Biathlete Alexander Povarnitsyn told that during the 20 km individual race at the Russian Championship he was surprised by three mistakes, including in the standing position at the final shooting range.
The 20 km race of the Alfa-Bank Russian Summer Biathlon Championship took place on Thursday in Krasnoyarsk. Kirill Bazhin won. He made two penalties in four shooting stages and recorded a time of 49 minutes 48 seconds. Povarnitsyn was second (three misses; delay – 15.3 seconds), third – Leonid Kulguskin (0; +18.8).
— At the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup you finished 11th in the sprint, ninth and fourth in the pursuit and mass start. Today is the second. Did you manage to accelerate?
– Yes, I am climbing higher and higher, but it cannot be said that the absence of the leaders who have now left is the reason. Today’s race was better for me in terms of progress than the previous ones in the Commonwealth Cup. I am running away. In principle, this was the goal of our summer preparation. We did not prepare specifically for these competitions, we are preparing even more for the season.
— That is to say, the attitude towards these departures is rather part of the training process?
– Yes, that’s absolutely true. We didn’t want to reduce the load volume. Of course, we had to slow down to absorb such a large competition load, but for the most part, we are in very good training shape here.
— What were the reasons for the three mistakes today?
— On the stomach it was clear that the first shot did not cross the free space. Maybe the overall shot was a little lower, I will ask the coaches for a photo to understand it. But I did not understand what happened on the last line in a standing position. I placed all the accents correctly, paid much more attention to preparation, “cemented” my legs so that there were no hesitations. And you just pass by and that’s it. Apparently, some kind of nervous tension took its toll.
— They say that there is one of the most difficult shooting ranges in Russia here. How difficult is it?
— There is a sharp approach to the shooting range with a slight climb, preceded by a long descent. When you come up from the plain during a sprint, your muscle tension is not so strong, but here you wrap yourself up pretty well on the climb, make a long descent, recover, and your routine turns out to be a little irregular.
— What can you say about the wind conditions?
“Today it was interesting, because the wind was shifting, I already noticed it during filming and specifically tried to film with both winds. And my pile did not move much, and therefore I did not make any adjustments to the filming,” Povarnitsyn told .
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