Sarah Beaudry of Prince George finished 65
th after two misses while prone and had one missed standing target. The 26-year-old veteran finished 2:10.5 behind race winner Tiril Eckhoff of Norway, who finished the nighttime race in 18:11.1. Denise Hermann of Germany won silver (+6.1 seconds) and Dorothea Wierer of Italy captured bronze (+10.5). All three medalists shot clean. Emma Lunder of Vernon had an especially tough day on the range with four prone misses and one standing target left up. She placed 92
nd out of 103 starters, 3:17.9 off the pace. Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yukon was right behind Lunder in 93
rd place (2+2, +3:19.4), while Megan Bankes of Calgary was 100
The native of Canmore, Alta., ended up 56.4 seconds behind race winner Simon Desthieux of France, who completed the course in 22:58.0, 2.4 seconds ahead of Sebastien Samuelsson of Sweden and 4.4 seconds ahead of bronze medalist Arnd Peiffer of Germany. For Gow, it was his best result since Feb. 15, 2020 when he placed 16
th in the sprint at the world championships in Anholz-Anterselva, Italy. His 27-year-old brother Christian Gow finished 31
st with one miss on the range (0+1, +1:12.7). Adam Runnalls of Calgary placed 43
rd (0+1, +1:35.2) and also qualified in the top 60 in the sprint to make the cut for Sunday’s pursuit. Trevor Kiers of Sprucedale, Ont. (2+1, +3:15.4) finished 94
Scott Gow of Canmore is getting better with age. The 30-year-old senior member of Canada’s national biathlon team nailed down his top solo result of the season Saturday on the BMW IBU World Cup . . .
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Germans Vanessa Hinz, Janina Hettich, Denise Herrmann and Franziska Pruess celebrated their win on home soil in front of an empty stadium with fans prohibited because of the pandemic. Germany took the lead after anchor skier Preuss cleaned her standing targets to head into the final segment before the finish. They went penalty-free and used just five spares in eight shooting bouts. Belarus used nine spares and also went penalty-free, stopping the clock 17.9 seconds behind Germany. Sweden (0+9, +35.7) took bronze. Canada was in 12th place when Moser tagged Lunder. Lunder picked up four positions after cleaning her standing targets and was seventh at the second exchange, where she tagged Bankes. The Calgarian equalled Lunder’s shooting performance and used just one spare to knock down 10 targets. Bankes worked her way up as high as fourth place after a rapid 5-for-5 shooting display while standing and the Canadians were sixth, about a minute off the lead, when Beaudry was tagged to begin her six-kilometre race.
For Gow, it was his highest placing since Feb. 16, 2019 when he finished eighth in the pursuit at Soldier Hollow, Utah. It was a 1-2-3 finish in the men’s race for Norway. Johannes Dale claimed the silver medal, 15.6 seconds behind Laegreid, and Tarjei Boe was third, 25.4 seconds off the pace. Scott Gow of Canmore, Christian’s older brother, also qualified for the pursuit and finished 40
th after shooting 18-for-20. He was 3:10.5 behind Laegreid. In the women’s 10 km pursuit Saturday in Oberhof, Emma Lunder of Vernon was the top Canadian in 23rd place. Lunder had just one miss and finished 3:21.1 behind gold medalist Tiril Eckhoff of Norway. It took a photo finish to determine the medals and Eckhoff, who won Friday’s sprint, edged Norwegian teammate Marte Olsbu Roiseland by just half a second. Lisa Theresa Hauser of Austria won bronze, 43 seconds behind Eckhoff.
Beaudry was perfect in two shooting bouts crossed the finish 2:33.1 behind gold medalist Tiril Eckhoff of Norway, who topped the field of 104 racers with a time of 23:54. Lunder missed one prone and one standing target and stopped the clock 2:30.1 off the winning pace. Hanna Oeberg of Sweden (0+0, +29.6) and Lisa Theresa Hauser of Austria (0+1, +40.2) also made the medal podium. In other Canadian results, Megan Bankes of Calgary placed 64
th (0+2, +2:58.3) and Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yukon was 79
th (2+1, +3:43.2). Both missed the cut for Saturday’s 10 km women's pursuit. In the men’s 10 km sprint Friday, the Gow brothers of Canmore each qualified for the pursuit. Christian Gow finished 29
nd out of 106 racers in Friday’s BMW IBU World Cup women’s sprint. Lunder, a 29-year-old from Vernon, placed 11
th. Only the top 60 sprint finishers qualify for the 10 km pursuit and Beaudry did that with a near-perfect 9-for-10 shooting performance and a finishing time that was 1:42.4 behind that of Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff, who completed the 7.5-kilometre course in 19 minutes 38 seconds. “Not quite enough zoom to get into the points (only the top 40 do) but enough to get a second chance tomorrow,” wrote Beaudry, on her Instagram page. Lunder shot clean on the range and was just 48.3 seconds behind Eckhoff.