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Bergman delights Swedish home crowd with biathlon win
Dec 2, 2011, 16:42 GMT
Ostersund, Sweden - Carl Johan Bergman beat the Norwegian favourites in front of a Swedish home crowd on Friday when he won a second biathlon World Cup race almost six years after his first.
Bergmann, 33, hit all 10 targets in the shooting range of the 10km sprint and clocked 24 minutes 22.5 seconds on the floodlit course. His only World Cup victory until Friday dated back to a sprint race in March 2006 in Kontiolahti, Finland.
World Cup champion Tarjei Boe trailed by 7.6 seconds in second place with perfect shooting, and two-time Olympic champion Emil Hegle Svendsen was 13 seconds off the pace after missing one target.
Martin Fourcade had to settle for fourth after winning the opening 20km race on Wednesday but retained the World Cup lead with 103 points.
The women's sprint is scheduled for Saturday and the pursuits, based on the sprint results, are on Sunday to complete the Ostersund season-opener.
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