MOSCOW, Jan 26 European Championship, which takes place in Arber, Germany. Babikov, who is a substitute in the Russian team for the Olympic Games, covered a distance of 20 kilometers without a miss on four firing lines in 51 minutes 43.7 seconds. The victory was won by the Norwegian Sverre Dalen Aspens (51.32.1; 0). The third was the German Matthias Dorfer (+1.08.9; 0). The Russian Nikita Porshnev became the ninth (+2.41.5; 2), Alexander Povarnitsyn — 11th (+3.06.7; 3), Vasily Tomshin — 12th ( +3.11.6), Petr Pashchenko — 30th (+4.50.2; 4), Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov — 46th (+6.17.8; 7).
