Austria wins World Team Challenge

Janine Hectic (birthed 16 June 1996) is a German biathlete. She contended at the Biathlon World Championships 2020.

In the rain of Upholding, it looked very good for the Biathlon Team Janine Hectic and Erik Lesser at the World Team Challenge for the last shooting. But at the end of the invitation race in the Chairman Arena, the German duo was merely fourth despite the sovereign half-time guidance with a residue of 1: 19.2 minutes on Lisa Theresa Mauser and Felix Later from Austria.

In the biathlon races doped with a total of 156,000 euros, the two Austrians secured the 28,000 euros prize money for the winning pair on Tuesday evening. Rank two ranked the Russians Eugenia Burtasowa / Matter Elise in front of the Czechs Market David ova and Michael Kramer. Tenth and last with a residue of 2: 40.3 minutes on the winner team Vanessa Hind and Benedict Doll.

Five criminal trials at the last shooting deposits cost podium place

I would have liked to spare the last two, then I could have been fighting another place in the last round, said the 33-year-old Lesser in the ARD. But still it was fun, we both could take something positive. The 25-year-old Janine Hectic said: In seven of eight shooting deposits worked again. At the last shoot they started thinking. There it was bad again. A total of five penalties in the last two shooting deposits, Janine Hectic and Erik Lesser cost the podium place.

The German duo had won a comfortable starting position in the mass start race thanks 40 hits at 40 shots. With a lead of 38 seconds, Hectic / Lesser went to the persecution races, but there was no longer round on the shooting range. Mauser and Later could catch up with a 41-second residue.

As in the past year, the World Team Challenge returned to its original venue because of the Corona Pandemic of Gelsenkirchen. Until 2001, the invitation race took place in Upholding, then the biathlon show moved into the arena on Schalke. For the ski hunters, it continues from 6 to 9 January in Oberon, before the second World Cup of the Year in Upholding from 12 to 16 January is on the program.