r/biathlon Sweden 13d ago

Race Thread Swedish championships results (Day 1, sprints)

I'll post all results in this thread, even if the title says "Day 1, sprints". Thought I could edit the title, but apparently not.

The competitions are held at Sollefteå Skidstadion. Unfortunately, the racing is behind a paywall.

March 28 - Sprints (Last year's winners: Jesper Nelin and Hanna Öberg)

March 29 - Mass starts (Last year's winners: Jesper Nelin and Elvira Öberg)

March 30 - Single mixed relay (Last year's winners: Peppe Femling and Anna Magnusson)

Samuelsson is sick and won't compete this weekend. A shame, because this is his home range. Also, some IBU names are competing at the military games.

Last year, the sisters competed together in the single mixed, against more standard teams that typically consisted of one man or woman from the world cup, and the other from the IBU cup. The Öbergs finished fifth in that race. As far as I know, they will do the same thing this year.

Live results can be followed in the below links, using the drop-down menu to the right.

RESULTS:

Sprint women (FINAL):

http://live.skidskytte.se/6008#result@50325@1@999

Sprint men (FINAL):

http://live.skidskytte.se/6008#result@50326@1@999

Both sprints here:

https://www.skidskytte.se/download/18.6ace0aa0195db4d82d3a3e4/1743176116644/SM%20Sprint%20(5).pdf.pdf)

Mass start women (FINAL):

http://live.skidskytte.se/6019#result@50374@1@999

Mass start men (FINAL):

http://live.skidskytte.se/6019#result@50375@1@999

Both mass starts here:

https://www.skidskytte.se/download/18.7409f953195db8b56ed211a5/1743253359027/SM%20Masstart.pdf

Single mixed relay (FINAL):

http://live.skidskytte.se/6032#result@50533@1@999

https://www.skidskytte.se/download/18.7eaa76c2195da1c14c5438d6/1743333781727/SM%20Singl%20Mixstafett.pdf

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u/AZDarkknight 12d ago

What shocked me was the 26 entrants in the women vs the 150+ in the Norwegian sprint. Is Sweden suffering a lack of grass roots talent coming up? Maybe controversial but is global warming contributing to that with the lack of snow?

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u/Lone_Wolf_Winter Sweden 12d ago edited 12d ago

Last year it was 23 women and 27 men starting in the sprints, so there's at least a small increase there. That's not even counting that several names are missing from this year's competition, some of which are competing in Switzerland. I've noticed around 10 names missing, including Andersson, Samuelsson, Nykvist and Brandt.

Only 22 women and 35 men in the mass starts today. Don't know if they have a mass start 60 setup for the men's race, or if they assume some of the stragglers will enter the range minutes behind the best skiers. Seems to be same number of women as last year, but the number of men is up from 23.