Whereas the US continues to seek for its first gold medal, Germany is having no hassle discovering the highest of the rostrum.
Denise Herrmann secured Germany’s second gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics along with her efficiency in Monday’s ladies’s biathlon 15km particular person occasion.
Herrmann’s successful time of 44:12.7 was 9.4 seconds forward of France’s Anais Chevalier-Bouchet and 15.3 seconds forward of Norway’s Marte Olsbu Roeiseland.
The 33-year-old Herrmann gained a bronze medal within the 2014 Video games throughout a cross-country snowboarding occasion, however she turned a full-time biathlete in 2016. After her first biathlon Olympic gold, it is secure to say the transfer has paid off.
4 American ladies competed within the occasion, with Deedra Irwin main the best way in seventh place out of 89 athletes. Clare Egan was thirty ninth, Joanne Reid was 57th and Susan Dunklee was 63rd for the U.S.
Staff USA has nonetheless by no means gained a medal in any males’s or ladies’s Olympic biathlon occasion courting again to its trendy inception in 1960.