Norway ends biathlon with more than half of gold medals
Xinhua| Sixth Olympic gold medal in biathlon.
Chinese player Cheng Fangming successfully finished the race, ranking 30th.
Norway’s Yoo Bowie missed the target in the first round, ranking eighth. But he quickly overtook the rest of the runners and rose to the top with an excellent slide before reaching the second round of shooting. In the subsequent game, John Bowie did not give his opponent any chance, kept the lead and crossed the line first, with a time of 38 minutes 14 seconds 4.
Sweden’s Martin Ponsiloma finished second, winning his first Olympic medal.
“I was very close to a medal in the sprint. I really wanted a medal, it was my last chance, I took it and I’m very happy,” said Ponsiloma after the race. The previous man In the 10km sprint he finished sixth and missed the medal.
In the previous men’s 4×7.5 km relay, as the fourth pole of the Norwegian team, Wettler Shosta Christiansen surpassed his opponent through two rounds of quick and zero-error shooting and helped the Norwegian team win 1 gold. On the 18th, excellent shooting also helped him. With a perfect shot in the fourth round, he jumped from seventh to third, eventually earning himself a bronze medal.
So far, the biathlon competitions of the Beijing Winter Olympics have all ended. In 11 events, the Norwegian team topped the biathlon medal table with 6 golds, 2 silvers and 6 bronzes.