Bolshunov will miss the Race of Champions due to illness, Mitroshin will compete in his place

Three-time Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Alexander Bolshunov will not compete at the TECHNONICOL Race of Champions skiing and biathlon in Ryazan for health reasons, Sergei Averyanov, head of the press service of the Russian Biathlon Union (SBR), reported on his Telegram channel.

Instead of Bolshunov, Egor Mitroshin will take part in the Race of Champions.

“They waited for Bolshunov until the last minute; he gave preliminary consent to participate, but illness prevented him from performing in Ryazan,” wrote Averyanov.

The biathletes had one forced replacement: Anastasia Shevchenko fell ill, so Inna Tereshchenko will start the race.

The race lineup is as follows:

biathlon: Alexander Loginov, Alexander Povarnitsyn, Anton Babikov, Daniil Usov, Evgeny Sidorov, Kirill Bazhin, Alexander Kornev, Dmitry Lazovsky, Anton Smolsky, Eduard Latypov, Svetlana Mironova, Irina Kazakevich, Kira Dyuzheva, Dinara Smolskaya, Polina Plyusnina, Tamara Derbusheva, Natalia Shevchenko, Elizaveta Burundukova, Victoria Slivko, Inna Tereshchenko.

cross-country skiing: Ivan Gorbunov, Pavel Solovyov, Sergey Ardashev, Sergey Volkov, Egor Mitroshin, Ivan Yakimushkin, Konstantin Tiunov, Denis Spitsov, Artem Maltsev, Alexander Terentyev, Alena Baranova, Tatyana Sorina, Anastasia Faleeva, Veronika Stepanova, Evgenia Krupitskaya, Ekaterina Smirnova, Lidia Gorbunova, Alina Pekletsova, Yulia Stupak, Ekaterina Nikitina.

The cross-country skiing and biathlon competition “TECHNONICOL Race of Champions” will be held at the Ryazan Almaz stadium on January 3 and 4.