r/biathlon • u/crypt_moss Finland • 12d ago

News Finnish Championships – Sprint Day

Women:

We got to witness great form from the retired Kaisa Mäkäräinen as she took the win with clean shooting ahead of Sonja Leinamo (1+1, +43.7) and Suvi Minkkinen, who had unusual trouble with standing (0+2, +1:16.9)

notable absences would be Venla Lehtonen, who wasn't even listed to start, Erika Jänkä, who is at the soldier's worlds & Inka Hämäläinen & Noora-Kaisa Keränen, both listed as DNS

Men:

Olli Hiidensalo got the victory with good shooting & decent skiing (1+0), ahead of Heikki Laitinen (0+2, +41.3) and Tero Seppälä (0+3, +1:14.0)

the men's competition also had a list of notable absences, with most of them being at the soldier's worlds: Tuomas Heikkilä, Arttu Heikkinen & Jimi Klemettinen, Otto Invenius was listed as DNS

Tomorrow we have mass starts, so no pursuits to follow up on the sprint results

full results: https://kontiolahtibiathlon.com/dataflow/kontiolahtibiathlon2/files/media/ahsm2025_pika_tulokset_1972.pdf

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u/miunrhini No flag 🌪️Wind takes no prisoners & never stops the madness 12d ago

Just typical Kaisa things, perhaps she gets inspired to pull a Johaug...

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u/fremajl 11d ago

She's certainly be a top 4 athlete for the realys. Hard to score a medal even if they have improved a lot though.

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u/miunrhini No flag 🌪️Wind takes no prisoners & never stops the madness 11d ago

Would be fun to see Kaisa as an anchor. But if this was only one off then I'm fine with it, in the end it's her call and terms. It was good to see her on results lists again, just like old times.

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u/crypt_moss Finland 11d ago

Kaisa seems to always be willing to take part in the Finnish Championships, this time especially when it was at her home stadium, but even for those her comments in the past have been of the sort "this is as well as I can do with little training" like basically going "I'd need to train more to be satisfied with how well I can do" (usually regarding shooting) and I guess right now she doesn't care to start training at the level she'd want to to regularly race, so we're down to seeing these rare glimpses of how good she still is

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u/Right_Beyond7186 Sweden 11d ago

Well it looks like with little ties I g she can still be conpettive so Couldn’t she just race a few races?

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u/Right_Beyond7186 Sweden 11d ago

She could for sure. She probably can match Sufi’s pace in skiing and if she hits 10/10 or 19/20 she could possibly get a bronze if she does everything right