The winner of the World Cup stages, international master of sports of the USSR in biathlon, Valery Noskov, died at the age of 59, reports the press service of the Russian Biathlon Union.

The causes of Noskov’s death have not been specified.

In 1988, Noskov became the silver medalist of the USSR Championship in the sprint race. He won the relay at the World Cup. At the 1990 World Championships, Noskov took ninth place in the sprint race in Holmenkollen, and in the relay race held in Kontiolahti, he became fifth as part of the USSR national team. The last time he took part in the World Cup was in the 1991/92 season, at the stage in Hochfilzen he took 13th place in the individual race. After finishing his sports career, Noskov worked as a biathlon coach at CSKA.

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.