Beaudry/Campbell just miss IBU Cup biathlon medal
Two seconds. After 40 minutes of racing Sunday in the IBU Cup biathlon single mixed relay in Obertilliach, Austria, just two ticks of the clock is all that kept Sarah Beaudry of Prince George and Carsen Campbell of Bedeque, P.E.I. , off the medal podium.
The two Canadians were right on the heels of Ukrainians Yulia Zhuravok and Artem Pryma when Pryma crossed the finish just ahead of Campbell to claim the bronze medal
Russia (Kristina Reztsova and Alexey Volkov) won gold in 39:07.2, 37.1 seconds ahead of the silver medalists from France (Julia Simon and Emilien Jacquelin).
It was the second fourth-place result for Beaudry/Campbell in the single mixed relay, which includes two ski segments and four bouts of shooting for each biathlete. Beaudry shot clean in her first bout and had two misses in her standing bout on the range. Campbell missed three his first bout and had one miss in his second bout.
In the mixed relay that followed in Obertilliach, Canada (Megan Tandy of Prince George, Nadia Moser of Whitehorse, Yukon, Jules Burnotte of Sherbrooke, Que., and Macx Davies of Canmore) finished seventh.
They were 2:07.3 behind the goldmedal pace of Norway (1:10:44.9). Germany won silver and France took bronze.
At the BMW World Cup in Annecy-Le Grand Bormand, France., Scott Gow of Canmore finished 26th in the men’s 15 km mass start event, while Emma Lunder of Vernon was 28th in the women’s 12.5 mass start. Justine Briasaz of France won gold in the women’s event and Martin Fourcade of France took the men’s race.
Beaudry placed 24th in the IBU Cup biathlon women’s 7.5-kilometre sprint Saturday.
Beaudry, the top Canadian, had just one miss in four shooting rounds and finished the course 1: 20.6 behind race winner Karolin Horchler of Germany.
Julia Simon of France won silver and Uliana Kaisheva of Russia took bronze. Horchler clocked 21:38.5.
Tandy finished 31st, 1:34.9 off the pace. She had two missed targets. Moser was 58th. In the men’s 10 km sprint, Carsen Campbell of Bedeque, P.E.I., was the top Canadian in 13th place. He was 1:05.6 behind gold medalist Dmitry Malyshko of Russia, who stopped the clock in 24:44.1. Eduard Latyov of Russia won silver and Emilien Jacquelin of France claimed bronze.
Macx Davies of Canmore was 58th, Jules Burnotte of Sherbrooke, Que, was 74th and Matthew Hudec of Edmonton was 88th.