Biathlon

KRASNOYARSK — The new biathlon competition course created for the upcoming Winter Universiade 2019 is ready for the fourth stage of the Russian Cup. With competitions used as qualifiers for Krasnoyarsk 2019, 150 athletes from 15 regions of Russia are on the start list to take pace in four disciplines — sprint, individual, mixed relay […]

Russian and Kazakh relay OSRBLIE – Russia continues its harvest of medals in biathlon. Indeed, the mixed relay (men’s 2×7.5km & women’s 2x6km) was held on 30 January, 2015 in the National Biathlon Centre in Osrblie and the race was exciting until the end. The Russian team, which started as the favourite, was composed of […]

OSRBLIE – At least one gold medal will not leave Slovakia. Indeed, after a sensational race, Slovak biathlete Paulina Fialkova took first place in the 7.5km race in front of a home crowd. “I felt tremendously emotional when passing the finish line. Winning the gold medal in front of my fans, and many people I […]

  OSRBLIE – The president of the International Biathlon Union, Anders Besseberg, made a visit to Slovakia in the last week of November. The Norwegian picked the right time to visit Osrblie since the national biathlon centre is receiving the finishing touches with a new multifunctional building getting ready for the upcoming Winter Universiade, which […]

    LAUSANNE – As per the mandate of the FISU Executive Committee, the FISU Steering Committee approved to move the Nordic Skiing and Biathlon events of the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada (ESP) to Strbske Pleso and Osrblie (SVK). This decision has been taken to anticipate the difficulties faced by the Granada 2015 Organising […]