Japanese sportsmen celebrate victory in biathlon - Asiad-2011
15:41, 4 February 2011
TALDYKORGAN. February 4. KAZINFORM /Sandugash Duisenova/ Bronze winner of the 7th Asian Games - Japanese Nagai Junji has won an individual biathlon race today. The race length is 20 km and it includes 4 shooting ranges.
Japanese athlete needed 1 minute and 41 seconds to cover the distance where he committed only one miss.
Silver winner of the Games Chinese Ren Long finished second; he had four misses one at each shooting range. Chinese sportsman trailed by 1 minute and 12 seconds at the finish.
Another representative of Chinese biathlon Li Zhonghai who had three misses was third and lost to the second time 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
Kazakhstan's sportsman Alexander Chervyakov had seven misses in total.