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The first Russia's hunting biathlon championship at Novosibirsk Biathlon Complex. Hunting biathlon is peculiar since the athletes take a 3 km race on ordinary hunting skis with soft binding and shoot only at one firing position using 12 calibre plain-barrel guns without optics.
- Categories: Sports
- Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
- Event date: 15.03.2008
- Date published: 15.03.2008
- Author: Valery Titievsky
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3636x2781px, 3.6Mb