Olga proudly shows her medals together with husband Milan and son Alexander BRUSSELS – Biathlon athlete Olga Zaytseva was voted the ‘Best Russian Athlete of 2011’. The voting was conducted by the TV Channel Rossiya-2 together with the internet portal sportbox.ru. Twelve athletes were in the running for the title of the best athlete of […]
Kaisa Mäkäräinen BRUSSELS – Finnish biathlete and former Winter Universiade participant Kaisa Mäkäräinen left her mark at the current IBU World Championship in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Mäkäräinen won the gold medal in the pursuit competition and also pocketed the silver in the sprint. 28 year-old Mäkäräinen, a student at North Karelia University of Applied Sciences, […]
ERZURUM – February 5th –The “mass start” event was the last in the biathlon competition at the Universiade. No one was happier today than the FISU biathlon technical delegate, Czech Ondrej Rybar. And we are not referring to how smoothly all the events ran under the supervision of himself and the IBU delegate Ubaldo Prucker. […]
Another Gold for Ukraine ERZURUM – February 4th – Who but the Ukrainians could hope to take the mixed relay? The team was totally irresistible, with the Medallists from the previous events: Artem Pryma, Sergii Semenov, Svitlana Krykonchk and Vita Semerenko — they finished 2 minutes 28 seconds ahead of the Russians (!) and 3 […]
Second Medal for Artem Pryma, Silver this time Another Double Gold for Ukraine ERZURUM – February 2nd – The idea of the pursuit is actually very simple: the skiers leave in the order of their arrival at the sprint. So Artem Pryma (UKR) headed out in the first position for the men’s 12.5km pursuit event, […]
Double Gold for Ukraine ERZURUM – February 1st- It’s the second Winter Universiade for Artem Pryma. Indeed, this Ukrainian biathlete competed in Harbin two years ago and was ranked 8th in the pursuit event. This time it was a bit different. For the sprint event held in Kandili this morning Artem was totally unbeatable. No […]
Russian double in biathlon ERZURUM – January 29th- In Kandili, Russian athlete Alxey Trusow took the first place in Men’s 20 km Individual Biathlon Competition in which 200 athletes competed. Trusow got the lead early in the race and continued ahead to win the gold medal with a 57 minutes 34.02 seconds time. Bulgarian […]
OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced the student-athletes and coaches who will represent Canada in cross-country skiing and biathlon at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. The 24th Winter World University Games will run from January 27 to February 6. The cross-country skiing events get under way on Jan. 28, with the biathlon competitions […]
