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Anton Babikov / Photo: © Dmitry Chelyapin / Match TV

World champion Anton Babikov won the prologue in the duel shooting format before the start of the second stage of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup in Ufa.

In the decisive match, Babikov from the “Kings of the Quiet Hour” team, without making a single mistake, defeated Kirill Bazhin (“One Right”). In the small final, Mikhail Burundukov (“Kings of the Quiet Hour”) defeated three-time Games medalist Eduard Latypov (“Chuck-Chuck Norris”).

Earlier, Lyubov Kalinina from the Chuck-Chuck Norris team won the women’s competition. The next prologue will take place in Tchaikovsky also in the format of duel shooting.

The prologue is a pre-start competition that is organized by the SBR before the main competition program of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup, Championship and Russian Cup. Biathletes compete in four teams. At each individual stage, the winners of the competition receive 50, 40 and 30 thousand rubles, respectively, and points towards the standings. The overall winning team will receive 1 million rubles at the end of the season.

The second stage of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup will begin on Friday. Watch the live broadcast of the men’s sprint on the Match TV channel, starting at 8:35 (Moscow time), the broadcast of the women’s race is scheduled for 11:40 (Moscow time). You can also follow the progress of the competition on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

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2023-12-14 12:58:20

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