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TYUMEN, Mar 30 Victoria Slivko won the sprint race at the Russian Biathlon Championship , which takes place in Tyumen. She covered the distance of 7.5 km in 22 minutes 33.1 seconds, with one miss on two firing lines. The second was Elizaveta Kaplina (+8.7 s; no misses), the third — Anastasia Goreeva (+13.6; 2). The biathletes who competed in the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics failed to get into the top three. Kristina Reztsova took fourth place (+17.3; 3), Irina Kazakevich — ninth (+1.13.0; 3), Uliana Nigmatullina — 18th (+1.39.56; 2), Svetlana Mironova — 23rd (+ 2.02.5; 3), Evgenia Burtasova did not compete. Belarusian biathletes also took part in the sprint, among which Irina Leshchenko became the best. She is on the 15th line (+1.28.7; 2). The Russian Championship will end on April 4th. Earlier, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from their competitions against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, on Tuesday the IBU suspended the membership of the Russian Biathlon Union and the Belarusian Biathlon Federation.