The Ukrainian national team won a medal already in the first race

of the European biathlon championship

, which started in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

"Bronze" in the individual race was won by Yulia Jima.

The leader of the women's national team of Ukraine covered 19 of 20 targets during the distance, making only one mistake.

In the end, this allowed her to take third place.

The victory with one penalty minute was won by the Italian Michela Carrara, who was ahead of Jim by 53.2 seconds.

"Silver" was taken by the German Liza Maria Shpark - she worked flawlessly on the shooting range and surpassed Yulia's result by only 5.5 seconds.

As for other representatives of Ukraine, Anna Krivonos became 16th, Anastasia Merkushina – 24th, Lyubov Kypyachenkova – 35th, and Olena Bilosiuk – 40th.

European biathlon championship 2023: results of the women's individual race 

1. Michela Carrara (Italy, 0+0+1+0) 44:14.7

2. Lisa Maria Spark (Germany, 0+0+0+0) +47.7

3. Yulia Jima (Ukraine, 0+1+0+0) +53.2

4. Selina Grotian (Germany, 0+0+0+2) +1:21.0

5. Vanessa Ginz (Germany, 0+0+0+1) +1:25.6

6. Tilda Johansson (Sweden, 0+0+2+0) +1:36.9

...

16. Anna Krivonos (0+0+1+0) +2:55.3

24. Anastasia Merkushina (1+1+0+1) +3:41.0

35. Lyubov Kypyachenkova (1+1+0+1) +4:52.5

40. Olena Bilosiuk (0+0+0+3) +5:06.0