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Bendika achieves best ever result for Latvia in women's biathlon
BC, Riga, 08.02.2016.Print version
Baiba Bendika finished in overall fifth place in the 7.5 km spring at the Biathlon World Cup stage in Canmore on Friday – the best ever result in history by a lady biathlete from Latvia.
This was the best result in Bendika's career, who made all her shots and also qualified for Saturday's mass start event, informs LETA.
In the mass start she was 22nd.
Olena Pidhrushna, who shot clean, finished the race in first place. Her time of 19:56.9 put her 7.5 seconds ahead of Poland's Krystyna Guzik who also shot clean. Third went to Italy's Dorothea Wierer with one penalty, 12.4 seconds back.
With the good performance in the race, Bendika has moved up to 57th place in the Biathlon World Cup standings.