Biathlon The 15-year-old tube for Finnish men was broken during biathlon

Tero Seppälä reached the best position of his career so far in the World Biathlon Cup when he placed fifth in the chase race in Östersund, Sweden.

Seppälä, who started in 16th place in the pursuit, cleared the race for 12.5 kilometers and four shooting positions with one fine.

Norway won the race Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen before Sweden Sebastian Samuelssonia. French Emilien Jacquelin was third.

Michal Krcmar of the Czech Republic, who reached the fourth place, was ahead of Seppälä in the final round of the four men who finished 4–7.

Seppälä’s previous best place in the World Cup was the seventh sprint of the 2019–20 Nove Meston season.

The success of Sunday’s chase brought Finland to the top five in men’s biathlon for a long time, as the last time it was so close to the podium was Paavo Puurunen in the four-place finish of the 2006 Turin Olympics. With wood and Vesa in Hietalahti are the latest men’s prize-winners, Puurunen took bronze and Hietalahti silver at the 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk World Championships.

Seppälä, 25, the season started encouraging even before Sunday’s great performance. He had taken two 16th places in the sprint in his previous two races this season.

Before the start of the season, Seppälä spoke about the change in the coaching pattern: a Russian coach hero who coached the Finnish national team in 1998–2002 Anatoly Hovantsev leads a coaching team in the landscapes of Kontiolahti, to which Seppälä belongs.

“Hovantsev has seen so many coaches in his career that he knows the needs of the individual. I have increased the type of training, ”Seppälä told STT at the end of November.