Sapporo Feb 23 (IANS) Kazakhstan dominated the biathlon field with two gold medals at the Asian Winter Games here on Thursday.
In the women s 7.5km Vishevskaya Galina of Kazakhstan took the gold in 20 minutes and 32.6 seconds. China s Zhang Yan who made a perfect shooting got the silver in 20:56.8 reports Xinhua news agency.
I shoot all the 10 targets but still a little behind of the girl from Kazakhstan. She was too fast to beat said Zhang.
Paikova Alina of Kazakhstan got the bronze in 21:23.2.
In the men s 10km sprint Kazakhstan s Savitskiy Yan timed 26 minutes 59 seconds to take the gold and his teammate Podkorytov Vassiliy snatched the silver in 27:14.2.
The bronze went to Tachizaki Mikito of Japan who timed 27:19.4.
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Kazakhstan dominates biathlon with two golds at Asiad
