MOSCOW, 15 Jan. The Russian men's biathlon team took first place in the relay race at the sixth stage of the World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany.
The Russian team, which included Karim Khalili, Daniil Serokhvostov, Alexander Loginov and Maxim Tsvetkov, passed a distance of 4×7.5 kilometers in one hour 11 minutes 6.1 seconds, using four additional cartridges. The Germans won the silver (+7.0; 2), the Belarusians won the bronze (+23.0; 6). The judges subtracted two minutes from the result the Norwegian team, which became the seventh (+2.00.6; 10). At the first stage of the relay, the Swede Peppe Femling shot at the setting of the Norwegian Alexander Fjeld Andersen, because of this, he lost a lot of time at the turn and went to two penalty loops. The last time the Russian men's team won the relay at the World Cup on January 13, 2019. Then the Russians Maxim Tsvetkov, Evgeny Garanichev, Dmitry Malyshko and Alexander Loginov won the German Oberhof. On Sunday, women's and men's pursuit races will be held in Ruhpolding.