Biathlon

Salzburg – Slovenia’s Tim Farčnik has been appointed to the executive board of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) at their 15th Ordinary Congress in Salzburg, Austria, the Slovenian Ski Association (SZS) said.

Farčnik will join five other members of the executive board in the 2022-2026 period.

Athletes at the Beijing Olympics have flooded organizers with complaints about extreme training and start conditions, quarantine rules and food.

Temperatures drop to -20 degrees, and the bare hills do not stop the wind and often the feeling is minus 30 degrees Celsius.

If the lockdown is extended, physical education teachers and sports professionals will have to put to use all their creativity skills and imagination and think of exercise games for children, said for Horizont Before Noon radio show Joanna Dochevska, Chair of the Management Board of the Association for the Development of Bulgarian Sport.

Raluca Stramaturaru scored Romania's best performance at the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang (South Korea), on February 13, with her 7th place in women's luge.

At least 19 athletes will be included in the Bulgarian delegation at the XXIII Winter Olympics in PyongChang '18 (9-25 February). The composition was endorsed by the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, and it could additionally include athletes who eventually manage to meet the norm by the end of the month.

Minister of Youth and Sport Krasen Kralev met with Italian entrepreneur Paolo Bertona, who presented him with an ambitious project for the construction of a modern complex for skiing in winter sports and biathlon in Borovets and Samokov.

Vladimir Iliev won the gold in the Biathlon European Championship in Poland.

The 29-year old competitor from Troyan triumphed in the 10-km sprint, while Krasimir Anev completed the excellent performance of Bulgarians in Duszniki Zdroj with a bronze medal.

For Anev, this is the second medal in the championship after winning the silver in the 20 km individual competition.

Bulgarian biathlete Vladimir Iliev won bronze medal at the men's 15-kilometre mass start of the European biathlon championship held in Tyumen, Russia on Sunday.

Iliev made two penalties in the shooting, one each in the second and third rounds and finished in 38:29.0 minutes.

The Bulgarian finished 8.5 seconds behind the winner from Germany Florian Graf.

Bulgaria's biathlete Krasimir Anev won a silver medal at the Biathlon European Championship on Sunday, which is taking place in the town of Otepaa, Estonia.

Anev finished second in the men's 12.5 kilometer pursuit, winning his eighth individual prize at a continental championship in his professional career, daily Dnevnik reports.