Biathlonists from Krasnoyarsk Evgeny Ustyugov and Olga Medvedtseva won two gold medals for Russia during the weekends. Ustyugov was the best in mass-start for 15 km among men, and Medvedtseva ensured gold medals for all members of the relay race of 4 for 6 km.

As for Ustyugov, he hadn’t got any miss during the race and overcame the distance at a time of 35 min and 35, 7 sec. Marten Furkad from France was the second because of three penalty circles. He was 10, 5 sec behind our sportsman. The third place got Pavol Hurayt from Slovakia. – 16, 6 sec behind Ustyugov.

That day one more Russian biathlonist Olga Zaytseva won a silver medal. She finished the second in mass-start relay race for 12,5 km. Gold and bronze medals were taken by German biathlonists Magdalena Noyner and Simone Hausvald respectively. Olga Medvedtseva from Krasnoyarsk for some time was a leader without a single miss during the race, but lost because of speed. She was 21, 2 sec behind Noyner and got the fourth place.

Finally, on 23^rd February Russian team of biathlonists consisting of Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaly-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva and Olga Zaitseva became the best in relay race of 4 for 6 km and presented the third gold medal of Olympic Games 2010 for the national Russian team.