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The women's individual race of the first leg of the World Cup in Pokljuka ended on a fantastic result for the Ukrainian team. Immediately, four Ukrainian women showed results in the Top 20, and the leader of the team Julia Jim won the first personal victory of the career at the World Cup.
The night before, when the female start-up appeared, many were surprised by the late start figures. Julia Jimmy and Elena Pidgrushnaya . The coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team probably hoped that towards the end of the race, the air temperature would drop below freezing and the Pokljuka track would be frozen. In fact, this did not happen, but because of the tactical advantage over their rivals, Jim and Pidgrushnaya managed to get a decent result.
From the 94th number, Jim was not very fast on the track in the early laps, but showed 100% accuracy on the shooting lines. . The Ukrainian came in 7th place and lost to Acting leader Polka Monika Choinish in 49 seconds. And if for the six girls who were ahead of Julia, the last frontier was becoming a stumbling block, the Ukrainian would not flinch. After making five precise shots, the Olympic champion left the leader of the border in front of him for 15 seconds still Hoynish.
The question was: could Yulia keep the advantage on such a broken track? Already on the first cut after the shot, Jim had more than two seconds ahead on Hoinish. Not sparing the vocal chords, the Ukrainian was trained by almost all the coaches that were lying along the track. The installation of Slovenian personal trainer Jim Urosh Velepts was taken over by the senior coach of the National Women's Team of Ukraine Andrey Prokunin and a little further, other Slovenian and Ukrainian coaches were put in touch. It worked! Jim managed to add, and the last segment of the distance was stronger than the Polish. The advantage of the Ukrainian finish was 6 seconds. It is the first victory of Ukraine at the stages of the World Cup, after the gold medal of Elena Pidgrushnaya at the sprint, at the Kenmore stage in 2016.
Silver participated in an individual race for a Polish Monika Choinish who works this year under the direction of the Ukrainian coach Nadezhda Belova . And the young Czech woman of Marketa Davydov won bronze for the first time in her career.
In the same way that Elena Pidgrushnaya, another Ukrainian, missed the first fire. turn, do not deceive yourself anymore. The Ukrainian left the 17th for the last lap, but managed to complete and finish the race in 15th place, overtaking two teammates – Anastasia Merkushina and Julia Zhuravok . Note that after finishing the race, Pidgrushnaya waited for Julia Jim on arrival and congratulated her on her victory.
Anastasia Merkushina also had a good race, which resulted in a penalty in 16th position. Julia Zhuravok, with a zero in the count of the failures, became the 20th. Unfortunately, she was unable to score points Vita Semerenko who demonstrated the 41st result.
Note that due to the success of the Ukrainian women in the individual race, our women's team was at the top of the overall Nations Cup standings. For her part, Julia Jim, at the start of Saturday's race, will be released in the yellow jersey of the leader of the World Cup.
World Cup. Pokljuka, Slovenia. Individual race, women. Results:
1. Julia Jima, Ukraine (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 43: 06.6
2. Monica Hoenish, Poland (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) +5.9
3. Marketa Davydov, Czech Republic (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) +16.5
] …
15. Elena Pidgrushnaya, Ukraine (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) +1: 12.0
16. Anastasia Merkushina, Ukraine (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) +1: 12.4
20. Julia Zhuravok, Ukraine (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) +1: 32.8
41. Vita Semerenko, Ukraine (0 + 1 + 1 + 0) +3: 13.6 [19659003] The complete results of the race are available here.
The video of the race is available here.
Recall, in the men's individual race, the victory was won by Marten Fourcade and the Ukrainian Sergey Semenov finished in sixth position.
The men's sprint will take place on Friday, December 7th. the race.
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