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.

As part of the Alfa-Bank stage of the Russian Biathlon Championship in Izhevsk on Saturday, January 10, a single mixed relay will be held.

The race starts at 10:30 Moscow time. Follow the competition live from 10:00 on the Match TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

30 teams entered the single-mixed event, with Natalia Shevchenko and Kirill Bazhin (Sverdlovsk Region-1) performing as the first starting number. Kristina Reztsova and Karim Khalili will represent the first team of the Moscow region, Victoria Metelya and Daniil Serokhvostov will represent Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra-1. Victoria Slivko and Mikhail Burundukov (Tyumen Region-1), Elizaveta Burundukova and Anton Babikov (Republic of Bashkortostan-1), Ksenia Dovgaya and Alexander Loginov (Tyumen Region-2) and other duets will also perform at the competition.

Women will cover 6 km, men – 7.5 km.

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Swede Elvira Oeberg won the sprint race at the fourth stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof (Germany).

She covered the 7.5-kilometer distance in 22 minutes and 0.6 seconds, making no mistakes at two shooting ranges.

Second was Suvi Minkkinen from Finland, who, with clean shooting at the finish line, was 21.1 seconds behind the leader. Third place went to Julia Simon from France (+23.6; 0).

Earlier on Thursday, the men’s sprint was won by Italian Tommaso Giacomel.