And again Labytnangi! Russian sportswomen – biathletes won the victory at the relay race at the World Cup

The women’s national team of Russia on biathlon consisting of Ekaterina Yurlova-Pekht, Larisa Kuklina (Labytnangi), Margarita Vasilyeva and Yevgeniya Pavlova won the victory at the relay race of the World Cup, which is taking place in Oberhof.

Our sportswomen did not receive penalty laps but used eight additional cartridges. The advantage of the citizen of St. Petersburg Ekaterina Yurlova-Pekht was so great that she came to the finish line with the Russian flag in her hands.

The German sportswomen came second to the finish line on 33.5 seconds later than the Russian sportswomen. The Czech team became the third. As we should remind, previous time the women’s team of Russia in biathlon won the similar competitions in 2012. On the 4^th of January of 2012 at the World Cup in Oberhof Anna Bogaliy, Svetlana Sleptsova, Olga Zaitseva and Olga Vilukhina were ahead of the national teams of Norway and France.