Biathlon: Eberhard with a huge separation has won the sprint in Pyeongchang

Austrian biathlete Eberhard Julian with a big advantage was the winner of the sprint race at the world Cup in Pyeongchang (South Korea).

Eberhard this season has become a real specialist in the sprint – only one two-meter race, the Austrian was not ranked in the top 10 in three starts finished on the podium.

Today Eberhard at the shooting range showed great accuracy and rate of fire, and on the course due to the huge leverage has created a 40-second lead over closest pursuer. Now in the pursuit Eberhard will actually compete with himself.

Sensational world champion Lowell Bailey again loudly reminded of himself – the American with the perfect shooting took second place, five seconds ahead of the world Cup leader Martin Fourcade, who is on the firing line allowed two inaccuracies.

The best among Ukrainians was Brendan, who managed to shoot without mistakes. Prima is the fourth time in his career in personal race of the world Cup was in the top 10. Good results in the sprint showed pidruchnuy Dmytro and Serhiy Semenov – both of the athletes are kept in top 25 of the standings of the world Cup.

Pyeongchang-gun. Men. The results of the sprint:

1. Julian Eberhard (Austria, 0+0) 23:11.1
2. Lowell Bailey (USA, 0+0) +40.7
3. Martin Fourcade (France, 1+1) +45.4
…
10. Pryma Artem (Ukraine, 0+0) +1:07.7
16. Pidruchnuy Dmytro (Ukraine, 1+1) +1:21.6
25. Sergey Semenov (Ukraine, 0+1) +1:34.7
54. Vladimir Semakov (Ukraine, 0+2) +2:20.5
58. Alexander Bold (Ukraine, 2+1) +2:34.4

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