Winter Olympics Dorothea Wierer immense, Bronze in the 7.5 km sprint of the Beijing 2022 biathlon

The chronicle of the sprint race

It is Mars Roeiseland that sets the record straight right away. The mistress of the world cup starts off (bib number 5) and immediately sets the best time at each time measurement. Behind her, the festival of error begins: Tiril Eckhoff, Justine Braisaz, Denise Herrmann (champion in the 20km) and Kristina Retzsova make a mistake from the ground and are immediately called out of the race for the medals.

Shortly thereafter, Hanna Sola and Anais Chevalier are also wrong, putting Dorothea Wierer in ideal conditions. The Italian is not a phenomenon on skis, but if the Sprint becomes a shooting competition then she can hope for the medal. Roeiseland flies off perfectly even in the standing session, but the 31-year-old born in Brunico begins to test the ground with 23.1 seconds of the shooting range on the ground.

After about halfway through the race the situation becomes self-evident in front of everyone. Mars Roeiseland – with double zero – travels towards the gold medal, Wierer needs a large standing shooting range to aim for the podium, Alimbekava and the others do harakiri and of truly dangerous they remain alone the Oeberg sisters. On the one hand Hanna, on the other Elvira.

At the first polygon, the one from the ground, Elvira is perfect, while Hanna makes a mistake (which will then become three standing) and says goodbye to dreams of glory. On the next lap, Elvira doubles, but arrives before her too Wierer’s machine gun. With less than 2km to go, the Swedish giant and the Italian phenomenon go head to head. Upon arrival, Dorothea prints the second half, but a great progression of the Scandinavian born in 1999 gives her the silver medal.

A little bad, for Dorothea Wierer it is a historic bronze medal (for all the reasons listed above), while for Elvira Oeberg and Marte Roeiseland (third consecutive medal in these games) it is nothing more than confirmation of a space season. On Sunday we are back on track for the Pursuit. LIVE from 10:00 (Italian time).