Italian Tommaso Giacomel won the pursuit race at the fourth stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof (Germany).

Giacomel, who started first, covered the 12.5 km distance in 37 minutes 15.4 seconds; the Italian made six misses in four shooting ranges. The second place was taken by the Norwegian Martin Uldahl (lag – 4.5 seconds; 4 misses), the third – by the Swede Sebastian Samuelsson (+8.8; 6).

Jacomel won his third race in a row, scored 611 points and led the overall World Cup standings ahead of Johan-Olav Botn (560) from Norway.

Later on Saturday the women’s relay will take place in Oberhof.

The first team of the Sverdlovsk region, consisting of Kirill Bazhin and Natalia Shevchenko, won the single mixed relay at the Alfa-Bank Russian Biathlon Championships in Izhevsk.

Bazhin and Shevchenko used seven additional rounds, avoided penalty loops and achieved a result of 35 minutes 22.1 seconds. Second were Rustam Kayumov and Anastasia Zyryanova from the second team of the Moscow region (lag – 4.9 seconds; 0 penalty loops and 4 additional rounds), third – Mikhail Burundukov and Victoria Slivko (Tyumen region-1; +25.5; 0+8).

The men’s and women’s mass starts will take place on Sunday.

Watch live broadcasts of the Russian Biathlon Championship on TV channels of the Match family, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

Russian biathlete Anastasia Khalili said on Match TV that she was diagnosed with asthenic syndrome.

Khalili took to the start of the individual race at the Russian Championships in Izhevsk on Thursday, but failed to finish. Before this, the 26-year-old athlete had not competed for 1.5 months.

“I won’t say that I was very sick, I just had a cough.” Then, when the cough went away, a low-grade fever of about 37.3 appeared, which has been rising for 1.5 months now. A diagnosis of asthenic syndrome was made. It is not clear whether after coronavirus or flu. The bottom line is that thermoregulation has been disrupted, and the temperature can rise for a month or two. There is nothing terrible about this, the main thing is that I don’t feel it, my tests are normal.

I had a good training camp in Sochi and completed the entire training plan. The temperature rose after high-speed work, but the condition was good. We thought that I would show a good result here in Izhevsk, that perhaps I would return to my previous form. Maybe it was acclimatization, maybe it was psychosomatics, I don’t know, but I woke up without the feeling that there would be a race, there was no jitters. How do I see further developments? I don’t know what to do.

The main start is Sochi (stage of the Commonwealth Cup in mid-February – approx.). The whole mood is directed there. No ratings will save me, because I missed 10 races. I feel good at altitude, so I’m getting ready for Sochi. I also hope to perform in Rybinsk (Russian Cup stage) and Raubichi (Commonwealth Cup stage).

I don’t know how to get out of this. I would like to perform well this season, given that I had a good summer. But in an instant everything just collapsed,” Khalili told Match TV.

On Saturday, a single mixed relay takes place at the Alfa-Bank Russian Championship in Izhevsk.

Watch the live broadcast of the competition at this very moment on the Match TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.