He surprised everyone, including himself, with his first individual podium of Thursday.
Martin Ponsiluoma was a week Sweden’s new succénamn in the biathlon. But the starting position as third in Saturday’s pursuit in the Czech Nove Mesto was turned into a 14th place.
with the good. Until it would be pushed. Two boom both in the first and second shooting – and a total of five misses – dashing their hopes of a new podium.
In the lead, it was instead a Norwegian settlement between the brothers Bte. Johannes Thingnes Bö and Tarjei Bo came in together to the last shooting. Which shot both a bom – but the home stretch was Johannes Thingnes Bö the fastest.
last 23,9 seconds to his brother. Russian Alexander Loginov blew up into second place in a contest where even the French star Martin Fourcade impressed – by climbing from spot 43 to five.
Fourcade, however, was not the best climbers. The title went to a Swedish.
Sebastian Samuelsson took his second top-ten place in the world cup when he, despite two misses, climbed from 52nd to tenth place.
OS-guldkollegan from the winter relay, Jesper Nelin (three boom), set a personal best in world cup as tolva in a competition where only one rider (Fourcade) was pure on the embankment.
Further down in the list ended Torstein Stenersen (four bom) 39: (a).
Read more: Everything before the biathlon world CUP in Östersund, sweden, 2019
