Elvira Öberg triumphs: Biathlon World Cup ends with exciting duels!

Elvira Öberg triumphs: Biathlon World Cup ends with exciting duels!

Lenzerheide, Schweiz - The crowning glory of the Biathlon World Championship brings exciting twists! In the last race of women, the mass start, Elvira Öberg secured the gold medal with an impressive victory. The Swede triumphed in front of the French woman Ocean Michelon and Mareen Kirekeide from Norway. For the Tyrolean Lisa Hauser, however, things did not go according to plan: with just a faulty bed, but three mistakes in the first two shooting deposits, she missed a top 10 placement and landed in the disappointing twelfth place, 1: 09.2 minutes behind the winner. Their mileage was strong (eleventh runtime), but the mistakes at the shooting range cost them valuable places, such as laola1.at reported.

Germany's triumph in the persecution race

The focus of the event was also the persecution of women, in which the overall World Cup leading Franziska Preuss shone from Germany. She secured her first gold medal in a World Cup in Lenzerheide and was able to build almost 50 seconds in the last round. With an error-free shooting performance, she finished the race 39.1 seconds before the Swede Elvira Öberg, who asserted herself in an exciting duel for silver against Frenchess Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and only kept the upper hand by 1.8 seconds. The performance of Lisa Hauser was also remarkable because it improved from 26th to 15th. However, two mistakes in the last shooting cost her a better placement, such as ski1.at reported.

Overall, the day was characterized by intensive competitions in which the nerves of the athletes were put to the test. The Biathlon World Championship has once again shown that even with the best training session, mistakes on the shooting range are decisive for missing medal dreams.