The biathlon team of the Tyumen region, consisting of Victoria Slivko / Evgeny Garanichev, became the winner of the Russian biathlon championship in the single mixed relay.
The athletes covered the distance of 13.5 kilometers in 36 minutes 44.4 seconds, using six additional cartridges for two.
Silver medalists of the national championship, St. Petersburg team went to Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht and Maxim Tsvetkov. The biathletes were ten seconds behind the winners, using an extra seven laps along the way.
Bronze medals were won by Daniil Serokhvostov and Evgenia Burtasova from the Novosibirsk Region. They finished the race in 37 minutes 1.3 seconds using 11 extra rounds.
Teams from the Sverdlovsk Region (Irina Kazakevich / Kirill Bazhin) and Moscow (Daria Netbai and Karim Khalili) also managed to enter the top 5.
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