Youth Men 12.5 km Individual Competition

Finland’s Arttu Heikkinen after two early penalties, cleaned the last two stages of this morning’s Youth Men’s 12.5 km individual, to win the first Gold medal at the IBU Youth and Junior World Championships at Soldier Hollow in 36:58.6. A few hours later, Sweden’s Sara Andersson, after two misses in the first standing stage rebounded with just one penalty in the last two stages to win the Youth women’s 10 km individual Gold Medal in 38:58.2.

Tomorrow’s biathlon stars are this week getting the opportunity to compete at a venue steeped in biathlon and Olympic Winter Games history, Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah, USA. Over the next eight days, competitors at the IBU Youth and Junior World Championships will be vying for medals on the same tracks where Ole Einar Bjorndalen became a legend with his four Gold medal sweep at the 2002 Salt Lake OWG.