Evgeny Garanichev

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MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Evgeny Garanichev won the mass-start at the distance of 15 km in the championship of Russia on biathlon.

The athlete overcame the distance in 38 minutes, 9.8 seconds back, with three penalties. Second place went to Petr Pashchenko (delay of 14.7 seconds; 1 miss), the third – Alexander Loginov (+34,4; 4).

Men’s mass start completed the competition program of the championship of Russia.