Young biathletes from Grodno and Mogilev regions became the winners of "Snow Sniper"

March 7, Minsk /BELTA/. The teams of Mogilev region (younger age group) and Grodno region (older age group) became the winners of the final of the republican competitions among children and teenagers in biathlon, cross-country skiing and air rifle shooting "Snow Sniper" for the prizes of the Presidential Sports Club in the team event, reports a BELTA correspondent. First, the future stars of biathlon competed in accuracy in the shooting range, and then showed their speed in cross-country skiing races over a distance of 3 km. Moreover, the competition on the Minsk roller ski track was very serious - for example, the winner and the silver medalists in the boys' race of the older age group were separated by only 0.4 seconds. According to specialists, this season the young athletes pleased with their results in both shooting and skiing training, seriously announcing their potential to representatives of three sports at once - shooting, cross-country skiing and biathlon. Based on the sum of results from two competition days, Olga Petrochenko (Mogilev region) and Roman Chepyzhov (Minsk region) were the best in the younger age group, while Anzhelika Kudinova (Mogilev region) and Maksim Kislyak (Grodno region) took first place among the older participants. In the overall team standings, the teams of Mogilev, Minsk and Vitebsk regions took the podium places in the younger group, and in the older group - Grodno, Mogilev and Minsk regions. It should be noted that each of the 196 participants of the final, regardless of their place, received sets of ski equipment, souvenirs and memorable prizes from the Presidential Sports Club, as well as other organizers of the competition. Among them are the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Education, the Minsk City Executive Committee, the Belarusian Voluntary Sports Society "Dynamo", the National Olympic Committee, as well as the Belarusian Federations of Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing and Shooting Sports. -0-