The Ukrainian team was represented by Yuliya Dzhima and Dmytro Pidruchny.
On Saturday, December 28, the traditional annual Christmas Biathlon Race took place in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Ten teams took part in it, including the Ukrainian national team, for which Yulia Dzhima competed. and Dmitry Pidruchnyi.
The Christmas race consisted of two parts of the mixed relay – mass start and pursuit. The winners were determined by the results of the pursuit.
The Ukrainians finished the mass start in third place. Norway came in first, France came in second.
In the pursuit, the “blue-yellows” failed to stay in the top three. The Ukrainian duo finished in seventh place.
The Norwegians Caroline Knotten and Sturla Laegreid won the Christmas race. The other two places on the podium were chosen by German pairs: Anna Weidel and Justus Strehlow took second place, and Franziska Preuss and Philipp Nawrath came in third.
Source: Baltimore Chronicle