00 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Women Sprint. 18.00 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Men Sprint. 2006-03-18 13.15 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Women Pursuit. Live 14.30 World Cup Kontiolahti Norway Men Pursuit. Live 2006-03-19 13.00 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Women 12.5km Mass Start. LIve 13.45 World Cup Kontiolahti Norway Men Pursuit 14.30 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Men 15km Mass Start. Live 18.00 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Women 12.5km Mass Start. 19.00 World Cup Kontiolahti Finland Men 15km Mass Start www.eurosport.com 7th biathlon World Cup stage Seventh biathlon World Cup stage takes place in Pokljuka (Slovenia) from 8th until 12th of March. In the program: Sprint and Pursuit. On Sunday there will be a Mixed Relay, which will be held as a part of the World Championships. Mixed Relay. Russia I – 16th That’s how disappointingly finished the World Cup stage in Pokljuka. In the Mixed Relay, which took place today as a part of World Championships, Russia I squad consisting of Olga Anisimova, Ivan Tcherezov, Natalia Guseva and Maxim Tchoudov finally ranked 16th. Only Olga Anisimova managed to avoid penalty loops. At the exchange she was 5th, 1.07,7 minutes behind the leader. Ivan Tcherezov made three errors in the prone. Shooting even worse in the standing stance he had to ran a penalty loop. When he finished his leg he was 7th with a gap of more than 2 minutes from the current leaders. Natalia Guseva managed to shoot with only one miss in the prone but unfortunately had to circle two penalty loops after her second shooting session. Maxim Tchoudov was perfect in the prone but had to run four penalty loops after the standing stance. So here are the medalists of today’s race: squad Russia II became the world champions (Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Sergei Tchepikov, Irina Malgina, Nikolay Kruglov), silver went to Norway I (Linda Tjoerhom, Halvard Hanevold, Tora Berger, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen), bronze – to France I (Florence Baverel-Robert, Vincent Defrasne, Sandrine Bailly, Raphael Poiree). For more detailed information and complete result list go to www.rbu-biathlon.ru and www.biathlonworld.com 12.03.2006 Pursuits In today’s Pursuit among men the podium was absolutely the same as in the Sprint race. Ole Einar from Norway became the winner again, silver went to Frenchman Raphael Poiree, bronze – to Carl Johan Bergman from Sweden. Sergei Tchepikov was again the best Russian ranking 11th (1 0 1 0). Dmitri Iarochenko 15th (0 0 0 0), Nikolay Kruglov 21st (0 0 0 0), Sergei Rozhkov 37th (0 2 0 0), Andrei Makoveev 41 (1 3 0 1), Maxim Tchoudov 45 (2 2 1 3). Sandrine Bailly (France) dominated in the women Pursuit. Second finished German Kati Wilhelm, third her teammate Katrin Apel. Irina Malgina finished 15th (0 0 2 0), what was the best result of Russian team. Anna Bogaliy-Titovets 19th (0 0 0 0), Natalia Guseva 34th (0 0 0 0). For more detailed information and complete result list go to www.rbu-biathlon.ru and www.biathlonworld.