Wynn Roberts began his first race of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in the Individual Race. He finished 86th with 8 total misses.
Wynn at the start – Photo: Ben Kremer
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TrackbackDay 2 of the Biathlon World Team Trials started off with a low of -12 F. Fortunately, the sun pushed through clouds and the Men’s 15km Mass Start began after a 2hr delay. The new range approach, an extremely steep 75m climb, played havoc with the shooting for both men and women.
Walt Shepard, Yarmouth, ME, got the drop on the field after the first shooting with an extremely fast and accurate first prone shooting. A classic biathlon duel evolved over the next three stages with Zach Hall, Anchorage, AK, matching Shepard’s shooting accuracy but falling slightly behind in shooting speed. Hall was able to close the gap down over each ski leg. Shepard and Hall left the last shooting stages only a few seconds apart. Hall pounded out the last 3km with Shepard hanging on for dear life, with only 2.6 seconds separting the two at the finish. The battle for third went to Dan Campbell, Bozeman, MT, with Jesse Downs, Jericho, VT and Wynn Roberts, Battle Lake, MN filling out the top 5. Roberts posted the top ski time of the day for the second day in a row, but 8 penalties were too many to overcome.
In the women’s race, Carolyn Bramante, Duluth, MN, took the early lead after the first shooting stage with clean shooting, but as soon as the standing stages began Tracy Colliander, Durango, CO, put on one of her signature displays of fast and flawless shooting. Tracy went on to 60 sec victory. Second and third places changed off several times in the later half of the race. Laura Spector diplayed some of the ski speed that had put her on 2 World Championship team and finished 2nd with 6 total penalties. With the fastest ski time of the day, Susan Dunklee, Barton, VT managed to salvage a 3rd place finish after a disappointing day on the shooting range with 9 penalties.
Competition for the 4 men’s and 4 women’s positions on the IBU Cup Team will resume on Dec 19th at Mt Itasca. Three more races remain in the best 3 of 5 race series. Complete results for all races can be viewed at www.minnesotabiathlon and www.usbiathlon.org.
Comments rss TrackbackThe snowguns are on all the time now.
Targets has been sanded again, painted – looking awesome!!!
later,
Petra
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Our July minicamp was held here the past two days– weather was in the 60’s with heavy wind both days–challenging the shooting skills of both novice and experienced. A major focus of the camp was ski skills–and each improved noticeably. On Wed we worked on basic ski skills on the first morning–then switched to plyos [see pictures] until lunch. After a 2 mile run to the range– we worked on accuracy with a 50 shot test in 2man teams– and then finished with a 1.5 km sprint race. Then on to a chilly swim at Pelican Beach, rifle cleaning, a big supper, a hike to the DQ in Nisswa–and finally some video review. Yesterday between the 7:00 warm up on skis– 4km time trial [followed by a few pancakes] and a 26 km distance ski–they covered a total on Thurs of about 32km in moderately hilly terrain– all in the am, then back to the range after lunch for our Festival of Team events as shown below. I think most everyone was pretty much toast by mid pm on the way home. Thanks to the Bakers and Hadrits for providing a cheering section at the race events yesterday!!
My special thanks to Charlie Merhar for his help in coaching during the whole camp; Bakers for a lunch on Wed, Ruzich’s and Bakers for hosting athletes nearby; and my ever patient wife, Jean for cooking, cleaning up and putting up with all of us!!
Bill Meyer
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Comments rss TrackbackElk River Summer Biathlon
Hosted by Twin Cities Biathlon
5km Mass Start Running Biathlon
Elk River, MN – Ranked order by final time
1 Ben Greenwald 1-1-5-4 24:00 YM
2 Zean Baker 3-2-3-4 24:29 YM
3 Jenna Ruzich 0-3-3-1 26:31 YW
4 Ty Hadrits 3-0-4-2 27:23 YM
5 Brian Wray 4-2-3-1 28:05 SM
6 Lou Chouinard 3-2-1-2 30:58 MM
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Comments rss TrackbackRunning Summer Biathlon Race + Novice Race, June 20, 2009 – Mt.Itasca, Coleraine
Held at the conclusion to the Annual Shooting Camp run by Bill Meyer. Conditions were sunny with a slight breeze. Most of the Youth Men and Women, and Boys and Girls had taken part in the camp. The shooting scores don’t quite reflect the progress made in the previous 2-4 days of intense shooting training and rollerskiing, but fatigue was setting in, and focus was not at 100%. Thanks for participating!
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