It looked set to become a Swedish double victory in the women’s sprint at the european CHAMPIONSHIP in Minsk. Hanna Öberg, was in the lead up to the second and final shooting, but two penalty rounds after the double bar there and the distance up to the top was too large.
instead got another Swedish forward. Mona Brorsson was down all white dots and took his second gold in two days. On Thursday, the gold in the mixedstafetten.
a strong spurtvarv and came in at third place and receiving a bronze to add to the gold she took in the distansloppet earlier in the week.
the Result of the sprint is the basis for Sunday’s pursuit, so there is location for more medals for the duo Brosson and Öberg.
the little girl goes out to 37.5 seconds ahead of russia’s Ekaterina Jurlova-Percht, while Hanna Öberg is a further eight seconds behind.
most of todays leading stars refrain EM to instead charge for the world CUP, which will be determined in Östersund in march. The swedes have chosen a different tactic and bet on the championship, which, among other things, led to three gold so far.
on the men’s side. Jesper Nelin took silver in the sprint after having set all of their ten shots. NorskeTarjei Bø had a bom, but was faster in the track and took gold with a segermarginal in 10 seconds.
Although Martin Ponsiluoma was on the road to a nice result, but had a boom in the last bout, and finished in ninth place, 47,6 seconds from the lead.
After his stafettguld on Thursday chose Sebastian Samuelsson to waive the sprint, which is the basis for Sunday’s pursuit.
”Have got to the races and the answers I wanted here in Minsk, with the relay yesterday as the highlight, so choose not to rip out the body too much with more competitions in the weekend. The form is on the rise,” wrote Samuelsson on Instagram on Friday.
