The world champion Ivan Tcherezov has won Volga" car In Uvat at the Russian competitions for the Tumensk`s region governor`s prize a Men 12,5 km Pursuit was held. Ivan Tcherezov, a world champion of the year 2005 from Udmurtia, confidently won the race. He started with number 3 on his bib, 10 seconds behind the winner of the Sprint Sergei Konovalov from Perm`. Shooting flawless and being fast on the track Ivan Tcherezov finished first and won the trophy of the governor`s competitions. His advantage over Vladimir Bersenev, who ranked second, was almost 2 minutes. Let us remind that in March in Khanty-Mansiusk Tcherezov won gold medal in the Mixed Relay at the World Championships and has just finished the season in Uvat adding one more title of the champion of Russia to his collection. Alexei Kobelev ranked third in that Pursuit race. In the Women Pursuit won Yulia Makarova from Labitangi. The main trophy of the competitions - the Volga" car - she won in a hard battle. According to the results of the Sprint Makarova started the 10 km race with 4 shooting sessions from third position. After second shooting session Irina Malgina from Khanty-Mansiusk became the leader. Before the last standing stance she was a whole half-minute ahead of Makarova. Unfortunately she had two errors and was no longer the leader. Now it was Yulia Makarova who downed quickly all of her targets and headed the race. Malgina was only 7 seconds behind and both biathletes, who are also members of the National team, continued their duel till the last meters. Makarova was able to ensure her lead and finally ranked 1st, 0,4 seconds ahead of Malgina. So Makarova became the champion of Russian 2005 in the Pursuit. Malgina, who started the race with number 4 on her bib, became the silver medalist. Olga Anisimova ranked third. From: NewsProm.