For the 32-year-old Charvátová, participation in the so-called butchery for the top thirty is rare. Last season, she didn’t make it into it even once, in the last five years she managed to do it only at the end of the winter before last in Canmore, Canada.
Now, thanks to her results, she was already close to participating on her trip to France. Although she fell to 18th place in the World Cup after the sprint and chase, which will be her number on the jersey, it was clearly enough to secure a start for the top 25 in the overall ranking.
She will start from the sixth row and will try to follow up on the carnage in Le Grand-Bornand from 2019, when she finished eleventh. Saturday’s fighter was the least successful race of the season for her, after falling right after the start in the first three shooting events, she recorded a total of six mistakes and mentioned that she was already feeling tired.
Two other Czech biathletes won their results directly in France. Markéta Davidová will drive from the ninth row with the number 27. Last winter, before problems with discs, she managed only the opening race in Kontiolahti, where she was tenth.
At the beginning of the new season, she has a good running form, in Saturday’s pursuit she recorded the ninth time on skis, but her shooting was inconsistent. She was annoyed at the three unshot targets during the first stand-up shooting. It shouldn’t be the very last start of the year for Davidová, she is on the starting list for the traditional exhibition at the Schalke stadium on December 28, together with Tomáš Mikyská.
Voborníková will start from the last tenth row with the number 28, who completed three races with a mass start last season and in the last one at Holmenkollen she took eighth place.
France’s Lou Jeanmonnot will ride in the yellow jersey as the leader of the women’s World Cup, who will be driven to another triumph by the home fans. The pre-Christmas program of the World Cup will close at 14.45 with the same men’s race.
