Biathlon World Cup – Women's 15 km endurance race, 9 March 2023 in Östersund. Czech biathlete Markéta Davidová.
Östersund (Sweden) – In the endurance race of the World Cup in Östersund, biathlete Markéta Davidová did not follow up on her triumph from last season and took thirteenth place. Two errors in the final shooting event deprived the 2021 world champion of the podium. Today's race belonged to the Italian women, who were flawless on the shooting range. Dorothea Wierer won by 25.5 seconds ahead of Lisa Vittozzi, who secured a small crystal globe for the discipline evaluation.
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Davidová started on the track with starting number one and shot cleanly in the first three events, which kept her in the lead even after passing other favorites. But she missed the second and fifth shots on the final item. The cold weather in Sweden was also to blame. “I'm sorry about the second one, but my fingers were so frozen that I couldn't feel anything. I wasn't able to put my fingers together before the shooting,” she told Czech Television. She was not good enough even on the fifteen-kilometer track. “I have to say that today did not go as well as I would have imagined,” lamented the Czech representative. She lost more than three minutes to the winning Wierer. She was about a minute and a half away from bronze medalist Denise Herrmannová-Wicková of Germany.
The second best Czech in the race was Lucie Charvátová, who took 26th place with two penalty minutes. This is her best ranking in the current SP season, where she had only one point so far.
The forty-first Tereza Voborníková, who recorded three penalty minutes, was about a second away from the top forty. Jessica Jislová was unable to run after health problems and was fifty-first with two errors. Tereza Vinklárková failed, who did not hit a single target during the second layup and had a total of nine penalty minutes. She was the penultimate of the 93 female biathletes who finished the race.
At 4:20 p.m. the men's endurance race will start.
Biathlon World Championships in Östersund (Sweden) – endurance races:
Women (15 km):1. Wiererová 41:19.6 min. (0 tr. minutes), 2. Vittozzi (both It.) -25.5 (0), 3. Hermannová-Wicková (German) -1:38.8 (1), 4. Simonová (Fr.) – 1:49.5 (2), 5. Lunderová (Can.) -2:11.9 (0), 6. Voigtová (Germany) -2:19.2 (1), …13 . Davidová -3:08.6 (2), 26. Charvátová -3:58.7 (2), 41. Voborníková -5:10.7 (3), 51. Jislová -5:52.3 (2), 92. Vinklárková (all Czech Republic) -13:13.0 (9).
Final order of endurance races (after 3 races): 1. Vittozziová 225, 2. Simonová 155, 3. H. Öbergová (Sweden) 153, 4. Tandrevoldová (Nor.) 147, 5. Wiererová 143, 6. Jeanmonnotová (Fr.) 129, …10. Davidová 87, 32. Jislová 27, 45. Voborníková 19, 48. Charvátová 16, 65. Václavíková (ČR) 1.
Provisional ranking of SP (after 17 from 21 races): 1. Simonová 943, 2. Vittozziová 795, 3. Wiererová 769, 4. E. Öbergová (Swed.) 756, 5. Herrmannová-Wicková 728, 6. Tandrevoldová 663, 7. Davidová 582, …37. Jislová 134, 54. Voborníková 57, 72. Charvátová 16, 81. Václavíková 1.
16:20 endurance race 20 km men.
