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Winter sports center
“The pearl of Siberia”
Data
Location Russia Mitschurino , Oblast Tjumen
owner Oblast Tjumen
operator State autonomous institution of the Oblast Tjumen: regional winter sports center “The Pearl Siberia”
(State Autonomous Institution of the Tyumen Region “Regional Center for Winter Sports” Pearl of Siberia “)
opening 2009
Spectator places Stadium: 5500
Route: 1000
Events

56,94649 65,188937 Coordinates: 56 ° 56 ′ 47.4 ″ N , 65 ° 11 ′ 20.2 ″ O

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The Winter sports center “The Pearl Siberia” ( Russian Tyumen Regional Center for Winter Sports “Pearl of Siberia” ) is a biathlon complex built in 2009 in the Russian Oblast Tjumen.
From the 2016/17 season, Tjumen was supposed to take over Chanty-Mansijsk World Cup races for an indefinite period.

The winter sports center with the biathlon stadium is a good 40 km southwest of the Tjumen city center in the area of ​​the village of Mitschurino.

The stadium is at a height of 62 m , the highest point of the trail is up 113 m , the deepest point on 62 m . [first]

The biathlon center serves as a competition and training center for the Oblast Tjumen, but also enables athletes from other parts of Russia and other countries to train here. In addition to biathlon, you are currently preparing for the orientation of competitions in the cross -country skiing, summer biathlon, orientation run and cycling. The stadium has one A-license the basis for a implementation of races is within the framework of the biathlon world cup. [2]

main building [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The four-story main building directly at the start and finish area houses all rooms for the organization committee as well as other rooms for the processing of competitions such as doping control, a first aid station, the press center, the timing, the V.I.P. area and the commentator cabins. Two large grandstands are connected to the main building directly on the route.

Service center [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The service center is located opposite the main building on the other side of the start and finish area. There are the storage for the rifles of the athletes, the competition office and changing rooms.

Shooting range [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The shooting range is located directly in the stadium area between the main building and the service center and has 30 World Cup -suitable shooting tracks.

Cross -country [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The trails stretch to the forests to the east of the stadium. Depending on the competition, the route lengths and route profiles required by the IBU can be displayed via various routes. The trails are equipped with floodlights, which enables competitions in poor lighting conditions and at night.

Miscellaneous [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The wax cabins are located near the service center, behind this building the route for the ski test was also created. From the service center you can reach material control, the warm-up area and the “mixed zone” via a tunnel.

The 2014 World Biathlon World Championships were the first international competitions that took place in Tjumen. Two years later, the 2016 European Biathlon Championships followed, which were held as part of the 2015/16 IBU Cup.

In winter 2016/17, the first World Cup races should be held in Tjumen. In connection with the revelations of the second McLaren report, the Russian Biathlon Association returned to the IBU at the turn of 2016/17 the direction of the World Cup in Tjumen. The competitions were then held in the Finnish of the Finnish. [3] Since Tjumen was to take over Chanty-Mansijsk competitions for a longer period of time, races were planned for March 2018 as part of the biathlon world cup. Although a withdrawal of the World Cup event in Russia planned for 2018 was requested by athlete representatives and individual nations, the IBU stated in the orientation that a final decision in favor of the competitions in Tjumen fell on February 14, 2018. [4]

Already in December, the Canadian biathlon association had announced not to send its athletes to competitions in Russia, neither for the World Cup nor the IBU Cup. At the end of February 2018, the Czech and the US association also announced that they would boycott the competitions. The German Ski Association held a general boycott in the participation in the World Cup in Tjumen, DSV President Franz Steinle excluded a general boycott. The Ukrainian association, like the two -time Swedish Olympic medalist Sebastian Samuelsson, stayed away from the competitions. [5]

The world championships planned for 2021 were only awarded after the McLaren report became known to Tjumen. Due to the pressure by the public and many active athletes, the IBU asked the Russian biathlon association to voluntarily forego the focus of the competitions. However, this was rejected by the Russian association, and legal steps were to be considered against one -sided withdrawal by the IBU. [6] At the beginning of March 2017, the IBU announced that the World Cup was withdrawn from Russia and will be re -awarded at a 2018 Congress. [7]

  1. IBU Guide 2016/17, page 110f
  2. Winter Sports Centre „The Pearl of Sibiria“ On Eurobiathlon.csp72.com (English, Russian), accessed on July 7, 2017
  3. IBU VERLEGT WELTCUP Nach Kontiolahti on sportschau.de, accessed on July 7, 2017
  4. US biathletes also boycott the World Cup final in tjumen on FOCUS.de, accessed on February 24, 2018
  5. Biathlon association gives the green light for Tyumen boycott on sports.de, accessed on March 25, 2018
  6. Russian association does not want to return biathlon World Cup 2021 voluntarily. on Spiegel.de, accessed on July 7, 2017
  7. Doping scandal: Russians is withdrawn ( Memento from March 4, 2017 in Internet Archive ) on Handelsblatt.com, accessed on July 7, 2017