1 0+3 | 0+4 | |||
| ZIEMIANIN Wieslaw | 0+1 0+0 | 0+1 | |||
| SIKORA Tomasz | 0+3 0+1 | 0+4 | |||
| 9 | SLOVENIA I | SLO | 0+3 2+7 | 2+10 | +2:49.0 |
| GREGORIN Teja | 0+0 0+3 | 0+3 | |||
| BRANKOVIC Tadeja | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| OZBOLT Janez | 0+1 0+1 | 0+2 | |||
| MARIC Janez | 0+2 2+3 | 2+5 | |||
| 10 | NORWAY | NOR | 0+4 3+8 | 3+12 | +3:12.0 |
| BERGER Tora | 0+3 0+2 | 0+5 | |||
| EIKELAND Liv Kjersti | 0+0 2+3 | 2+3 | |||
| HANEVOLD Halvard | 0+0 0+0 | 0+0 | |||
| ECKHOFF Stian | 0+1 1+3 | 1+4 |
Schedule of season 2004/05.
1 leg. Beitostolen (Norway)
2.12.2004 sprint 7,5km (w), 10km (m)
4.12.2004 pursuit 10km (w), 12,5êì (m)
5.12.2004 relay 4×6km (w), 4×7,5km (m)
2 leg. Holmenkolen (Norway)
9.12.2004 individual 15km (w), 20km (m)
10.12.2004 sprint 7,5km (w)
11.12.2004 sprint 10km (m)
12.12.2004 pursuit 10km (w), 12,5km (m)
3 leg. Ostersund (Sweden)
15.12.2004 sprint 10km (m)
16.12.2004 ñïðèíò 7,5km (m)
17.12.2004 pursuit 12,5km (m)
18.12.2004 pursuit 10km (w)
19.12.2004 mass-start 15km (m), 12,5km (w)
4 leg. Oberhof (Germany)
5.01.2005 relay 4×7,5km (m)
6.01.2005 relay 4×6km (w)
7.01.2005 sprint 10km (m)
8.01.2005 sprint 7,5km (w)
9.01.2005 pursuit 12,5km (m), 10km (w)
5 leg. Ruhpolding (Germany)
12.01.2005 relay 4×6km (w)
13.01.2005 relay 4×7,5km (m)
14.01.2005 sprint 7,5km (w)
15.01.2005 sprint 10km (m)
16.01.2005 pursuit 10km (w), 12,5km (m)
6 leg. Antholz (Italy)
19.01.2005 individual 20km (m)
20.01.2005 individual 15km (w)
21.01.2005 sprint 10km (m)
22.01.2005 sprint 7,5km (w)
23.01.2005 pursuit 12,5km (m), 10km (w)
7 leg. Torino (Italy)
9.02.2005 individual 20km (m)
10.02.2005 individual 15km (w)
11.02.2005 sprint 7,5km (w)
12.02.2005 sprint 10km (m)
13.02.2005 relay 4×6km (w), 4×7,5km (m)
8 leg. Pokljuka (Slovenia)
16.02.2005 sprint 10km (m)
17.02.2005 sprint 7,5km (w)
18.02.2005 pursuit 12,5km (m)
19.02.2005 pursuit 10km (w)
20.02.2005 mass-start 15km (m), 12,5km (w)
World championship. Hochfilzen (Austria)
5.03.2005 sprint 10km (m), 7,5km (w)
6.03.2005 pursuit 12,5km (m), 10km (w)
8.03.2005 individual 15km (w)
9.03.2005 individual 20km (m)
11.03.2005 relay 4×6km (w)
12.03.2005 realy 4×7,5km (w)
13.03.2005 mass-start 12,5km (w), 15km (m)
9 leg. Khanty-Mansiisk (Russia)
16.03.2005 sprint 10km (m), 7,5km (w)
17.03.2005 pursuit 12,5km (m)
17.03.2005 pursuit 10km (w)
19.03.2005 mass-start 15km (m), 12,5km (w)
20.03.2005 mixed relay (World championship)
